[Fake secret love comes true/self-redemption]
[Sober and Enthusiastic * Wanton Tenderness]
In the first year of junior high school, Xu Qingran created a ray of light for himself.
The days after transferring to another school were like sinking into deep water, until one afternoon when the cicadas were chirping, she looked up and saw the boy in front of the honor roll. The sunlight stretched his shadow very long, extending to her feet.
Fu Jingxu, the first grader in the third grade of junior high school.
Later it became an evergreen tree that she drew three hundred times in her diary.
She relied on his name to survive the ridicule, relied on imagining his existence to survive the late nights of answering questions, and relied on looking at his window to survive the lonely gym class.
On graduation day, she slipped a note into his old dictionary:
"I know you are not the light, but thank you for being my cover."
——
Years later, the shadows of the evergreen trees are still mottled, like the sunshine of that summer, mixed with the mint-scented breeze.
She originally thought that what she liked was just the shadow that appeared like light when she was most confused.
But when she tried to pull away, she found that it had already taken root in her heart and was growing quietly.
——
One day while tidying up the storage room, she came across the dictionary. Next to the word "burn" on page 422, there is a photo of her when she was in the third grade of junior high school. The edges are curled, as if she had been touched countless times.
What made her breathing even more stagnant was the yellowed draft paper sandwiched between the title pages——
"I saw that girl again today. She was standing by the playground in a daze, like a lost cat."
The date was the third day after she transferred to another school.
——
I made it up for a whole summer before I realized you were real.
Concept: High mountains have their own travel routes, and deep waters have their own ferrymen.