["Expired Sugar" is also known as "Sweet Scab"]
[The neighbor also wrote it]
"If there is a next life, will you love me? Jiang Shu."
"Lin Jianqing, in the next life, you don't want to like me anymore..."
————
QAQBE is here again.
[BGM]: "Re-enacting Memories" and "Leave My Dependence"
(Adapted BGM)
[Food Guide]:
·Two male protagonists | Campus | Secret love becomes a sorrow | BE warning
·Cold and restrained attack Jiang Shu x Gentle and patient Lin Jianqing
·The sourness runs throughout, the sugar has a knife in it, and the stamina is huge. Please prepare tissues.
Copywriting:
He is the last bit of sweetness on the tip of his tongue, and a wound in his heart that will never heal.
"Tell me, what does sugar taste like if it's expired?"
"Probably... It's so sweet that it's bitter."
The sweetest candy in Lin Jianqing's life was the one Jiang Shu casually handed over in the afternoon of his third year of high school. The peeled candy wrapper shimmered, and the sweetness spread on the tip of his tongue, just like the young man wearing a white shirt with clear eyes, unexpectedly crashing into the softest corner of his heart.
From then on, his secret love became a long and silent one-man show. He collected every casual glance and plain greeting from Jiang Shu, like collecting candies wrapped in beautiful wrappers, carefully and treating them like treasures. He thought it would be a long time, long enough for him to have the courage to wait until the right time to give away this sweetness.
"Jiang Shu, if... I mean if, one day I am gone, will you miss me?"
"Don't say stupid things." The other party didn't even raise his head, his tone was always calm, and even a little distant.
Until the verdict of fate suddenly fell - those physical warnings that he ignored finally merged into a ruthless diagnosis. All the "candy" he accumulated quietly expired in time before he could give it away.
When the bitter taste of medicine completely replaced the sweetness in his imagination, and when the paleness of the hospital covered the beauty of youth, Lin Jianqing finally understood that some secret loves were destined to not be able to wait for a response. The last thing he could do was to leave quietly without disturbing his life at all.
And Jiang Shu never thought that Lin Jianqing, who was always following behind him quietly with clear eyes, would really disappear completely like a "silly remark". Until he accidentally opened the old diary belonging to Lin Jianqing. It was densely packed with information about him and his "candy" and the grand and desperate love that no one knew about.
The candy wrappers are still bright, but the sugar has gone bad.
He finally tasted the belated, heart-wrenching sweetness and bitterness.
——Later, he tried all the brands of candy, but could no longer find the first and most deadly sweet in his memory.
"I tasted expired sugar."
"But Lin Jianqing, where are you?"
"I hid it from everyone and secretly loved you for a long time until my life expired."
"Some love doesn't wait until it's overdue. Some regrets never come back."
Intention: I hope that secret love will have a beautiful result. We should all be born toward the sun and be free and brave.