At the age of eighteen, Lin Xi transferred from a remote mountainous area to the best high school in city A, with a dialect accent, washed white shorts, and a shy face worn by the mountains. Here, she met a group of good friends who shined like stars, shining on her.
The days that followed were like someone turning the pages of a book quickly. They would pass notes together in evening self-study, share a bowl of rice noodles on the second floor of the cafeteria, and reach for the same baton at the same time during relay races at sports meets. Until the evening before graduation, he suddenly put headphones into her ears, and a song she had never heard was playing in it: "You come from the mountains, I will take you to see the sea." When she turned her head, she saw the tips of his ears were red, and the sycamore leaves outside the window were cutting the sunset into millions of pieces of gold foil.
This is not the story of the prince and Cinderella, this is the soft bow that the mountain and the sea learn from each other when they meet.
Concept: The power of group portraits - In addition to love, the novel also emphasizes the warmth of "a group of good partners". The idea is: Growth is never a solitary struggle. It is these moments of encounter, collision, and mutual illumination that make everyone become a more complete version of themselves.
Ultimately, it wants to tell you: Mountains and seas are not connected, but because I met you, I learned to bow my head, and you also learned to look up. This is both youth and the gentlest truth of growth.