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The last day of being eighteen.
Bai Chun sat on a rock by the sea. Behind her was a bonfire after sunset; before her stood Chen Shisui, the boy adored by countless people.
Using the sound of the waves to cover her voice, she quietly confessed her love and poured out a young girl's feelings.
Chen Shisui said nothing about romance. He let the sea breeze fill his hoodie and said only, "Happy nineteenth birthday."
All their previous flirtation was like a dream, which he personally shattered into pieces beneath the moon by the sea.
So, before leaving the country, Bai Chun gave him a bouquet of white camellias and went in search of a second life.
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Years later, Bai Chun thought of Chen Shisui only as the growing pains of her eighteenth year. She never imagined they would meet again.
Chen Shisui still looked like a boy: always proud, always certain of victory.
But when he saw her, he held a bookmark made from a white camellia. "It didn't wither. It's been waiting for you to come back."
Afraid her eyes would give her away, Bai Chun didn't dare look at him. Her words carried a double meaning: "But growing pains don't come after you turn eighteen."
He stepped forward and pressed the bookmark into her palm. Ignoring her struggles, he pulled her into his arms. "I have never taken your love lightly."
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"He was the growing pains of her eighteenth year; she was the white camellia he left behind in his youth."
***The white camellia means: How could you take my love lightly?
PS:
Chen Shisui (sui, second tone)
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