A Case of Mistaken Dialogue

Healing violinist x deaf, tough guy from a small town In high school, Xing Yun met someone who took her breath away: Shen Qianhuai, the unreachable beauty of No. 5 High School. In the graduation photo, the boy's features are cool and aloof, his posture straight and proud, his blue school uniform washed pale. - A love letter resurfaces. In a smoky billiards hall, the letter's subject has a thin cigarette between his lips. Someone asks Shen Qianhuai about her. He rests an arm casually on the edge of the table, tilts his head, and teases them: "Don't remember her. Didn't like her." Xing Yun walks past in front of him, head lowered and eyes red, saying nothing. Someone notices him staring at her slender figure as if his soul had gone with her. They rib him, kindly warning him, "Don't go too far. Stop picking on the girl." He calmly looks away and leans over his cue. "We dated. She dumped me." - Xing Yun makes a decision no one understands. She takes her violin and returns to his hometown to become a folk musician. Her colleagues lament that nobody understands her talent. She only smiles and shakes her head. "Someone does. He'll come back." One day, two days, three days. He comes back. The spring rain hasn't let up. Shen Qianhuai holds an umbrella for her as he straightens her rain-soaked hem. Over the pounding rain, his voice is languid and clear: "You'd rather play violin in this dump than say something nice to me?" 2021.11.22, revised 2022.2.16 Love grows, and one day we will meet again Next story: If the Moon Could Hear If the moon could hear, Lu Fenghe, I would tell you a thousand times that I love you. - Gentle little sunshine x world-weary cool guy As a child, she secretly visited the boy who often came to the hospital for IV drips. He was fair-skinned, slender, sickly, and always said the same three words: "It's pointless." Eventually, despite all her precautions, she let herself be found out. The boy sitting on his hospital bed turned his head to look at her, his voice cool and indifferent. "Do I know you?" On a rainy day as they were parting, they agreed to meet outside a soup dumpling shop. Xia Zhuo waited under her umbrella until the very last moment, but the unruly, defiant boy never showed up. - Three years later, in a hallway full of the smell of disinfectant. Xia Zhuo accidentally witnesses an argument. A woman hysterically asks him what he's trying to do. The boy coolly tosses out two words: "I want to die." His tone is so casual and carefree that she's heard it from only one person. She takes a moment too long to turn away after overhearing them. Then she hears footsteps approach from behind, followed by someone's laugh and a low, lazy voice: "Xia Zhuo, pretending you don't know me?" - Later, Lu Fenghe accidentally unfolds a paper crane and finds a line of neat, elegant handwriting inside: If the moon could hear, Lu Fenghe, I would tell you a thousand times that I love you. 2022.8.1 Theme: Growing together