Zhou Jinyi's youth was the gray color held in the palm of her mother's hand, the manuscripts locked in a drawer that never saw the light of day, and the vacancy that could no longer be filled after her father left.
She is meek, restrained, and has excellent grades, but she hides the wildest words in her heart.
Her mother said that she was like her father who died young, a stubborn person who did not listen to advice.
It wasn't until her second year of high school that the boy with a red string tied around his wrist and a hidden pain in his heart became her deskmate.
In the biology class, the teacher lamented that the hibiscus flowers bloom in the morning and fall in the evening, and life is short.
He just lowered his head and whispered to her:
The hibiscus flowers bloom and smile.
He pushed her to stand on the podium, letting everyone see her light.
He helped her reach the banner of the Hundred Days Pledge of Allegiance, and helped her realize a dream without her father present.
He accompanied her in the snow at the beginning of the third year of high school, and saw her gray hair for a moment.
He said he would take her to see the snow in Mongolia and go to the north together.
Year after year.
He gave her the red string that he had worn close to his body for more than ten years.
Accompany her throughout her senior year of high school.
Later, she received the eighteen-year-old coming-of-age ceremony he had prepared in advance:
A bouquet of handwoven hibiscus and a short letter.
The last sentence is:
I wish you the best and we never say goodbye.
But tomorrow is her birthday.
It snows in Mongolia year after year.
A boy always stops at the age of seventeen,
She kept an unfulfilled promise, one year, five years, ten years...
The boy was buried in midsummer, and she guarded their first snow, year after year.
This time, I will record your short and gorgeous youth with my hands.
Intention: Everyone will be eighteen years old, and our eighteen years are very different. Family, love, friendship, these are the forces that support us. I hope that everyone who loves me and the people I love can be safe and smooth.