Introduction to "I Like Your Tight Brows":
The fluorescent tubes in the high school classroom always made a soft buzzing noise in the afternoon. The first time Jiang Nian noticed Shen Huaian was when he saw him frowning at a physics question - his eyebrows were twisted into a shallow "chuan", and his eyelashes cast small shadows under his eyes. It was an expression of irritability, but she remembered it for many years.
He is always the number one in grade, the center of attention on the basketball court, and the one who secretly stuffs orange candies into her pencil case after evening study hall. There is a faded rabbit pendant hanging on her schoolbag, and there are drawn and crossed out rabbit heads hidden in his draft book. Some like it, like unspoken auxiliary lines, hidden in the solution to each problem.
It wasn't until he suddenly transferred schools and left behind a silver ring with a rabbit engraved on it and a vague "Wait for me" that Jiang Nian realized that the frowns she secretly traced hid a struggle she couldn't understand. The family arrangement was like an invisible wall, and he was forced to go to a place out of her reach, while she clutched the ring and spent countless nights in a daze looking at physics problems - it turned out that the most difficult thing was not the comprehensive mechanics problem, but the waiting across the mountains and sea.
Later, she was admitted to the university in his city and counted the sunset countless times on the Linjiang Bridge, finally waiting for that familiar figure. He said: "The third way to draw the auxiliary line is to take a detour and come to your side."
It turns out that if you like someone, you will feel sad when you see him frowning for you, and it will be sweeter to see him stretch out his eyebrows for you than solving all the problems. This is a story about waiting and rushing, about how two clumsy people use their youthful persistence to draw their own unique auxiliary lines.
Intention: Jiang Nian