Unfocused Likes

In his junior year, Yu Feng took over a part-time job as a photographer for the school's swimming competition and met senior Xu Rulin for the first time on the sidelines of the preliminaries. She didn't expect that she, who had always kept a distance from people and things, would pay such unusual attention to a stranger. On the field, her camera deviated from the original shooting mission again and again and landed on Xu Rulin. A set of highly infectious butterfly swimming photos unexpectedly became popular, making Xu Rulin, who was originally unknown, become the focus of the campus overnight. But Xu Rulin didn't like this sudden attention. Swimming is what he is best at and what he most wants to get rid of. He originally planned to quietly end his more than ten-year sports career after graduation, but he was thrust back into everyone's attention because of this set of photos. Angry, he began to look for the photographer who changed his life. One late night when he had no sleep, he met Yu Feng on the rooftop taking pictures of the stars. He didn't know that the cold, taciturn girl in front of him, who seemed to be indifferent to everything, was the person he had been looking for. Yu Feng didn't tell him either. A secret that allowed her to stay with the person she liked, and also allowed this secret love that had never been spoken out to finally stop in the graduation season. A year later, the two met again in the same company in the urban workplace. This time, Yu Feng, who had already put away his old love, no longer followed him. And Xu Rulin finally began to look for her again and again in the crowd. Concept: "Unfocused Love" is not about "recovering first love after missing it", but the process of two young people re-understanding love and themselves at the interface between campus and society. Yu Feng once quietly liked Xu Rulin, but never thought that his love deserved a response; Xu Rulin later fell in love with Yu Feng, and he had to understand that just because she once liked him, it did not mean that she would stay where she was and wait forever. True love is not about pursuing someone who once liked you, but about getting to know and choose the other person again after both of you have changed. At the same time, the story uses Xu Rulin's swimming career to discuss another growth proposition: being good at one thing does not mean that you have to devote your life to it. Xu Rulin needs to learn to leave the life planned for him by others, while Yu Feng slowly confirms his own lifestyle and direction in the process of entering the city from campus. They didn't save each other, they just saw the existence of another person in each other's most confused age. And "photography" runs through the entire article - in college, it was Yu Feng who kept looking at Xu Rulin through the viewfinder. After entering the city, Xu Rulin kept looking for Yu Feng among the crowd. The person who is focused by the camera finally sees the person behind the camera.