
Starting Line of Rest
休止符的起跑线
by Di Yu Xiaoxiao (笛雨潇潇)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 3k Words
- Genre
- Romance
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 1y ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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When life entered the countdown, she stole every tremor of the second hand just to make his heart beat at the same frequency as his dream. Xiang You, a talented piano girl, has Chopin's fantasy and Liszt's edge engraved in her bones, but her life was paused at the age of eighteen - congenital heart disease caused her heartbeat to become an old piano with a missing sound. And rising star sprinter Lin Yanqing, burdened with the glory of the provincial record, was imprisoned by the shackles of depression in front of the starting line. Every shot of the starting gun was like a blade tearing open an old wound. A ridiculous mistake in the medical office caused cardiotonic drugs and antidepressants to collide in the blood, creating sparks of empathy. Xiang You's piano keys began to record the trajectory of Lin Yanqing's mistakes, and Lin Yanqing's spikes crushed her staff, which was stained red by hemoptysis. She hid the pills in the mint jar, and he secretly tampered with her electrocardiogram report; she played "Moonlight Sonata" in a modified version for him in the rainstorm, and he mixed the painkillers into the cherry blossom cake during her chemotherapy. When the doctor announced the deadline for Xiang You, she risked her last body temperature and taught him how to fold paper cherry blossoms that could run away in the ward. And Lin Yanqing went crazy and set a new record of running from the hospital to the piano room - 12 minutes and 37 seconds, just enough time to listen to the first movement of "Farewell Song". It wasn't until the tombstone replaced the podium and the gold medal melted into an urn that people discovered: It turned out that she had composed her suicide note into a running rhythm, and every step of his sprint was measuring the echo that spanned life and death. Three years after Xiang You's death, Lin Yanqing heard the non-existent "Moonlight Sonata" in the dressing room. On the night when he won the World Championships, he melted the gold medal and swallowed the plating with the music score engraved on it. Only then did people realize that - on the back of the blood-stained training plan, there were 365 sentences written on the back of the page, "Please watch the cherry blossoms tomorrow for me." The cruelest youth story is to let the living person run with two memories, until they meet again at the finish line, the second hand and the heartbeat finally stop with the same echo. "If the cherry blossoms fall at a speed of five centimeters per second, how fast must my heart beat to catch up with your falling trajectory?" "I cried on my back at your funeral, but you smiled sweetly in my memory, and your smile was so sweet." [Bitter pomelo died in the spring when the mountain bird was mourning. The mountain bird has lost its trace since then, which is absurd and sad. Mission: May everyone's dreams come true.