"Do you still remember the person you liked when you were 17?"
The hot search terms were like a rusty needle, gently picking up the scab of Lin Yuxian's memory.
Those years that have been crumpled by time are as blurry as faded old photos. The smell of exam ink, the wrinkles of school uniforms, and the music of recess are all blurred into chaotic color blocks in the memory. Only the arc at the end of the young man's eyes when he smiles has become clearer and clearer over the past twelve years, like a lone star that never falls in the night sky.
After the midsummer rain that year, they were separated from each other's world, like two ginkgo leaves blown away by the wind, each floating in different directions. This secret love, whose outcome was foreseeable from the beginning, eventually became a knot that she could never untie in her heart - lost to the cowardice of her youth and to herself who dared not speak.
My trembling fingertips crossed the screen of my mobile phone, and the prelude of "Mercury" spread into my eardrums like moonlight. Guo Ding's hoarse voice flowed in the silent night: "I'll give you a dream/.../How far will it take to enter your heart/How long will it take to get close to you/…" The names hidden in the corners of the draft paper, the exercise books torn by erasers, and the heartbeats pretending to be encountered in the corridor all turned into notes hovering in the darkness, becoming the password of her youth that she recalled over and over again.
2022/06/08
Rather than saying it is a dream for you, it is better to say it is a dream for myself. Because in the dream, there is you.
When the night penetrated the gaps in the curtains, Lin Yuxian finally fell into sleep. The chirping of cicadas penetrated the folds of twelve years and brought her back to the midsummer when she was seventeen.
There are endless math problems there, the shadows of trees swaying outside the classroom in the afternoon, and the figure sweating on the basketball court.
The unspoken throbbing hidden in the pages of the book is the most secret moist rainy season of youth.
*Note:
1. The lyrics of the song are from Guo Ding's "Mercury" and were infringed and deleted.
2. There is no intimate plot when the protagonist is underage.
3. Secret love story/main campus/slow pace/HE
4. The background of the story is fictional and has no realistic prototype.
5. Demining: The author is a newbie and his writing skills are not very good.
Intention: freedom
