In the attic of an old bookstore during the rainy season, mildew grows like a map in the humidity.
Lin Yu, a 24-year-old bookstore owner, secretly wrote in his account book:
"Today I consumed three packs of tissues, seven sugar cubes, and stared twenty-six times without daring to say it out loud."
Until the coffee apprentice Cheng Qi, who is deaf in his right ear, hid the damp sugar cube in his hearing aid and said:
"Your voice is mixed with sugar residue, like a love letter that was not sent in 1987."
Two teenagers, pickled by their parents' lies, faked their time under a leaky roof——
Use overnight coffee to forge postmarks, grind burnt epiphyllum into medicine, and pour secretly recorded rain sounds into rusty tapes.
Until one day, Cheng Qi uncovered the truth from the ashes of the arson case:
Those unopened springs have long been written into the yellowing medical records, becoming a curse passed down from generation to generation like a genetic disease.
Purpose: Cherish the people in front of you