The Sorbet Melted

Youth Campus｜1V1｜Reality Direction｜BE In the summer of his second year in junior high school, Zhou Peng treated a girl named Jiang Shan to a square of ice cream for three yuan and five balls, including strawberry, cantaloupe and chocolate. When she took her first bite, Zhou Peng knew she was finished. Later they spent time together and had a really good time together. What happens next? The sorbet has melted and summer is over. People who got lost in the crowd were never found again. In 2026, at the end of the class reunion, someone took out his mobile phone and looked through old photos. I turned to a group photo in the square. Five teenagers were huddled together and laughing, with fireworks exploding in chaos behind them. Someone in the corner made a sound, very softly. It was Zhou Peng. He enlarged the photo and looked at it for a long time. Someone came over and said, "Isn't this Jiang Zhi's sister? What's her name? Jiang Shan... Did you guys... Later?" Zhou Peng didn't say anything, put his phone on the table, and walked out of the box. At the end of the corridor, he took out a cigarette but didn't light it. Just holding it in his mouth, he stood in the drafty corridor in winter for a whole cigarette. Someone in the box was singing "Later", and a line of lyrics floated out: "How do you remember me, with a smile or in silence." Zhou Peng put the unlit cigarette in his pocket, opened the door and went back. He smiled and said: "I lit it wrong, this cigarette is tasteless." No one saw his red eyes.