From the hostility under the backboard to the rest of life under the Aurora - it was a two-way journey spanning seven years.
In the midsummer of the first year of junior high school, Shen Jiachi was blocked by Gu Linze in the basketball final and was pinned to the spot. The score difference of 7.5 Points became the starting point for the competition among the teenagers. The losing streak on the court, the +0.5 In English dictation, the sweetness of osmanthus soda, the fox on the diagonal note in the library... They secretly hid their heartbeats in the details in every "confrontation", until under the streetlight on the first snowy night, that snowy kiss finally made the parallel lines intersect.
During the three years of high school, they were deskmates, comrades-in-arms, and the secret of their fingers intertwined late at night. In the candlelight of the 30-day countdown to the college entrance examination, they agreed to "win the laurels in the Toad Palace, and win together"; under the stars during the graduation trip, they promised to "jump over the mountains and ridges, and I will climb over you too".
But youth always has regrets. At the airport in my sophomore year, the time difference between Zurich and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs pressed the pause button on my love. Three years of separation, the Christmas market in Brussels, the sweetness of boiled red wine, the transparent tent under the aurora - when the old fox keychain dangled again, they finally learned to change "archive" to "direct playback".
From "Class 7 Shen Jiachi" to "Please give me more advice for the rest of my life", from the 7.5-Point score difference to the inner circle of the ring returning to zero - this is a confession about growth, waiting and starting over: "All scores return to zero to become us, and all time differences become your heartbeat."
Intention: All long-planned contests are clumsy approaches; all separations by accident are foreshadowing of reunion.