Original title: "Moonlight and Setaria"
Xu Huan agreed to pretend to be "Teacher Yu" to take that piano lesson for only one reason - he heard that the student's name was Jiang Ji.
Many years ago, in the hospital ward, there was a child crying so hard that his face was covered with runny nose and he buried his face in his clothes. He took out the toffee and stuffed it into his clenched little hand, and made up a story about stars and kittens to coax him to sleep.
That child is Jiang Ji. And he was the "brother" who left the toffee and the story together.
He thought that after transferring to another school, he could just watch from a distance. Until Jiang Ji started to look at him with that kind of look - not a stranger, but a certainty of "I seem to have seen you somewhere before".
In the drunken scene, Xu Huan tells the story of the ward in a taxi; in the piano room, Jiang Ji sees the mole on his eyebrow and confirms that he is the "Teacher Yu" back then. The secrets are peeled off layer by layer, from not daring to recognize each other to being honest with each other, from two broken childhoods to sitting side by side at the desk late at night.
But there's more to the story.
From the second year of high school to the college entrance examination, their daily life consisted of stacking real test papers on their desks, walking side by side under the street lights after evening self-study, and arguing endlessly about the same derivative question in the library.
On the day of preparing for the exam, Xu Huan received a deathbed letter from his father from prison and collapsed on the rooftop. Jiang Ji found him and said, "Today is my birthday, but I never celebrate it" - that was the day his mother and brother died. Xu Huan made up for it with an unexpected gift.
Until the summer when he was assigned, Jiang Ji still wore the black kitten earrings given by Xu Huan, and filled out his wish to go south together. Xu Yizhou was admitted to a top medical school, and Zeng Yue traveled to him by high-speed train in 40 minutes.
This is a story about "let's move forward together". There are milk candies, earrings, safety buckles, endless papers and youth that refuses to admit defeat.
Intention: a kind of mutual growth fighting side by side
