"The last look he looked at me was a mixture of Mediterranean sunshine and rolling waves, like the sycamore light spots that fell on his eyelashes when he looked up under the balcony that summer."
Lin Xia will always remember the afternoon when she was seventeen years old. She and her sister were lying on the balcony, watching their new neighbor Gu Yanqi sitting in the shade of a tree reading a book. She whistled, and the boy's smile when he raised his head, she mistakenly thought it was for the sister beside her. This heartbeat that started from a misunderstanding became a rope that entangled the three people's youth.
In order to protect her from the gangster's wooden stick, Gu Yanqi received a heavy blow on the back of the head. When she woke up, the world was filled with only blurry light and shadow. His mother took him abroad overnight to treat his eyesight. His sister cried and held on to the car door to beg her to go with him. However, there were still unsent messages to Lin Xia in his smashed mobile phone.
Three years later, Lin Xia found the beachside villa with the address she had found. Gu Yanqi's eyes were still good and bad, but he could recognize her by the sound of her footsteps. Her sister stood aside, holding in her hand the Braille letter he had practiced countless times when he was blind. When Gu's mother finally relented and accepted her, the four of them boarded the yacht to celebrate, but they were hit by a sudden storm.
When the lifeboat could only carry one person, Gu Yanqi pushed Lin Xia, who could not swim, onto it. Before the waves swept him away, she heard him shout: "Stay alive."
On the shore, Lin Xia wanted to jump into the sea and follow him, but her sister slapped her hard: "Have you forgotten what you promised him?"
The blue that swallowed up Gu Yanqi became the coordinates of the rest of Lin Xia's life - she took his unread books and unspoken words to live the way he hoped, and finally understood that the smile under the balcony that year had always belonged to her only.
A story about youth, sacrifice and remembrance, written with the weight of love and life in the sea breeze and tears.
Intention: Interpret love with the sacrifice of young people, and prove it with the bond of sisters: remembering does not mean sinking, but moving forward with expectations.