BE | School Life | Mutual Secret Crushes | Redemption | Healing
A sensitive repeat student who grows like wild grass × a fragile art student from a wealthy family
“This is my second time experiencing what people call the longest summer vacation.”
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For the first eighteen years of his life, Chen Ya had always been the less remarkable twin, standing in the shadow of his genius younger brother.
When people mentioned him, they called him “the genius’s older brother.”
Whenever they saw him, they would rush up like Spanish fighting bulls charging at a red cape, all smiles as they asked about his brother.
As if learning a little more about the genius would bring them a little closer to him.
Then, in his third year of high school, he met Shen Yaoyao, who was repeating the year. The girl, wild and unrestrained as a blade of grass, suddenly barged into his life.
She was as lively as an awn of wheat, sensitive and delicate, and liked to pour everything onto the page.
Chen Ya found himself drawing closer to her, helping her break out of her dull life, taking her to see the sea, and easing her financial burdens.
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Then, on New Year’s Eve, his genius younger brother met Shen Yaoyao for the first time and boldly launched an all-out pursuit of her.
Chen Ya felt inferior and despondent. From the rooftop, he watched coldly as his brother poured out his feelings to the girl. Bitterness welled inside him, and he nearly destroyed himself.
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The summer before the start of her fourth year of high school, Shen Yaoyao was working at a convenience store in Daocheng when she met a boy.
Later, during that suffocating year of repeating school, he became the only person she could turn to for emotional support, the one onto whom she projected her feelings.
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“A secret crush is when, the moment I step into your field of vision, none of my actions belong to me anymore.
My limbs become the strings of a lonely, exaggerated marionette onstage. In the image I have imagined for myself, I clumsily and nervously perform the perfect leading role for you.
But why, when this play was staged for you alone, are the strings controlling my body not in my hands?
Why does it hurt whether I give up loving you or keep on loving you?”
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*Both leads are adults. They secretly love each other, with no misunderstandings. It is a BE because they choose different paths in life.
*One-on-one romance. The heroine does not like the hero’s younger brother, but there is a love rivalry between the brothers.
*The hero has a self-destructive streak and is a fragile, beautiful man.
The protagonists’ names are taken from “Magnolia Blossoms, Shortened Form: Falling Blossoms and Flying Catkins”
Falling blossoms, flying catkins. Where, at the far ends of the world, can you be found?
I long to send you my longing. Spring is ending, and the geese flying north from Hengyang grow fewer by the day.
Theme: Deconstructing the labels and shackles imposed by family, and healing oneself to achieve independence of identity during adolescence.
