The moonlight spread across the Pingjiang River, and 23-year-old Chen Jixun sat alone on the shore, with fireworks flickering at his fingertips. What floated was his unspoken love and his football dream shattered in the wind.
That year, heavy snow fell all over the small town in the south, and the teenagers were chasing snowballs in the snow. He held on to the hope of being a top student in No. 9 Middle School, and his heart was full of hot longing to play on the field. But the ticking sound in his mother's ward and the words "60,000 years a year" under the list of students with special talents crushed his dream. His back turned and left, hiding the helplessness and unwillingness of his entire youth.
Later, he met Xu Xia in the maple forest. She would hand over sweet cookies, chase him and ask math questions, and sit side by side with him in the warm sun in the afternoon when the leaves were rustling. He was heartbroken when he looked at her side face, but because of the inferiority complex in his heart, he never dared to say that he liked her. At the fork in the road between classes, he looked into her eyes, and finally silently let go of the hand that he almost held.
Now that the wedding is approaching, the messages from my fiancée on my phone are tender and trivial. Chen Jixun put out the cigarette butt, and as the evening breeze blew by, he seemed to hear the laughter in the snow again, and the unspoken confession in the maple forest. Those regrets eventually became the most sad footnotes in youth.
Intention: The unrequited desire in youth and the reconciliation with oneself.