Oxidized Apple

Yao Heng's dream is to become an astronaut. He comes from an ordinary family and lives with his mother after his parents divorced. His mother's lack of companionship left him feeling insecure all year round. He stands out in school, has excellent grades, and has many friends around him, but underneath his glamorous appearance is a sensitive and fragile person. Xu Lin wanted to be a writer. After her parents passed away when she was five years old, she stayed with her uncle. She had a quiet and reserved personality and was an inconspicuous little transparent person in the class. Few people noticed her existence. Two completely different people, but they share the same love - they are both obsessed with the vast universe, and their eyes are always full of stars. The first time the two met was on Xu Lin's sixteenth birthday. No one remembered her birthday that day, so she bought a small piece of cake and sat on a street bench to make a wish. Yao Heng, who had just bought a book, passed by and noticed her loneliness at first sight. He said softly: "Classmate, I'm sorry, the bag on the bench is mine. Please lend it to me." After this meeting, the two became roommates by chance. Xu Lin secretly had a crush on Yao Heng. She always hid this feeling in her diary and never said it out loud. By chance, her diary was snatched away by a classmate and she was looking through it. Yao Heng took the initiative to help her get the diary back. Afterwards, Xu Lin was sitting alone on the grass in the playground in a daze. Yao Heng came to comfort her, mistakenly thinking that she had a boy she liked, which made her feel sour in her heart. This created a gap between the two, and they completely missed the opportunity to confess their feelings. Years passed quickly, and many years later, they each realized their youthful ideals: Xu Lin became a well-known writer, and Yao Heng became an astronaut as he wished. But when Xu Lin learned that Yao Heng was married, the regrets that had accumulated in his heart for many years completely overflowed. At this time, she was already thirty-six years old. She dug out the diary of her youth, reconciled with her timid and secretly excited sixteen-year-old self, and let go of the obsession that had been buried for twenty years. After sorting out old things for a long time, Xu Lin found a note written by Yao Heng among the graduation gifts that year. Every word revealed: I like you. It turns out that the love between teenagers was always two-way, but the misunderstanding at that time caused the two to miss the best opportunity. The moment he saw the note, Xu Lin tore it into pieces and threw it into the trash can. After all, I met the perfect match at the wrong age. There are so many stars in the vast universe, Yao Heng, which star do you come from? Purpose: This article revolves around the youth story of Xu Lin and Yao Heng, who had a two-way secret love but regretted missing it. It uses two teenagers and girls who also yearn for the stars but have completely opposite personalities and circumstances to describe the timid and restrained emotions in adolescence that dare not express it openly. The story explores the long-lasting regrets caused by misunderstandings in youth, telling the process of reconciliation between adults and youth, conveying the power of relief; at the same time, using the stars in the universe as emotional carriers, it explains that some encounters are true but not at the right time, teaching readers to accept the unresolved misses in youth and tenderly bid farewell to the regrets that have been hidden in the heart for many years.