The midsummer wind passed through the century-old sycamore forest in A and blew the gauze curtain on the second floor of the library. Lin Zhixia stood on tiptoe to reach the "Collection of Birds" on the top shelf, but her fingertips missed it by half an inch. A slender hand stretched out from behind her, gently took down the book, and handed it to her. "Tagore said, 'Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers.'" A deep male voice sounded in my ears, like the tail note of a cello.
She turned around and ran into a pair of bottomless black eyes.
That was the first time she saw Shen Yan.
No one knows that Shen Yan has remembered her since she attended the A University Open Day as a high school student three years ago and smiled and said to her classmates under the cherry blossom tree, "This place is really like a fairy tale." He looked up her name, followed all her social activities, and even during her college entrance examination year, he silently eliminated all interference that might affect her performance.
He was like a guardian hiding in the dark, weaving an invisible web with his paranoia, just to protect her.
Lin Zhixia only thought of him as "the cold senior who she met occasionally". She likes to recite poems at the radio station, and her voice is as sweet as a spring; she will hold an umbrella for stray cats on rainy days, getting half of her shoulders wet; she will argue for the weak side in debates, with light in her eyes.
These bits and pieces are all engraved in Shen Yan's heart.
On a rainy night, Lin Zhixia stayed at school to rehearse a drama and missed the last train. She stood at the school gate worried, and a black Maybach parked silently in front of her.
The car window was lowered, and it was Shen Yan's unruffled face: "I'll see you off."
It was very quiet inside the car, with the only sound of raindrops hitting the windows. She mustered up the courage to ask, "Senior, do you... See me often?" His hand on the steering wheel tightened slightly, and his profile was cold and hard: "Coincidence." But in the rearview mirror, he couldn't hide the undercurrent surging in his eyes.
Their relationship quietly heated up through "coincidences" one after another. She fell ill with a fever, and the next day a box of fever-reducing medicine and a handwritten recipe appeared beside her bed;
She was nervous to participate in the speech contest. There was a boy in a white shirt sitting in the first row of the audience, his gaze was like an anchor, steadying her trembling heartbeat; she was depressed due to family changes, and the radio station received an anonymous letter, which contained a photo of her childhood taken at her family's manor, with the words on the back: "You have always been the brightest star." Until one day, she accidentally entered Shen Yan's apartment and saw that the study wall was covered with her photos - from high school to university, each one marked with the date and location.
In the center is an unfinished oil painting, in which she stands in the sun with a bright smile.
At that moment, Lin Zhixia finally understood that the seemingly indifferent senior had already carved her into her life with a silent madness. "Why me?" Her voice trembled slightly. Shen Yan stood in the shadow, finally taking off all disguises, and said in a hoarse voice, "Because you are Lin Zhixia. You are the only light in my dark world."
He never forced her, only asked: "Can I... Continue to look at you?"
Lin Zhixia did not flinch. She stepped forward and hugged him gently: "Don't look, I'm by your side."
From then on, there was a legend in A University: the cold and ascetic Senior Shen would remember every song she liked for Lin Zhixia; he would stand silently outside her classroom all night during her evening study hall; and he would immediately charter a private jet to fly to Iceland just because she said "I want to see the Aurora".
And Lin Zhixia also used her warmth to teach Shen Yan what love is - not possession, but side by side; not control, but protection.
She makes him understand that paranoia can be cured and loneliness will eventually be illuminated.
This is a story about secret love and redemption.
It was the paranoid midsummer that met the healing light.
It's the ultimate romance that goes both ways--
I have long understood the love you have hidden in my heart.
I am willing to walk into the cage you built for me, just to spend the rest of my life with you.
When the graduation ceremony bell rang, Shen Yan walked towards Lin Zhixia under the gaze of thousands of people, knelt down on one knee, and held a diamond ring inspired by summer flowers in his hand.
"Lin Zhixia, are you willing to let my paranoia become your destiny in life?"
The sun shines on them like a never-ending summer.
Intention: I like it very much
