During military training at the age of sixteen, Gu Qinghan poked Shen Yanqing in the back with a ballpoint pen:
"Hello classmate, let's get to know each other."
Shen Yanqing turned around. From then on, the orphan's life was brutally invaded by a little sun.
They made an appointment to go see the sea together on the day they turned eighteen after the college entrance examination.
Gu Qinghan wrote in his diary: "Shen Yanqing, I want both Hai and you."
But the world collapsed too quickly at the age of seventeen.
The diary was turned out, and his parents smashed the desk and shouted that they wanted to send him to a rehabilitation center.
One month before the college entrance examination, Gu Qinghan slit his wrist.
The last message was "Good night."
There is another message that has not been sent out: "I will marry you in the next life, and no wind or rain will stop me."
His parents were embarrassed and no one came to claim him.
Shen Yanqing used the scholarship and part-time money he had saved in three years to take him away as a "family member".
On the day of the cremation, Shen Yanqing was the only one in the small hall of the funeral home.
He put on the white shirt he wore at the beginning of his freshman year of high school.
On the chair in front of him were Gu Qinghan's black and white photos and an urn.
He said: "Gu Qinghan, you promised to marry me when you are eighteen, but today you have moved forward."
He gently put a ring made of a can pull tab on the urn.
After the college entrance examination, Shen Yanqing took half of the ashes to the beach.
When the waves came up, he threw ashes into them.
"Gu Qinghan, you are eighteen years old. I took you to see the sea."
The remaining half, together with the photo, was buried under the acacia tree.
Then Shen Yanqing leaned against another tree trunk and never opened his eyes again.
They spent seventeen years old falling in love and eighteen years old dying.
In the next life, neither the sea nor the trees will separate them.
Intent: Love and death, the pain of the original family, and the young man's final rush to the light in a desperate situation