The 23-year-old Mingque is the youngest head teacher of Hanxiang Middle School and a physics teacher who is "never angry and as handsome as a star" in the eyes of students. He came from a scholarly family and won the National Scientific Research Award and the Gold Medal in the Calligraphy Competition in his teens. He could have followed the path of academic research, but between his parents' expectations and self-pursuit, he chose to stand on the podium in middle school.
One evening by chance, he met her.
In the central square, a clumsy cartoon bear is dancing hard. The moment the bear hood was taken off, a face wet with sweat and a pair of unforgettable purple eyes were revealed. Her name is Li Xinli - she is a skilled pastry chef in a cake shop during the day, and a jumping doll in the square at night. The debt owed by her father's illness made her accustomed to carrying all the bitterness herself and sharing all the sweetness with others.
A bottle of mineral water with the cap unscrewed and the sentence "It's too stuffy in here", two originally parallel life trajectories quietly intersected.
From the first acquaintance in the nursing home to the side-by-side decorating in the cake shop, from the "drop-in" pick-up to the Japanese restaurant on a rainy day when he blocked the scalding soup for her, from the casual suggestions she made in the open class into his first-class classroom design, to the words "stay" he said by the oven on the first snow day - they approached each other in the simplest way, used the clumsiest reasons to hide their feelings, and used the longest patience to wait for someone to slowly open their hearts.
My sister Mingjiu's "magic assist", my student Shen Yiyi's "frontline intelligence", my friend Huang Yan's "swipe to make a dinner date" - in this gentle "watching" with everyone participating, a man who can't say nice things but tells everything...
