My name is Jia Beiyue, photographer. I save all the people I like into folders, name them by date, and never open them.
I have kept Lin Yi's folder for three years. She returned the only picture of a frontal face, with the words on the back: "The photo was taken very well. But you still didn't get the focus."
Later I met Xiaohai. She was eating noodles, picking green onions, and asked me what the aperture was. I changed her folder from "Noodle Shop Girl" to "Liu Yu" and then to "Xiao Hai". She waited for me for a whole semester, read all the archives for me, and then left.
Before leaving, she said: "You have the focus. But I am no longer in the viewfinder."
She changed the avatar of Hai. She doesn't change the gray sea, she waits for the blue one.
Later I changed the folder to "August". Her birthday is in April. August was the hottest time in Hearth City before I met her.
She doesn't know. That was the most special month for me.
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I cried when I saw it, as if I was seeing myself when I was young
I cried when I saw it, as if I was seeing myself when I was young