"Some people are born as the sun, but I can only be a moss chasing the light in the cracks of the wall."
Liu Xiwei always remembered that sultry dusk - when the silver-gray mountain bike passed by the platform, she held down the hem of her skirt that was lifted by the wind, and the boy in the white shirt had already disappeared at the end of Wutong Road. That was her first encounter with Zhou Fu, and it was very similar to her secret love for the next three years: always separated by a burning halo, always half a step away from catching up with his shadow.
The proud student of Mingde Middle School will not remember that he once rescued a trembling girl from the dark equipment room. But that mint-scented night made Liu Xiwei stop in front of the honor roll thirty-two times, take away the best debater from him in the debate competition, and finally stand side by side with him at the International Model Federation venue. When she finally dared to look directly into his eyes, she realized that she was no longer the Cinderella hiding in the crowd and looking up.
"The way you chase the sun so hard is more dazzling than the sun itself," Ye Xiaoyu said when handing over the seventeenth handmade cake. Little did this boy who always put love letters in his math papers know that he taught Liu Xiwei something more important than diplomatic rhetoric - being loved doesn't have to be perfect, just like moss will eventually climb over a brick wall in midsummer.
From the lock cylinder in the equipment room to the spotlight of the Model United Nations, from the ravine in the grade ranking list to the starry sky in the aircraft design, the four teenagers illuminated each other while looking up at each other in a misplaced way. On the day Liu Xiwei received the admission notice from China Foreign Affairs University, she finally understood the function formula that Zhou Fu left in her wrong question book: those were the coordinates where all one-way arrows would eventually intersect.
Secret love is a person's Olympics, but growth is a galaxy of shining stars
Intention: growth