In 2003, a small electronics factory in Yueqing, Zhejiang.
Lin Chun, the 26-year-old team leader, never speaks, and his eyes are like a dry well. No one knows that he has been looking for a girl named Xiaomei for four years, searching in more than 20 cities, wearing out the soles of his shoes, and turning his hair yellow by the sea breeze, just to make the words she left behind, "Be back soon," come true.
When Qinghong, a 21-year-old quality inspector, saw him for the first time, she thought he was strange:
He is obviously not much older than me, but he looks like an old man. He is cold to everyone, but he is so serious about his work that he is almost paranoid.
She began to intentionally block his group of products, deliberately sat next to him to eat at noon, and deliberately squatted down to draw circles with stones on the way to get off work. As she drew, the word "spring" appeared on the ground.
She used all the courage of a working girl to pry him off.
What was finally pried open was a wound that would never heal.
She saw five skirts hanging on the wall, one for each year, like five small coffins.
She saw the yellowed photo on the bedside. The girl in the photo was smiling, as big as a bubble gum.
She saw aluminum boxes filled with bubble gum bought from all over the country.
She finally understood that some people were not waiting for someone, but spending the rest of their lives burying a long-dead love.
Qinghong finally took away the box of bubble gum.
She opened one and put it in her mouth, tears streaming down her face.
It turns out that bubble gum can also be bitter.
This is the gentlest and cruelest story in the "Xiao Mei" universe.
It tells the story of how an ordinary girl falls in love with a man who has been exhausted by time;
It also tells the story that when you finally get close to the legendary "nine years of love", you will find that,
The so-called deep love is nothing more than two breathing corpses guarding each other's graves in the human world.
It is 24,000 words long, but the four words "love cannot be obtained" are written into the bone marrow.
After reading, there is only one sentence left:
"Excuse me, do you have any more bubble gum?"
"Where are the bubble gums now? It's all chewing gum."
The sound of the sugar bowl breaking resounded in 2003, and also resounded in the hearts of every reader.
Intention: "Onlookers can never truly enter a desperate love. They can only leave with thorns all over their bodies and cry in the end."