The damp rooftop rust crawled up Lin Zhaoye's school uniform trousers, and when the cigarette butt burned through the third disciplinary notice, he discovered Jiang Yuxing's secret - the top student who always peeked at him playing the piano in the piano room was currently huddled in the corner tearing up his physics notes. Half of a family photo was revealed between the tear-soaked pages, and my sister's smile was cut into two parts by the crease.
"Eat candy while crying. How can you sing "Wild Star" if your voice is hoarse?" The mint candy thrown by Lin Zhaoye broke the silence on the ground. This was his final analgesic, the last "disguised sweetness" in the blue iron box that his mother left behind when she abandoned him.
When Jiang Yuxing caught the candy, the cracks in the star-and-moon necklace around his neck were more glaring than the old scars on his wrists. Lin Zhaoye would not tell him that he had remembered that voyeuristic gaze, just as Jiang Yuxing would not confess that the back of his physics notes was full of musical notation, with the melody of "Wild Star" beating on it.
When the dean's roar crashes into the piano room, when the pieces of the domestically violent father's wine bottle get stuck into the choir trophy, when the rumor of "problem teenagers abducting top students" goes viral on the Internet——
Lin Zhaoye pried open the blue iron box in the heavy rain, and found 37 cigarette butts and 137 candy wrappers hugging each other in the water. Jiang Yuxing crushed the mint candy and sneered: "Now we are accomplices."
The sharp blades thrown by the original family were forged by them into a bridge to each other.
On the day Lin Zhaoye burned the paternity test certificate in court, Jiang Yuxing tied the repaired star-and-moon necklace around his neck: "It has my mother and my sister on it, and now I'll add you."
In the intertwined palms of the young man, the mints are melting in the body temperature, very much like the unburned cigarettes on the rooftop that year, very much like the most gentle resistance in the ending they tampered with together.
Concept: Mints can fill the pain, but only love can bloom on the wound