Paper Stars

[Campus Youth·Growth] ------------------ In the fall of 2018, Lin Xunan entered Minghua Middle School. Little did she know that this day would be remembered for a long time. The first time she met Chen Zan, she mistook his name. He corrected her with a smile, "The word Zan next to the word "" means "beautiful". She thought it was just a word. However, she later learned that some people's names would grow roots on the paper. Once you write it, it will pierce your heart. By the time you find out, it can't be removed. At that time, they thought that youth was a time when they were dried into mummies and still had to eat sweets together. They didn't know at that time that some people would get separated and some of the candies would be finished. But she remembered the taste of that candy for many years. Three years of junior high school, more than a thousand days and nights. She wrote a lot of words on the draft paper. The one that appears the most is "Zan". Later it was Chengnan Middle School. After three years of high school, they were still in the same school, but no longer in the same class. Meeting in the corridor, nodding, smiling, rubbing shoulders. Like everyone else, like someone you just know. She would still write that word on the scratch paper, but she would no longer show it to anyone. In 2018, she broke a star, thinking it would shine for a lifetime. In 2024, when the college entrance examination was over, she packed up her old things and saw that the star had been squashed. Paper-folded stars are inherently flat. But it shined. On the draft paper when she was 15 years old, in the corridor of Chengnan Middle School, in all the moments when she didn't dare to look up at him... It has lit up. Youth is a time when there is no time, no time to write the words correctly, no time to say the words, no time to say goodbye properly. But she has no regrets. Because—— "Some stars are destined to be made of paper and cannot last forever. But they have truly illuminated my youth." ------------------ The trilogy, the same Chengnan Middle School, the same sunset, the same gust of wind. There are no secrets in the south of the city, only stories in the south of the city. Some stories are very short, but they are enough to be remembered for a lifetime. ------------------ [Reading instructions] 1. Feelings are two-way, but two-way does not mean the ending. Some are two-way, stopping at I know you like me, and you also know that I like you, but neither of us said it. 2. "Paper Star" is Lin Xunan's growth story. It is not about whether she is with him or not, but about how she digests a relationship that has no ending and then moves on. 3. The paper-folded star is originally flat, but it shines brightly. Some feelings are destined to be fruitless, which does not mean that they are meaningless. It truly illuminates a person's youth, and that is enough. Concept: Those indefinable relationships precisely define our youth.