Green Gardenia

Youth is a hasty book. We read it again and again with tears in our eyes. Seventeen-year-old Jiang Yue has always believed that youth should be like her favorite gardenia - white, fragrant, blooming carefree in the sun. As the "little sun" in the class, she has her best friend Liang Wanying who grew up with her, her childhood sweetheart Shen Yu who is gentle and protective, and a group of friends who laugh and play. Until that summer when the cicadas were chirping noisily, she bumped into the boy wearing a black T-shirt that had been washed white - Jiang Xiaoye. He was a well-known "problem student" in the school, fighting, skipping classes, and writing endless reviews. But when he bent down to pick up her scattered notebooks, when he quietly flipped through picture albums in the corner of the library, and when the smart bookshelf he designed was named "Zhiyu", Jiang Yue discovered that this seemingly unruly young man had an unknown starry sky hidden in his heart. They got closer because of the science and technology innovation competition, and touched each other's world in discussions. He taught her to be brave and she made him soft. In the season of gardenias blooming, two completely different souls quietly approach each other, and the seemingly absent gazes and casual touches of fingertips have become the sweetest secrets of youth. However, the love of youth is like gardenias in early summer - sweet but astringent, beautiful but easy to wither. Different family backgrounds, successive misunderstandings, and unspeakable difficulties brought this relationship to an abrupt end in the most beautiful years. When he chose to leave without saying goodbye, when she discovered the unspoken truth, the pure gardenia finally fell into mud in the wind and rain. Many years later, when they reunited by chance in a strange city, he was already a budding designer, and she was a professional elite in her own right. Time has washed away the greenness of youth, but it cannot wash away the fragrance of gardenia in my memory. But, can the missed time be regained? Can broken relationships be mended? This is an ignorant love that started on campus, a love poem written for youth. It reminds us of ourselves in school uniforms, the panic and sweetness of our first heartbeat, the unspoken regrets, and the people who stayed forever in the summer when gardenias bloomed. Classic quotations: - "Youth is like a heavy rain. Even if you catch a cold, you still look forward to getting wet again." - "Some stories have their endings written before they even begin." - "What I like when I am young is that even putting the homework books together makes me feel happy." - "Later I finally learned how to love, but unfortunately you have already disappeared into the sea of people." "Green Gardenia" - dedicated to our simple yet complex, beautiful yet regretful youth. Purpose: Maybe I've read too much literature about youth pain.