When they were seventeen, Shi Qing and Jiang Yan kissed on the rooftop, like two accomplices, secretly carving each other's names into their youth.
They skipped class together to see the maple forest and wrote "forever" on the back of the maple leaves; together they left two series of side-by-side footprints in the snow in Harbin. Jiang Yan said, "We will watch the snow together every winter from now on." Shi Qing thought that they would always be co-conspirators side by side, fighting against the mediocrity of the world until "forever" becomes a reality.
But at the age of twenty-nine, Jiang Yan was getting married.
Shi Qing stood outside the crowd at the wedding, watching Jiang Yan hold other people's hands, and suddenly remembered the rooftop when he was seventeen years old - the wind was very strong that day, and Jiang Yan's white shirt was blown up, and he said, "Shi Qing, we must always be this good."
It turns out that "always" has a time limit, and it turns out that the accomplices will surrender themselves first.
Shi Qing didn't come forward to say congratulations, he just locked the unsent letters and unsent gifts into the drawer. He knew that from the moment Jiang Yan said "I'm getting married", they really became old people with different paths.
The maples I saw side by side, the snow I stepped on, and the "forever" I wrote all became his secrets.
He is the only fugitive in this youthful crime, and he is serving his sentence alone, guarding the memories of his accomplices.
Intention: We once shared our youth side by side, and eventually we became each other's old friends