This is a story about "being seen".
Bae Zhaoxu is the kind of person who has a very low sense of existence. On the day when he transferred to his second year of high school, he sat in the last row by the window, with the sun falling on the back of his hands. He wrote four words on the edge of the textbook - "Don't screw up again." He thought he would come and go quietly like before, leaving no trace.
But Ji Yanqing saw him.
It wasn't the kind of condescending gaze, it was the gaze that squatted down and was level with him. Ji Yanqing would lend him his pen, put down a pack of tissues when he failed in an exam, turn around when everyone was laughing, and say, "You don't have to talk if you don't want to, but you don't have to push me away." His approach is not a dramatic rescue, but a companionship day after day - a dumpling, the sentence "I will teach you", and a smiling face drawn on the draft paper.
Pei Zhaoxu thought that as long as he hid far enough away, no one would come in. Ji Yanqing told him with actions: No need to hide, I am here.
Later, Pei Zhaoxu learned that the man who always smiled also had his own rainy days. And all he can do is do what Ji Yanqing did for him back then - squat down and wait for the weather to clear with him.
From the fall of their sophomore year to the summer of their senior year, from No. 32 To No. 4, From "Stop screwing up" to "I'll be where you are", they spent two years teaching each other one thing -
You are not a shadow, you are also a light.
May the stars be with you.
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