On the first day of the first year of high school, Su Tang bumped into Gu Shen while riding his bicycle, and lemon candies were scattered all over the floor. She raised her head and bumped into his cold eyes, and the long chase began.
He is a genius in physics competitions. He looks cold and indifferent, but in fact he is soft and sensitive in his heart. She is a sunny and cheerful painting girl who melts his frozen heart little by little with lemon candies and desserts. From tablemates to friends, from friends to lovers, they walked through the four seasons on Wutong Road, watched the sunset by the river, and named a "Suger Star" at the observatory. However, his mother's sudden death, family changes, and misunderstandings made him choose to leave without saying goodbye and leave for the United States at the most painful time.
After more than two years of separation, he struggled with depression in a foreign country, while she worked hard at painting and was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts at home. They each groped in the darkness, but never really let go of each other. When we met again, all the misunderstandings turned into "I still like you". They held hands again, transcended their foreign love, and built their own home in Beijing. He learned painting from her and knelt down on one knee at art exhibitions; she painted lemons for him all her life. From school uniforms to wedding dresses, from lemon candies to lemon trees, they spent twelve years proving that true love means that even if you are separated, you will fight to come back.
The novel uses "lemon candy" as the running image, sour and sweet intertwined, sweet and cruel in nature. Delicate campus secret love, sadistic separation, healing reunion, as well as the warm daily life of passionate love, foreign country, proposal, and married life. It will take you to recall the sweet and sour youth and experience a two-way love.
Concept: The work explores the dual propositions of "waiting" and "growth" through the twelve-year emotional journey of Su Tang and Gu Shen from high school to marriage. True love is not a smooth sailing fairy tale, but the courage to still choose to go to the other person after experiencing misunderstanding, separation, and pain. Su Tang learned to be independent while waiting and turned his thoughts into a paintbrush; Gu Shen overcame depression while feeling guilty and learned to express and take responsibility. Their stories tell readers: Love is not about attachment, but about becoming a better version of yourself side by side. The sourness and sweetness of lemon candy are just like youth.