[Ephemeral two-way secret love × gentleness causing depression BE]
We were cowards in each other's youth who didn't dare to speak. Su Nian hid Jiang Yubai for three years.
Hidden in the scratch paper on the title page of the textbook, hidden in the peripheral vision of the playground bleachers, hidden in the deliberately slow pace on the way to school. She thought this was just her secret that no one knew about, but she didn't know that the cool young man who always ranked first had already filled the corners of the exercise book with her silhouette. From looking at each other when borrowing a pen in the first year of high school, to turning around after graduating from the third year of high school, the pause when borrowing a pen, the peripheral vision of the topic, and the evening breeze during self-study, every brushing of shoulders hides the unspoken heartbeat. They were like two mayflies who met in the wave of youth. Their hearts collided with each other, but they never dared to say "I like you." On graduation day, the cicadas chirped and the wind stopped in the corridor. They only said to each other, "The future is bright," and then went their separate ways, never to return.
Mayflies are fleeting, and so is love. All perfection is left to parallel time and space.
Intent: Use the ephemera as a metaphor for the short and cowardly two-way secret love in youth. It is written for all the youthful love hidden in the heart that has never been spoken, and also for that high school confession that was ultimately late.
It's not bloody or forced to torture, it just restores the truest youthful miss: two teenagers who share the same mind finally missed each other because of their youthful timidity. Leave perfection to parallel time and space, let regrets resonate with most people, be gentle and melancholy, and heal everyone who dares not speak.