She was waiting for a call back, and he was listening to a silence.
When Shen Tingwan was left in Tongli, he was carrying a gray paper star with its corners misaligned. Jiang Yu sat next to him, with no music playing in his headphones. Everyone said not to mess with him, but she found that he just refused to be disturbed by the world.
She puts the paper stars closer each day. On the third day, he watched.
After class on a rainy day, he said it was cold. The tips of her ears were red and she didn't answer. The numbers in the corner of the notebook, he thought were attendance marks, but in fact she was counting how long it would be before her mother would call.
Later, the call came, and she finally understood who had been paying off her debt. Many years later, he took off his headphones - that summer in Tongli had been arguing for a long time. This time, it was Feng who finished the last sentence for her.
Intention: To redeem each other in the youth of silence and countdown.