——Secret love becomes a disease, and finally sees the light of day
"Yu Mei likes Xu Huaizhi, but no one knows."
In junior high school, Yu Mei huddled in the corner of the classroom, covering her washed white sweater with the cuffs of her school uniform, watching the boy spinning his pen and laughing in the morning light.
At first, she thought the most painful thing was that he was standing next to He Yuexin in the graduation photo, but she didn't even have the courage to take a photo.
"Everyone knows that Xu Huaizhi likes He Yuexin."
Until they met again on a rainy night many years later, and he dragged her into a dark alley corner.
The smell of blood was mixed with the scent of absinthe, and the man's blood-stained fingertips pressed against her lips: "My little classmate, you're fine."
Later:
The small-town girl who dropped out of junior high school became a slightly famous painter.
The proud man of heaven planted roses in the ruins of the Starry Sky Gallery.
On the night when the seventh star of the Big Dipper fell, someone saw Xu Huaizhi kneeling in front of Yu Mei's studio, holding a repaired enamel cup and saying:
"You didn't dare send a love letter when you were seventeen. If I send it when I'm twenty-seven, can I exchange it for 'I do'?"
Small Theater
At the book signing, readers clamored to read the story of first love.
Yu Mei turned to the final chapter of "Once Upon a Time when the Fog Stopped" - a young man wearing a baseball cap spread out his palms under the wisteria trellis, and inside was a star wrapped in candy wrapper.
A man wearing a mask suddenly stood up from the audience: "Teacher Yu, the drawing is wrong."
He took off his mask to reveal a small mole at the end of his eye: "You didn't even open the star candy I gave you back then."
The big screen suddenly played a surveillance video: In a convenience store late at night in 2016, 20-year-old Xu Huaizhi breathed and drew stars on the glass, while 18-year-old Yu Mei, who had returned from work, passed by in the snow outside the window.
"Secret love is very painful, like the summer wind, which blows through the heart but cannot dissipate the feeling of loneliness."
"Fortunately, Moonlight in Wuting Town remembers that both Rose and the boy should have a bright future."
Reading guide:
1. From campus to city/secret love comes true/double redemption
2. Cold lawyer × tough cartoonist, SC/HE
3. Writing for primary school students
4. Short stories
Intention: The highest state of love is heartache