"Peppermint Candy" is a romance novel full of youthful pain and redemption. The core image of "Peppermint Candy" connects the male and female protagonists' sadistic love that transcends pain.
Transfer student Xia Xiaoli was forced to transfer schools due to congenital heart disease. The mints she carried with her were not only her grandmother's concern, but also her secret comfort in fighting the illness. Lu Ye, the seemingly unruly school bully, was trapped in the shell of "hating the weak" due to the trauma of his mother's death in a Mint Candy car accident - until he bumped into Xia Xiaoli's trembling fingertips when she was ill in the classroom corridor, and witnessed her pale profile in the laboratory as she endured heart palpitations and recorded data. The mint candy wrapper became the most dangerous connection between the two: he once used a candy wrapper to fold a boat and hit her textbook, and also used a candy wrapper to catch her tears on a rainy night; she discovered that the mint candy wrapper that her mother clutched before she died was hidden in his locker, and he saw the same diagnosis of "premature ventricular contractions" in her medical record.
When Xia Xiaoli learned that the surgical scar on Lu Ye's lower back was an old injury caused by rescuing her, and when Lu Ye heard her muttering "mint candies are not poison" in a coma, the two finally opened the scar in mutual torture and redemption: he quit smoking for her and developed sugar-free mints by himself; she picked up the paintbrush for him again and painted the appearance of his mother in a white coat in his memory. However, the shackles of fate have not been loosened - Xia Xiaoli's heart is gradually failing, the heart transplant consent form in Lu Ye's drawer is wet with tears, and the mint candy paper boat floats in the smell of disinfectant in the hospital corridor, becoming their last courage to fight against fate.
Through the delicate campus daily life and family secrets, the coolness and sting of "mint candies" are transformed into footnotes of youth. Amidst misdiagnosis, misunderstandings and life and death decisions, it is written how two broken souls use love as medicine to heal the wounds hidden in each other's heartbeats. The sweetness and cruelty are intertwined, and it can be called "cardiac resuscitation made of sugar paper".
Concept: The two-way structure of pain
