I live in a neon-bright city, holding the address of a place where you can fly to heaven. You can soar, but I can only stop here.
"If only we hadn't grown close that summer."
"I realized before you did that we weren't right for each other. I just couldn't bear to let you go."
Song Ran: "Shi Chu, I should have returned you to the crowd long ago. You have to go. Go where the lights shine bright. I love you, so you have to be happy. May your path be filled with people and life, may you read countless books, travel to faraway places, and get into the school you want. I want you to live freely and passionately."
She gazes out at the sea. Shi Chu, thank you for once giving me a Klein-blue love, like a sperm whale that dies for love. But I forgot to tell you: a flower doesn't die when it falls. The wind carries it away, then abandons it, and that's when it dies.
I miss you so much, Shi Chu.
Yu Shichu: "In the end, we will disappear from this world, as if we'd never existed. The world will keep flourishing, and vibrant young people will keep living in our footsteps. The cycle repeats: death and rebirth, not me yet somehow me, like you yet not you."
In every sunrise and sunset, people will eventually learn to love themselves. In the twilight and the night, they will sometimes reminisce, and love the person before them.
Song Ran, I actually... love you so much.
We just weren't brave enough. When faced with love and the absence of love, we lied. On the day of the college entrance exam, those were the words I owed you. But we weren't in the same exam hall. You rode your bicycle south, and I went north.
Goodbye, then.
Many years later, he is walking down the road when he suddenly hears a familiar yet somewhat distant voice.
"Long time no see."
Theme: Youth is a bumpy journey, whose beauty only becomes clear in hindsight. A secret crush is one person's unwavering devotion, and a mutual love is two people choosing each other. Liking is too shallow, love is too deep; working toward it together is just right.
