Su Wan will always remember the temperature when Lu Shiyan stuffed the mint candies into her frozen red hands in the winter of her senior year of high school. They were at the same table at that time, and he would always put candy next to her thermos cup during morning study hall, saying, "Take one, so you won't feel sleepy when reading early." When she couldn't solve a math problem and burst into tears, he would hand her candy and a piece of paper full of problem-solving steps, and his fingertips would gently rub against the back of her hand, as if he was afraid of disturbing some fragile treasure.
She put all the transparent candy wrappers in a cookie box, and when she was at home on the weekends, she folded them one by one into a small boat, with "Lu Shiyan" written on the boat that only she could understand. At that time, they agreed to attend a university in the same city, and she even secretly checked out the mint candy store near that university.
But with only two months left before the college entrance examination, Lu Shiyan's mother suddenly came to the school to go through the transfer procedures. Su Wan went to look for him in his empty seat, only to see an unopened mint candy pressed in the belly of the table. On the back of the candy wrapper was his scrawled handwriting: "When I come back, I will bring you lots and lots of candies."
This wait is six years. Su Wan has changed from a college student to a professional. There is no more candy wrapper in the cookie box. She has gradually become accustomed to buying sugarless mints, but she always feels that the sweetness that warmed her heart is missing.
Until one day when she was working overtime until late at night, she was buying water at the convenience store downstairs of the company, and when she turned around, she ran into a familiar embrace. The other party handed over a mint with a familiar package, and said with a husky smile in his voice: "I'm sorry, but - do you still remember me? I searched for a long time before I found out that you work here."
Su Wan looked at the candy in his hand and suddenly remembered the warmth in his hands that winter. It turns out that some residual warmth will never be cooled by time, just like Lu Shiyan's thoughts hidden in mint candies, after so many years of wandering around, he still found her
The idea: to hide the abstract "like" in concrete details such as mints, candy wrappers, handwritten notes, etc., To show the delicacy and purity of youthful emotions - those unspoken confessions and secretly kept tokens are all deep feelings hidden in time, confirming that "love is never absent, but sometimes it arrives later."