Among the onlookers, only Xie Wenyuan knew the outcome.
He witnessed the whole process of Shen Mian falling from the top of the popular list to being called "beautiful waste", and also witnessed every evening when he was blowing wind on the rooftop. He thought he was determined enough to pull Shen Mian back from the edge of the abyss. He named him "Mianmian", picked him a birthday gift for skipping classes, wrapped hot cocoa in his school uniform and brought it to the rooftop, and said "Let's be together, I want to take care of you in an honest way" by the river.
Shen Mian also thought that she could be held back. He kept the ugly calligraphy drawing that the man gave him close to him, and did not take off the crooked bow all winter. He leaned on his shoulder at the beach and said "good" to him. But the cracks in my bones never healed. He just kept waiting - waiting for a time when he would finally no longer be a burden.
At the end of the summer vacation of his sophomore year in high school, he folded and returned the scarf, kept all the goodwill given to him in a letter, and on the seventy-fourth day after writing in his diary "until June 15th next year", he quietly left the edge of the cliff where he had been pulled for a long time.
Xie Wenyuan later went to the beach alone and said to Hai Feng: "You said every year. It has only been more than a year and you have defaulted on your debt." Hai Feng did not answer.
This is a story in which two people try their best but still reach the predetermined ending. Love does not fail, it just lets go a little bit, which is another form of preservation.
Intention: He loosened the tight rope with a quiet gesture, but everyone who grabbed his clothes understood the warmth and weight of looking back.
