"Some likes are like moonlight, quietly illuminating all corners but never being seen."
In his sophomore year of high school, Lin Xiaofeng mustered up the courage to confess to school beauty Xie Yating, but only received a letter that was returned intact. He was so devastated that he didn't know that his classmate Shen Mingyue had been measuring the distance between him and himself with her eyes for countless dusk.
Shen Mingyue is used to silence. She would pretend to pass by Lin Xiaofeng when he was playing ball, and "just" prepare an extra textbook when he forgot to bring his textbook. After he tore up the draft paper, he picked it up piece by piece and inserted it into his own "The Birds". It wasn't until the evening when the phone fell that the cracked screen revealed the secret of her candid photos - the date of the photo showed that Mingyue was also present on the day Lin Xiaofeng confessed to Xie Yating.
"Why do you decide my mood on your own?"
"Why do you think I would be willing to be a substitute?"
From the classroom to the rooftop, from the school anniversary drama to the auditorium in the rainstorm, the two proud and clumsy souls kept getting closer and farther away. When Xie Yating appeared again and the returned letter unexpectedly came to light, they discovered——
Some wounds need each other to heal, and some hearts need time to become clear. Just like Xiaofeng can never tell the difference between east, west and north, but can always find Mingyue in the crowd; just like Mingyue can't remember chemical formulas, but remembers all his tiny habits.
"If secret love is like a long rainy season, then falling in love is like the entire starry sky reflected in the wet puddles on the ground after the rain stops."
This is a story about misplaced heartbeat and two-way healing. When the regrets and expectations of youth are intertwined, when "settling for the next best thing" becomes "you have to", we will eventually understand——
Moonlight may be late, but it never misses its promise.
Intention: Looking for the true appearance of love in the lost youth