The heavy hammer dropped by the college entrance examination nailed Teng Moqing to this province. Panic that had nothing to do with scores gnawed at her day and night - Liu Xianyan, two thousand kilometers away in the north, was slipping out of her gravitational circle inch by inch.
High school memories have become fuses that are repeatedly lit and extinguished: the close backs in the classroom, the moonlight shared on the rooftop... The once intimate resonance has now become her tired silence during the video call. Anxiety is woven into thorns: serial calls, inquiries about the itinerary, long messages edited late at night - she is like a cry for help dancing wildly on the ice, and every time she gets closer, the cracks become deeper.
Watching the once passionate love cool down in silence again and again.
The final chapter of the winter vacation hotel. The heat bakes the fishy sweetness of despair. Teng bit into the fragile flesh of Liu Xianyan's collarbone, and the taste of rust spread between her lips and teeth: "Will you always remember me?" She also knew that it was not a question, but an anchor thrown by a drowning person against the ebbing tide.
The only responses to her were Liu's suppressed breathing and the sound of the heavy snow outside the window obliterating the tracks.
Eight years is enough time for anxiety to settle.
Fate pushed the worn tape back into the card slot.
The ad-hoc interdepartmental project was like a sap, slamming them back into the same conference room. Liu Xianyan's name appeared calmly on the docking list.
——Is the mark on the collarbone still there?
——Has the snow that night eaten through their bones?
——Did that unspoken response finally turn into a vortex enough to drown the two of them?
Eight years of accumulated pain, unwillingness and unquenched embers are about to set off new waves from the depths of the hidden tooth mark on the collarbone.
Dedicated to all those who have drowned in love.
Will the shipwreck become the island of reunion this time?
Purpose: Let everyone find themselves in love