Secretly Like

The autumn wind in September swept the fallen sycamore leaves and filled the corridor of the teaching building of Nancheng No. 1 Middle School. A class division made Wen Xuning and Qi Tuo meet again. Wen Xuning has a quiet and gentle nature, with a pair of pear dimples embedded in her cheeks. She keeps an orange hard candy that has been left aside for a whole year, and a lost silver hairpin. The hasty rainy day meeting last autumn was quietly buried deep in her memory. After she was reclassified as a freshman in high school, she would often pay attention to the taciturn young man diagonally behind her. She just thought it was her own untimely attraction that she had unilaterally developed. She carefully hid all her feelings, not daring to expect that the other person would pay attention to her ordinary self. Qi Tuo is an honors student who is at the top of his grade list. He lives alone all year round. He has an aloof aura around him that keeps strangers away, and he rarely interacts with others. No one knew that he carried the same orange candy in his pocket day after day for a whole year. They met by chance on a rainy day a year ago, and the girl who was hiding in panic and with messy hair took up residence in his heart. He is used to observing calmly, restraining all his emotions, and never showing any softness easily. At the sports meeting, when he saw her crumbling due to low blood sugar, he gave up the crucial event without hesitation and handed out the orange candy that carried past memories; when malicious rumors spread in the campus forum, he, who had always been silent, took the initiative to block all unwarranted criticism; when the National Day holiday came, he used the newly created class group to consider sending a friend request for a long time, carefully apologizing for the turmoil he had been involved in. He never confesses directly, and all his preferences are hidden in actions; she never understands those special exceptions, and is always trapped in a one-way secret love of self-doubt. From the distant gazes when we first met at the beginning of school, to the reserved opening remarks in the WeChat dialog box, to the inadvertent approach during group outings, the long freshman year of high school slowly flowed, and the tenderness hidden in the candies, eyes, and critical moments came to the surface little by little. It turns out that the long years of secret longing have never been a one-man show. He was secretly guarding her, and she was secretly moving. The two silent secret loves finally ran towards each other step by step in the early autumn wind, completing a gentle two-way rush. Purpose: Using the daily life of high school as the background, it depicts the restrained and restrained heartbeats of young people, and tells the story of two deep-seated secret loves that slowly reconcile and get closer to each other, proving that sincere preference will eventually transcend silence and timidity, and that the heart in youth will never be let down.