Lime, sour, astringent.
Youth is 30% sweet, 70% sour and astringent.
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Shen Qingyan, a girl from an art school, often goes to a small restaurant to eat with her friends. Yang Yuning, the son of the restaurant owner, always had a bad face, talked little and was cold, but he took her in when she had nowhere to go that night.
Later I found out that it wasn't that he didn't know how to smile, but that he had put away his smile along with his guitar - he had a girlfriend, his childhood sweetheart Liu Chuqing.
The heartbeat of youth is unpredictable and unreasonable.
At first, she didn't know that she liked her, and neither did he. She kept the love she had never had in her heart, and he suppressed the heartbeat he had never had before.
Later, Liu Chuqing broke up with him.
He picked up the guitar again, but couldn't play a complete song.
They sat on the stone steps by the river.
She tilted her head and asked, "Do you need a girlfriend?"
He said "missing."
"Can you look at me?"
"Okay."
Afterwards, he played a complete song and found his complete self.
That summer was short.
Liu Chuqing is back. Reluctantly, they force each other to death.
The two families set a wedding date.
They met for the last time on the stone stairs by the river.
He bought two cups of taro-flavored milk tea, but she said she didn't like the taste.
He asked "What kind of flavor do you like?".
She said "lemony".
No lemon flavored milk tea, just lemonade.
Sour, bitter.
She didn't say "lemon flavor", she said "Yang Yuning".
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Some people stay in that summer, and some like to keep it in their hearts.