Xia Xiaoman always thought that the story between her and Lin Che began with a chance encounter in the library on the first day of her second year of high school - when she was dizzy due to hypoglycemia, the cool academic boy handed her a mint candy. But later she learned that this "accidental encounter" was the 17th "coincidence" that he had carefully planned.
Mint-flavored sea salt candy became their secret. Every Friday, Lin Che would put a candy in her desk. The candy wrapper was the same light blue color as her essay book. Xia Xiaoman collected all these candy wrappers, but he didn't know that Lin Che's notebook was filled with observation notes about her: "Xia Xiaoman hates math but likes mints. On Wednesday afternoons, he will go to the second seat by the window in the library."
When Xia Xiaoman accidentally saw the search record of "How to get girls to notice me" on Lin Che's phone, this boy who was always expressionless turned red in front of her for the first time. When he suddenly disappeared for two weeks in his senior year of high school, what was left to her was a whole box of mints hidden in the middle of her schoolbag, with "Waiting for me to come back" written on the bottom of the box.
At the graduation ceremony, Lin Che gave her a glass jar with 365 handmade mints inside. Each piece of candy wrapper is printed with confessions that he dare not say: "On March 14, you praised the candy for being delicious, so I bought out all the stock in the canteen." "On May 20, I gave you the candy, but I haven't saved up enough courage yet."
Many years later, their wedding invitation contained a mint candy with the words: "This time is not a secret love, it is for the rest of my life."
Intention: The tenderness hidden in daily life is the longest confession of love. Deep expression: 1. The ritual sense of secret love - using peppermint candies as clues, it shows how those loves that dare not be expressed verbally in youth become concrete through small actions. 2. The sustainability of love - from careful care in school to firm choice of each other in adulthood, reflecting the precipitation and growth of love over time. 3. The romance of ordinary things: a piece of candy, a piece of candy wrapper, these ordinary objects become shining coordinates in life because of the sincerity poured into them.