Book title: "Love Letter on Page Nine"
Genre: Campus Youth / Sour Secret Love / Two-way Redemption / Warm HE
Core Theme: Youth is a hasty book and we meet on the same page. All the clumsy temptations and silent protections are written to you - the love letter that I dare not sign.
Protagonist setting:
· Xu Shian (Grade 3 science key class, 17 years old)
The top student in the grade, who looks cold and distant, always buttons his shirt to the first button, like a walking school rule. He has always been at the top of the honor list. He is an impeccable model student in the eyes of teachers and an unattainable academic god in the eyes of his classmates. What is less known is that he needs an invisible hearing aid in his right ear to hear the world clearly. This "imperfection" is carefully hidden by him. Every night, he secretly writes a science fiction novel. The protagonist is the only "irrationality" he allows himself to indulge in.
· Wen Mingqing (senior liberal arts class, 17 years old)
He seems to be a sunny and cheerful art student, the main player of the school basketball team, his random graffiti can attract onlookers, and he is always surrounded by friends. In fact, the family is broken and his father is an alcoholic. He relies on scholarships and weekend part-time jobs to support his studies and life. His smile is his most skillful disguise, but the album is full of gloomy and twisted lines. Only when you paint and run can you escape reality briefly. He has a dream that no one knows about: to be admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts and leave this small town forever.
Supporting cast portraits:
· Zhou Muye (male, sports student): Wen Mingqing's basketball teammate, tough but loyal, the first person to notice Wen Mingqing's worries.
·Lin Zhi (female, liberal arts class academic committee member): Xu Shian's cousin, lively and delicate, is the initial "bridge" and assist between the two.
·Chen Qing (female, Chinese teacher): Sensitive and tolerant, she understood the unsaid stories in Xu Shi'an's compositions and Wen Mingqing's paintings.
·Xu He (female, doctor, Xu's mother): Gentle and tough, she is the only person who knows the secret of her son's hearing and fully supports him.
·Wen Yuan (male, Wen's father): There is a heavy shadow in the story, which is the past that Wen Mingqing wants to escape from.
Lin Jianxia (female, friend Wen): Careful, the only person in the story who has a happy family, runs through both books
Classic scenes and symbols:
· Scene 1: Page 9 of the library
The two always met in the library on Wednesday afternoons and habitually walked to the same corner by the window. Xu Shian would lightly write a line of science fiction fragments with a pencil on the ninth page of the physics exercise book. Wen Mingqing drew Xu Shian's slumped profile on page nine of his sketchbook. They never exchanged the ninth page, but they shared the same sunshine and silence.
· Scene 2: Convenience store on a rainy night
The convenience store where Wen Mingqing works part-time. Late on Wednesday night, Mr. Xu Shian came in a little embarrassed because of the rain, bought a carton of milk, and sat quietly by the window until the rain stopped or Wen Mingqing got off work. He said it was because he "lost time during self-study". Wen Mingqing never pointed out the problem and would only secretly add an extra radish that he loved to eat in the oden.
· Symbol: Ginkgo and sunflower
Ginkgo (Xu Shi'an): Ancient, calm, and adaptable (corresponding to his overcoming hearing impairment). He always writes calculations or inspiration for novels on ginkgo leaves. Finally, he made a golden ginkgo leaf into a bookmark and gave it to Wen Mingqing, which read: "You gave my world sound and color."
Sunflower (Wen Mingqing): Chases the sun and has tenacious vitality (corresponding to his growth in adversity). Sunflowers began to appear in his paintings, and the gloom in his paintings gradually disappeared. His birthday gift to Xu Shi'an was a painting: a boy in school uniform sitting under a ginkgo tree, with sunshine on his shoulders, and a field of blooming sunflowers behind him.
· Keepsake:
Xu Shi'an: A pair of Bluetooth headphones, one for myself (to connect to a hearing aid), and the other for Wen Mingqing. "In this way, I can share half of the world I hear with you."
Wen Mingqing: A wooden basketball keychain carved by myself, rough but thoughtful. "Xu Shi'an, in whichever city you go to study in the future, I will take the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts there. This 'basketball' will help me find the way first."
Classic sentences:
· Xu Shi'an: "My world was originally a quiet experiment with set parameters. Until you, like an incalculable light, shined in arbitrarily, making all formulas invalid."
·Wen Mingqing: "I ran desperately, trying to get rid of the shadow called 'past' behind me. Later I discovered that as long as I look in the direction of you, the shadow will fall behind me."
·Xu Shi'an (under the ginkgo tree after the graduation ceremony): "Wen Mingqing, I have finished writing my novel. On the last page, the protagonist found his star. In reality... Are you willing to check my answer?"
·Wen Mingqing (smiling and putting on the earphone): "Classmate Xu Shi'an, I received your voice. The signal is clear and will never drop out."
Final Act (HE):
Three years later, Beijing. The ginkgo trees in early autumn have just turned golden.
The cafe next to the Academy of Fine Arts has bright floor-to-ceiling windows. Xu Shi'an, who has become an architecture student, is revising the design drawings in his notebook. He has a copy of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Stars" in his hand. The bookmark is an old ginkgo leaf.
The doorbell rang softly, and the tired Wen Mingqing pushed the door open. He had just finished his sketching trip in Yunnan, his skin was tanned, and his smile was brighter. He walked straight to Xu Shi'an and took out a small oil painting from his backpack - ginkgo and sunflowers intertwined in the sunshine.
"Hey, Xu Daba," he pushed the painting in front of him, his eyes bright, "In the future you designed, did you leave me a place in the studio?"
Xu Shi'an raised his head, took off one of his headphones, and moved his eyes from the painting to his face, his cold brows turning into a gentle smile. He picked up the book and turned to page nine. There was no longer a science fiction fragment, but a line of handwriting:
"Answer: Yes. From beginning to end."
Outside the window, ginkgo leaves slowly fell, and the sun was just right. Their story, starting from the ninth page of a book about hasty youth, finally became the most determined prologue to each other for the rest of their lives.
Concept: Youth is rushed, but there are always people by your side
