It is a story about secret love - starting from the first grade of junior high school and ending in high school...
Ren Xi noticed Shenchi for the first time on the first day of school. There was no special reason. The moment the sun fell on the side of his face, her heart beat a beat faster. From then on, she began to look at him secretly: at his side face with his head lowered while writing, at his chin when answering questions, and at his bangs blown by the wind when he walked by the window.
She never told anyone.
The two mothers met each other after picking up their children from school and gradually became friends. We occasionally eat together on weekends and hang out with each other during holidays. In this way, Ren Xi and Shen Chi have a relationship of "knowing each other, but not being familiar with each other" - they are classmates at school, and at home they are brothers and sisters next door who "your mother asked me to take care of you".
Ren Xi carefully hid this relationship. She bought the lemon tea he loved to drink, but never gave it away; she wrote down all his preferences, but never dared to let him know; she secretly picked up the empty bottles he threw away, washed them and put them on the desk, as if she were keeping a secret.
In three years of junior high school, she said nothing.
In high school they went to different schools. Ren Xi thought that this secret love would slowly fade away over time, until they met again in the same cram school during the summer vacation of their second year of high school.
Shenchi is still the same Shenchi, with very long eyelashes, doesn't talk much, and frowns slightly when doing the questions seriously. Ren Xi thought this was a hint of fate and thought there might be something different this time.
But she soon discovered that Shen Chi would stare at the phone and laugh, secretly look at another girl, and reserve a seat, buy water, and borrow notes for that person in advance.
He's in love with someone else.
From the beginning to the end, he had no idea that Ren Xi had liked him.
Intention: It is a story about "missing out" - not a trick of fate, but a person who hides his love too deeply, so deep that another person can never see it.
What it wants to explore is: Where did those unspoken likes in youth go? Is it regret, is it growth, or is it just a vague shadow in memory?