A first-year junior high school student. This is my first time writing. Please read it carefully. Suggestions are welcome.
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This is a story about the silent throbbing of youthful secret love, but also about growth, dignity, and how a girl finds self-salvation and faint warmth under the heavy pressure of her native family. Who will catch her when the first snow falls?
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When the girl Lin Jinyu's eyes met the cold profile of high school sophomore Xie Qingluo for the first time in the noisy playground, the silent first snow in her heart fell quietly. He is an unreachable figure on campus. He comes from a wealthy family and has distant features, like a snow-capped mountain that never melts all year round. And she is a high school girl in a single-parent family who is burdened with the heavy expectations of her mother Lin Ran. Her life is precisely divided into studying, working, and more studying.
I mustered up the courage to add him on WeChat, but the only response he got was "Yeah" and a photo of a calico cat named "Toffee" - that was the only soft crack under Xie Qingluo's cold appearance. However, this secret throb turned out to be a bitter pill during the monthly exams: the large blank space on the math paper resulted in the mother Lin Ran's uncontrollable outburst and torn up the paper in full view of the public. The confetti fell like dirty snowflakes, along with her shaky self-esteem.
What's even more chilling is that Xie Qingluo and his friends happened to pass through the center of the storm. His indifferent eyes and his friend Qi Xiu's unabashed sneer cut through her last bit of dignity more sharply than any words. The mother's disappointment was as sharp as an ice pick, and the senior's indifference was as cold as the wind. Lin Jinyu's world was completely frozen at that moment.
Just as she was huddled in the corner of the infirmary, overwhelmed by despair, the screen of her mobile phone lit up.
From L. Drop.
There is no text, only a photo: a lazy "Toffee" stretched out his pink paws and pressed it on an open dark blue physics notebook that seemed to belong to him.
Is this silent, almost illusory "comfort" the entrance to another world, or a deeper confusion? Caught between the mother's heavy expectations, the girl's sour and secret crush, and the cruel reality, how should Lin Jinyu pick up the torn test papers and herself? When Toffee's paw prints pressed gently on his physics notes, did they also press on the cracked edge of her frozen heart lake?
Concept: Candy is super sweet
