Summer Citrus Soda

In the afternoon when the chirping of cicadas marked the beginning of midsummer, the transfer student Jiang Huai walked into Lin Ji's seventeenth year old with a box of soda in his arms. "Classmate, do you want to try it? The new orange flavor." There were still water drops hanging on the ice-cold glass bottle. Lin Ji raised his cold eyes and saw the young man's smile that had been gilded by the sun, and his eyes filled with the heat of the entire summer. From then on, a wild citrus-flavored bubble was forced into his regular world. Everyone said that Lin Ji in the science class was an iceberg that could not be melted, and Jiang Huai in the liberal arts class was a wind that could not be caught. No one knows—— In the empty classroom after evening self-study, Jiang Huai would smile and move his face closer, breathing the sweet scent of orange candy: "Teacher Lin, I still don't know how to solve this question." On the sidelines of the basketball court, Lin Ji would silently open the third bottle of soda that was handed to him. The ice water slid over his Adam's apple, but what suppressed it was another kind of hot heartbeat. On the rooftop of the secret base, the shared headphone cord was wrapped around their fingertips. They hid under the shadow of the clouds and shared the same unspoken song. When Jianghuai's secret fell with a torn application form - the always enthusiastic young man seemed to be falling apart bit by bit in invisible places. And for the first time, Lin Ji put aside all calmness and restraint, clenched his wrist in the pouring rain, and said in a hoarse voice: "Why don't you include me in your future plans?" This is a story about salvation and self-healing. It is the roar of magma under the ice, the uncontrollable turbulent bubbles after the soda shakes, and two imperfect souls, clumsily colliding and approaching each other under the scorching heat of midsummer, and ultimately defining a whole youth for each other. Character sketch: Lin Ji (attack): A science genius who looks cold and distant, but is actually a guardian who buries all tenderness and paranoia deep inside. His world was a precise formula, until Jiang Huai brought an uncalculated accident. Jiang Huai (accepted): Like the never-ending summer sunshine, a literary young man who covers up the rainy season in his heart with a bright smile. It is a citrus soda that looks simple and refreshing, but every bubble contains little-known secrets. Story keywords: campus | two-way secret love | healing and redemption | youth growth | sweet and sour Intention: In our youth, we used the ice of pretending to be alienated to hide a hot earthquake about you. Later I realized that love is not about being someone's sun, but when my rainy season comes, you are willing to hold an umbrella and walk into the torrential rain to share the same humid weather with me. Therefore, all the unknown brokenness becomes the prelude to resonance.