On the afternoon when he hid in the corner bookstore on a rainy day, Shen Ye smelled the smell of Lin Yan for the first time - not the thick ink of a new book, nor the calmness of old paper, but like a white shirt that had been dried by the sun, wrapped in the refreshing mint fragrance, which suddenly spread into his nose.
He is a freelance illustrator who is always tired, and is used to hiding his emotions in the lines of his sketchbook; he is the owner of a bookstore, his shirts are always ironed, and even the smell of laundry detergent seems to have been carefully adjusted.
One always thinks of the smell of peppermint when working on a manuscript late at night, and the other is suddenly fascinated by a wrinkled illustration book while tidying up the bookshelf.
Later, Shen Ye learned that some smells are like vines, which will quietly wrap around the frequency of your heartbeat without you noticing. And Lin Yan also slowly discovered that the figure who always wore a black hoodie could make his tense nerves relax more than peppermint.
It turns out that my liking is like this: I started noticing the smell on his shirt, and then I couldn't help but wonder if I could get closer to that gust of wind.
Concept: Concept: Using "smell" as a secret carrier of emotion, it describes the process of two people with contrasting personalities in a modern city, from being attracted to each other's "specialness" (mint smell/free breath) to gradually peeling off the surface and seeing each other's inner folds - it turns out that real closeness is never Being moved by a certain labeled trait, instead accepting all the contradictions and truths of the other person: loneliness hidden in his neatness, softness wrapped in his uninhibitedness. In the end, through getting along day after day, "mint flavor" changed from the original heartbeat symbol to an exclusive imprint belonging to the two people with the warmth of life.