When Cheng Yiqing was fifteen years old, he looked at someone at the classroom door for ten seconds longer.
The man was sitting in the third row from the bottom by the window, wearing sky blue short-sleeved shirts and a gray cochlear implant in his left ear. Quiet, gentle, like a beam of light forgotten in a corner.
Later, he got up at 5:30 every morning to buy steamed buns and put them on that person's table.
Later, he said in front of the class - "He's cleaner and better than all of you."
Later, in the abandoned stairwell, he helped the man straighten the crooked external machine and said softly:
"Don't be afraid, baby, I'm here."
That phrase "baby" lasted a lifetime.
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Shen Li thought he was a drag on Cheng Yiqing.
He has bad ears, and when he thinks of the reason for his father's death, he is afraid that sooner or later he will become the biggest stumbling block in Cheng Yiqing's bright future.
So in his sophomore year of high school, he chose to leave without saying goodbye.
He thought this was protecting Cheng Yiqing.
He didn't know that after he left, Cheng Yiqing left breakfast on the empty seat for three whole days, and didn't dare to put it away again on the fourth day.
He didn't know that Cheng Yiqing searched every special education school in three cities to find him.
He didn't know that Cheng Yiqing gave up his admission in physics and filled out biomedical engineering on the college entrance examination application form——
"I don't want a bright future, I just hope that one day I can cure him with my own hands and let him hear about the whole world."
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Three years later, we met again in college.
Under the ginkgo tree, Cheng Yiqing blocked Shen Li in the autumn night and asked in a hoarse voice:
"Baby, don't you want me anymore?"
Shen Li's eyes were red and speechless.
Cheng Yiqing rolled up his left sleeve, revealing the dense old scars on his wrist, and said softly:
"My past three years have been very painful. My body hurts, and my heart hurts even more."
Shen Li collapsed and cried.
That year he taught him: there is no shame in being incomplete, and there is no need for a reason to be loved.
That year he promised him: he would never run away again.
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Later.
He took him abroad to have his ears cured and personally removed the cochlear implant he had worn for more than ten years.
He gave up the physical sea of stars in exchange for hearing the whole world.
He put a ring on him under the ginkgo tree and said——
"Since I was fifteen years old, I can no longer hold other people in my eyes."
He smiled back at him:
"I heard it. The wind, the heartbeat, and your voice saying you love me."
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You don't have to please the world, you don't have to be afraid of being incomplete, and you don't have to push away love because you're not perfect enough.
All the running, waiting, sacrifice and healing in this world are just for you to hear——
Some people have spent the rest of their lives saying they love you since the midsummer when they were fifteen years old.
Intention: Let him hear the voices of the whole world - and the voice of I love you