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● Fake siblings | Bittersweet romance | Reunited after a breakup later in the story
● Cool, aloof girl vs. seemingly sweet but secretly calculating older brother
A ferry drifted across the sea. It was the closest Zhu Yin had ever been to the ocean.
The ship's horn sounded like a peculiar call to arms. Brilliant, multicolored lights filled her eyes, and the people around her were clearly having a lively time.
Sitting by the window, she remembered the last time she'd helped Chi Jiayan search his pockets. There, in her palm, had been a silver ring.
She asked him again the question she'd asked as a child: “Are you still my brother?”
His answer was no different from before. “Yes.”
But after a pause, Chi Jiayan added, “If one day you don't want me to be your brother anymore...”
“You can have that, too.”
As they gazed at each other, his eyes were like the deep sea.
For years, she had been held aloft by that sea.
The second half of his words left Zhu Yin momentarily dazed, and a complicated feeling stirred within her.
Perhaps he'd been waiting many years to say them, too.
[If you are a lone sail upon the sea, then I will be the ocean that takes you in.]
*The title was inspired by He Lu's song “Let Her Land”:
“I'd rather be a boat. If you are the ocean, let her drift in your heart.”
Theme: A lonely boat, with a line tightly tethering both ends.
In the dream, Wanyu mouthed "goodbye" without any sound, but Zhuyin understood it. But it was not a farewell, but a "promise". In reality, they were still eating and taking pictures, like a normal farewell, but also like saying that after the meal is over, we will sit together again. When the stream turns a corner, it is not flowing away, but to join together. They will all eventually believe that goodbye is not never seeing each other again, but seeing you next time.
It's because they understand each other so well that they can detect something immediately. Zhuyin is so clumsy and sincere in making people happy. It's so cute at this moment. In fact, they are very young friends. They are less cold and more lively. Even Chi Jiayan can capture Zhuyin's moments like this. There are very few.
Wanyu is like a mountain stream, and the sound of bamboo is like the wind blowing in the bamboo forest. One is flowing around me gently, and the other is coming from a distance coldly. They are different, but they are both voices that make people quiet. After they are separated, I think of it like "Those Flowers": "They are all old, where are they?" The stream will flow together when it turns, and the sound of bamboo will sound again when the wind comes. They are just separated by a mountain temporarily. The water will meet again and the wind will rise again. The same goes for friendship 🙏 🙏 🙏
Bamboo sound Bamboo sound Bamboo is quiet. The sound is far away. I can't hear it. I think I'm close. In fact, it's just an echo. The coldness is not cold, it's far. The distance is not distance. It's her standing there. The sound floats to people, but there is a whole bamboo forest across it.
The magic box really opens when the medicine is sprinkled. The anonymous gift of the bracelet is making the box. Saying "give it away if you want" is the lid of the box. Repairing it with your own hands is reluctant to part with the little hope at the bottom of the box. But when he is about to sprinkle the medicine powder and wants to say those words with his own mouth, his hands are stiff - "The words spoken by myself are 10,000 times stronger than the preset in my heart." "It turned out to be trusting. Fortunately, it was trusting." They are all the same. Only when they trust each other will they ask questions and experience similar pain. At this point, the lid of the box can no longer be closed.
The "Pandora's Box" here is not the bracelet itself. It is more like Chi Jiayan's unsigned heart. The box contains the truth that he likes to expect and dare not say. The more Zhuyin cherishes the bracelet, the more he can see hope and the more afraid that the truth will be opened and release the consequences that he cannot control. The bracelet is torn off and repaired, just like the magic box is almost opened and then forcibly closed. What really traps him is "anonymous heart + cherished bracelet + The truth that cannot be told"
When Zhuyin raised her hand to ask for him, with complete trust, she was sure that he would not refuse. And he really accepted this trust, but instead of being aloof and pitiful, he put away his sharp edge and bent down to stand with her in the darkness. The shadow became shorter inch by inch. He did not illuminate her, but turned himself into a person like her.
So gentle, I will be happy in the future 🙏 🙏 🙏
Even if it is a dream, I will still go to it because I am the dearest person, and only in dreams can I see my father 😭 😭 😭 Zhuyin is not an alien, he is the baby of mom and dad 😭 😭 😭
Zhuyin discovered and asked that the magic box was opened at this time. Chi Jiayan said, "Give it away if you want." On the surface, he gave it casually, but in fact, he used the lightest words to hide his feelings that he dared not admit. The magic box now represented his sincerity that he still dared not face after being opened. He both hoped that she would know, but was also afraid that she would know. He was also the one who made and repaired the box.