The whole school said that Ji Xunian was the most difficult flower to pick in Nanzhong, but they didn't know that Gu Yi hid a secret - deep in the cochlea of her deaf right ear, "To the Oak" he had read wrongly at the radio station three years ago was playing on a loop.
Until dusk when the rain was pouring, Gu Yi was locked in the equipment room because of a hearing aid malfunction. Ji Xunian, who was soaked all over, kicked open the iron door and sneered against her intact left ear amidst the roaring thunder: "You little deaf girl, you secretly filmed me for three years, how dare you?"
He saw through the Polaroids she had hidden in the middle of her schoolbag, but he didn't know that the incomplete poem was transcribed on the back of each photo.
Later, Ji Haonian found Gu Yi's diary in the piano room. There was half a yellowed radio station duty list sandwiched between the yellowed pages. The proud man who ranked first in the overall examination, trembling and covering his heart, squatted in the twilight of seventeen years old - it turned out that three years ago, through the glass of the studio, the girl wearing a strawberry hairpin said through lip language, "He looks so cute when he mispronounces words." It was not an illusion.
"Gu Yi, you can't hear the world, so I will be your ears." At the school anniversary party, Ji Haonian took off her hearing aid in front of the whole school, "But here -" the young man pressed his warm lips on her left ear, "Always remember, my heart beat earlier than you thought.
Intention: Lovers will eventually get married