Seventeen-year-old He Yunjin was used to her mother's beatings and scoldings, to the whispers of others, and to the cold winter days. She was like an iceberg floating in the Arctic Ocean, freezing herself layer by layer with indifference until she met that silly boy.
The boy always had peach-flavored gummy candies in his pocket. He accompanied her throughout the 800-meter run during the physical test. He would remember all her likes and dislikes and find various reasons to cook her favorite meals when he knew she had no money to eat. He drew a Q version of her in his notebook with the words "Countdown to the Extreme Sun" written next to it.
During a night study session during a power outage, the young man suddenly came closer and said in a very soft voice: "He Yunjin, they all say that you are the glacier of the Arctic."
"Then you're not afraid of the cold?"
His fingertips pointed at the polar day diagram of the Arctic Ocean in the geography textbook: "Look, even in the North Pole, there will be seasons when the sun never sets." The setting sun outside the window reflected in his eyes, "So I want to be the polar day that lights up your world."
——Later, when she counted to the eighteenth winter, the light of day finally fell on the glacier.
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* Sincere and gentle boy × Quiet and alienated girl
Intention: Go against the current and break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly
