"He looks at the whole world with a smile, but only secretly collects the fragments of one person."
There are two landscapes for Class 2 and Class 3 of high school.
One is called Shen Jinchen, with a crooked smile and cynical attitude. He is a legendary school bully who can stay at the top of his grade even though he skips classes and gets into fights.
One named Xia Zhiyang, sunny and cheerful, explosive at every turn, is the vice president of the literary club who is sharp-edged on the court and delicate and gentle in his essays.
No one knows that they have known each other for thirteen years.
No one knew that after Shen Jinchen left without saying goodbye five years ago and suddenly transferred back to another school, he used the most polite smile to draw an invisible gap between them.
Xia Zhiyang doesn't understand.
Why did Chenchen, who once carried him across three streets to see the emergency room, now looked at him like a stranger.
Why is it that Shen Jinchen is always the first one to show up when he is bullied, but after saving the person, he immediately returns to his lazy, indifferent smile.
Why was Shen Jinchen's mobile phone password the birthday of the puppy he had long forgotten and the two of them had raised together.
Shen Jinchen didn't say anything.
He smiled as he watched Xia Zhiyang running on the court, then turned around and blocked the troublemaker into the alley.
He casually "passed by" the corridor where Xia Zhiyang was punished by the math teacher and "conveniently" handed him a note filled with steps to solve the problem.
He looked through the photos secretly taken on his phone over and over again late at night, from the crying face nine years ago to the unsuspecting silhouette in the sun yesterday, holding his bangs and solving a math problem.
He collected this man for nine years, like collecting the light of an entire galaxy.
But he didn't dare to let any star know that his own wasteland had been burned by the fire of a prairie fire for thirteen years.
Until that sweltering midsummer night.
There was a sudden power outage during evening self-study. In the chaos, two things fell to the ground at the same time——
A cowhide notebook slipped out of Xia Zhiyang's schoolbag. Ginkgo leaf bookmarks were scattered on the floor, revealing that it was filled with love poems written in trembling handwriting.
A mobile phone fell out of Shen Jinchen's pocket. The screen lit up after the impact. The lock screen wallpaper was Xia Zhiyang's sleeping face, and the home screen was densely packed with photo folders of the same person.
The air froze.
The flashlight beam flickered in the darkness.
They looked at each other in the messy light and shadow, one was panicked, and the other's smile finally faded from his face.
It turned out that the confession poem that he thought no one knew had been written by another person in a more silent way for nine years.
It turned out that this protracted one-way escape was going in the wrong direction from the beginning.
"Shen Jinchen, what are you..." Xia Zhiyang's voice was trembling.
"Xia Zhiyang," Shen Jinchen interrupted him for the first time, his voice low and his smile gone, "Shut up."
He leaned down, in the chaos and darkness, and kissed the star that he had guarded and looked up to for thirteen years.
It turns out that all the rebelliousness is to hide a sincerity that I dare not express.
It turns out that all the sunshine and cheerfulness are to cover up a silent pain that has lasted for five years.
This summer, the blackout classroom, the scattered poetry manuscripts, the photo album that has been secretly hidden for nine years, and the kiss that finally cannot be concealed——
All the unspoken confessions, all the memories that pretend not to be remembered, all the heated gazes and evasions over the years will find the final chord in this hastily written "Midsummer Night Confession Poem".
Purpose: "True bravery is the courage to take off your armor for the one you love, and the courage to remain pure during the long wait."
