At the end of summer in a small northern town, Chen Yan met Lu Xingye at the second-hand bookstore at the end of the alley.
From then on, it was the companions under the street lamp at the end of the alley, the half piece of watermelon shared in the evening breeze, and the note secretly hidden in the book - in the delicate day and night, the feelings slowly spread in the smoke of fireworks.
But gossip from neighbors always spreads faster than the wind, and the sighs of the elders make people unable to lift their heads. Those unspoken "likes" did not survive the winter woven by the secular world.
On the last day that Lu Xingye left, Chen Yan stood at the station holding an unopened letter, watching the northbound train taking away the boy who belonged to the big city, while he stayed where he was, guarding the spring and autumn of the small town, and never waited for the same evening breeze again.
Purpose: City life, secular ethics