Icing

--- ### **Book title** "Sugar-coated" (can be interpreted as "the sweetness wrapped around the bitter reality", or the "sugar-coated cannonball" is used as a metaphor to bravely break through obstacles) --- ### **Character refinement** #### **Qin Yin** - **Appearance**: Tall and thin, naturally curly, with small freckles in summer - **Character**: Seemingly casual, but actually stubborn, with amazing ability to take action on things he believes in (such as secretly changing the application form for three consecutive years and going to the same school as Wang Jin) - **Secret**: I borrowed "Homosexual Health Psychology" from the library when I was sixteen. Inside the book was a sketch paper full of Wang Jin's profile. #### **Wang Jin** - **Appearance**: She wears a ponytail all year round and has a small light brown mole on the back of her neck. Qin Yin loves to stare at it. - **Character**: There is a traitor hidden under the shell of an top student, and he will hide the failed test papers for Qin Yin. - **Details**: He always holds the lemon candies given by Qin Yin until they melt before biting them into pieces. --- ### **Chapter plot suggestions** #### **Volume 1: Summer Salt (Youth Chapter)** - **Chapter 1-3 When the cicadas are not chirping** The summer of sixteen years old unfolds from Qin Yin's perspective: while helping Wang Jin tutor math, she was distracted and counting her eyelashes. On a rainy day, they held an umbrella together and ran through the old street. The water droplets from Wang Jin's hair fell on her collarbone - Qin Yin suddenly hoped that the rain would never stop. - **Chapter 4-6 Before lemon candy melts** Suggestions for the seventeen-year-old confession scene: Qin Yin wrote the confession on the back of Wang Jin's chemistry test paper ("If the neutralization reaction requires equal amounts of acid and alkali, then my love for you will always be excessive"). The two hid in the abandoned observatory and kissed, tasting the sour lemon candy residue on each other's lips. - **Chapter 7-9 Gold-Plated Birdcage** The conflict broke out: Wang Jin's mother found a group photo tucked in the diary (Qin Yin wrote tiny love letters on the edge of the photo), and threatened to break off the relationship. When Qin Yin was forcibly sent out of the country, he threw a can of peeled macadamia nuts at the door of Wang Jin's house (Wang Jin once said, "I like them the most but I find it troublesome to peel them"). #### **Volume 2: Hibernation (Separation)** - **Chapter 10-12 Time difference of six thousand kilometers** Wang Jin's perspective: She secretly registered an Instagram account to follow Qin Yin, and saw photos of him watching the aurora in Iceland with their friendship bracelet on his wrist; Qin Yin deliberately passed by the downstairs of Wang Jin's company every time he returned home, but never had a successful "accidental encounter". - **Chapter 13-15 Sugar-coated specimen** Two parallel lines: Qin Yin smashed the glass of the gallery on a blizzard night in New York and stole a painting "The Girl and the Cicada" (resembling Wang Jin); at the same time, Wang Jin folded a butterfly with candy paper and pressed it under the napkin at the blind date dinner and escaped. #### **Volume 3: Chunrong (Reunion)** - **Chapter 16-18 Expired candy wrapper** Six years later, Qin Yin returned to China as a curator and deliberately listed Wang Jin Company as a partner when setting up the exhibition. The two met again in the conference room. Wang Jin spilled the coffee and soiled Qin Yin's suit, and found that there were still candy wrappers from that year in the lining pocket. - **Chapter 19-21 Jumanji** Qin Yin curates the "Anonymous Confessions Art Exhibition", and the exhibits are all tokens of their adolescence (faded movie tickets, scratch paper filled with calculations). Wang Jin used a laser pointer to shine at Qin Yin in the corner at the exhibition site - this was the way they passed codes in high school. --- ### **Key scene expansion example** **Scene: First Kiss at the Observatory** > Qin Yin gently poked the small mole on the back of Wang Jin's neck with the corner of the test paper: "The third question is wrong." > "What's wrong?" When Wang Jin turned his head, the tip of his nose brushed against her chin, and his breath was sweet like frosting. > Qin Yin suddenly didn't dare to look into her eyes, and the tip of his pen spread a blue ink galaxy on the draft paper: "... The steps are too jumpy." > In fact, it was her own fault - she should not have counted her heartbeats when the other person came closer, she should not have discovered that Wang Jin's eyelashes were amber in the sunset, and she should not have applied correction fluid to the corners of her lips at the moment when the cicadas chirped suddenly, and said: "Lend me a stamp." > Wang Jin's stunned expression made Qin Yin panic and wanted to run away, but was grabbed by the wrist. > "The seal must be stamped with the fingerprint to count." The girl lowered her head and bit her fingertip, and the bitter chemical taste of the correction fluid passed over the tip of her tongue, "... You can't run away now." --- ### **Possible imagery** - **Candy Wrap**: Symbolizes cherished memories (Qin Yin can be designed to collect candies from various countries after going abroad, but has never tasted lemon flavor again) - **Macadamia Nut**: represents "the sincerity that needs to be broken out of the shell" (after the reunion, Wang Jin gave Qin Yin a shell opener) - **Cicada shed**: Points to the unfinished transformation of adolescence (Qin Yin always stuffed the cicada shed into Wang Jin's pencil case as an amulet) Concept: Lily