Before hearing you, the world was a sea of silence.
In the late summer of 2015, Lin Sui bumped into Jiang Yu who was skipping class in the stairwell of Linxia No. 1 Middle School.
The faded blue bracelet on his wrist hooked her button, and the fifty-week notebooks were scattered on the floor, like an unexpected youth avalanche.
She is a quiet class representative who is deaf in her left ear but secretly writes novels. She listens to the world with her right ear.
He is a rebellious boy who has perfect scores in physics but dreams of playing the guitar. He hides an old guitar in a lighthouse by the sea.
He always stood on her right side and talked, and she always wrote about the light in his eyes in her novels.
They made an agreement: You write a story and I will compose it into a song. After the college entrance examination is over, we will go to a city with a sea.
But youth never plays its cards as promised——
The ship whistle when my father returned, the sudden deafness in his left ear, the rainy night when he missed the re-examination, the admission notices scattered everywhere...
Those secrets that were noisy like cicadas in the summer were finally crushed into the sand of silence by the countdown to the college entrance examination.
Until many years later, he stood on her right and whispered amid deafening cheers:
"Lin Sui, can I ask that question now?"
And she heard--
Not with her ears, but with the warmth of the blue bracelet he left in her palm when she was seventeen.
"You are the most deafening silence that my right ear can hear."
Purpose: Learn to accept regrets