This article is a parallel subplot of "The Drowning Boy at Evening Bell" with the campus, synchronizing two periods of youth and two extreme regrets.
Everyone looks up to the dazzling number one at the top, and envy Lu Jin and Shen Yu, the gentle young people who run in both directions and have no worries year after year.
But no one saw that Lin Zhou, who was always ranked second, was trapped in long-term inferiority and paranoia, and spent his entire youth in an obsession with the peak that he could never catch up to.
He is competitive, competitive, and unwilling to be mediocre. He is gentle and decent on the outside, but desolate and dark on the inside. He has been chasing light that does not belong to him all his life.
No one even knew that the quiet and gentle young man Wen Ci was suffering from an incurable congenital respiratory disease, and his life had already begun counting down from the moment he met him.
Wen Ci was silent, sensible, and never complained. He stayed with Lin Zhou for two full years despite his frail body.
He spent all the time, tenderness and sincerity he had left, silently favoring and fulfilling her, and bet the rest of his life on someone who never looked at him.
Lin Zhou chased the peak that attracted everyone's attention, ignoring the tenderness around him that burned his life away.
He was jealous, internal conflict, and paranoid. He personally set off a storm of rumors on campus and destroyed other people's stable youth. He also personally pushed away and completely let down the only person who loved him at the risk of his life, Wen Ci.
Affection is exhausted, love dies, and the glimmer of light is completely extinguished.
A gentle person will leave the game due to illness and die alone; a paranoid person will never win or lose and will regret it all his life.
Thousands of people are looking up at the summit, but no one treasures the afterglow.
Youth suffers both losses and leaves nothing but regrets for the rest of life.
There is no broken mirror, no redemption, and no perfection. The entire text implements the aesthetics of disillusionment and writes about the most regrettable misses and irreparable disappointments of youth.
Intention: Not all affection is responded to, and not all companionship can be seen. The cruelest regret in the world is never lack of love, it is the preference that you risk your life for, and it is the burden that others turn a blind eye to throughout their lives. Lin Zhou was trapped in comparison, unwillingness, and worldly rankings, chasing a peak that did not belong to him, but crushed the gentle salvation that belonged to him with his own hands. The greatest sorrow for people is to look up into the distance and lose everything around them. Wen Ci is sensible, quiet, tolerant, and has no regrets. He is not born meek, but is the last sincerity in the countdown of life. The most precious love in the world is often the easiest to be squandered.