The separation of classes in the second grade of high school is the beginning of the story of Wen Zhi and Jiang Yi.
She is a quiet and reserved girl who is firmly at the top of her grade. She has a delicate mind and hides all her emotions in an off-white diary. She lives by the rules and meets everyone's expectations. He is a rebellious teenager who is seen by others as sleepy and skipping classes and at the bottom of his grades. He seems to be unapproachable, but in fact he is gentle at heart, hiding his unknown sensitivity and inferiority complex.
A "good and bad" seat adjustment made two parallel lines that had no intersection at first quietly intersect.
The distance between the desks is very close, so close that you can feel each other's breathing and see clearly the trajectory of each other's pen tips. When she was stuck with a difficult problem, he would quietly push the scratch paper filled with answers; when she was sick, he would quietly put warm water and cold medicine into her drawer. She would patiently help him sort out his wrong questions, hand him a band-aid with red eyes when he was hurt, and silently put the joy in his heart into each stroke of his handwriting.
The evening breeze blew through the sycamore trees on campus, the lights for evening self-study, the shared headphones, the same mint green pen, and the unspoken words of love, pieced together their entire youth. They made a promise in midsummer that they would rush to the same city for the future, and that they would reveal all their feelings that had been hidden for a long time after the college entrance examination.
But the joy of youth is ultimately not worth the sudden parting.
In the evening when the college entrance examination came to an end, she clutched the love letter that she had revised repeatedly and waited for him under the sycamore tree for a whole evening, just waiting for the news that he would go abroad and never look back.
The letter full of love was not sent after all; the person who promised to go together remained in the past.
Later, as time went by, they grew up separately, and when they met again, they were completely different. That two-way secret love that ended without a problem, that unsent heartfelt letter, became the tenderest and most piercing regret in the entire youth, forever sealed in that hot and sad summer.
Concept: The end of a two-way secret love is growth rather than ending. The contrast between the two protagonists, who seem to be "a top student and a scumbag", is actually two young people with sensitive hearts who illuminate each other: Wen Zhi becomes braver and more purposeful because of Jiang Yi; Jiang Yi learns to face his own tenderness and value because of Wen Zhi. Their emotional line is not for "perfect love", but to push each other to become better versions of themselves. Even if they failed to get together in the end, this love was still the brightest light in their youth. Youth is true because of regrets, and love is eternal because it is unspoken. The story about two-way secret love, real separation and final relief expresses the theme of "we missed in youth and grew up in years", proving that true romance does not have to stay together, as long as we have illuminated each other, it will be enough to warm the rest of our lives.
