The admission notice arrived amidst the chirping of cicadas, becoming a token that spans life and death. Zhou Yang held the hot envelope and saw the wrinkles of time in the July fire.
The math problems written under the desk lamp three years ago were fogging up on the glass window. The seventeen-year-old boy and the fifteen-year-old girl filled the draft paper with function formulas and teenage worries. Mints melted into crystal amber in the drawer.
The sound of drips in the chemotherapy room drowned out the vibrations of mobile phones, and painkillers and fever-reducing patches were piled on the bedside. The only college code on the college entrance examination application form is the girl's last willfulness.
The sycamore leaf bookmark is sandwiched in the admission notice, and the star trails bloom into blue butterflies in the rain. The boy picked up similar fallen leaves on the campus boulevard and heard the echoes of the past.
Concept: The love between a boy and a girl is as bitter and sweet as a green apple.