Five years ago, while crying at the airport, Xie Xiaoran gave Lu Shining a White Rabbit candy and said, "I will come back when you go to high school." When he turned around, he didn't see that the little guy holding the candy wrapper carved "never forget" into every summer for the next five years.
Five years later, Xie Xiaoran came across a circle of friends on a flight: On the Cherry Blossom Avenue in the city's No. 1 Middle School, a young man stood under a flower tree with the text "Spring is suitable for reunion." The pheromone valve on his wrist suddenly loosened, and the crisp jasmine fragrance diffused out, as if responding to the grapefruit-sweet scent that always chased him in his memory.
Hidden in the suitcase when he returned home were yellowed group photos, unfinished star paper, and an old sweater that had been washed white—a style that Lu Shining always wore secretly when he was a child. Xie Xiaoran stood at the door of No. 1 Middle School, watching the figures in blue and white school uniforms walking under the cherry blossom trees, and suddenly remembered the agreement made back then.
It turns out that some separation is never the end, but allows longing to slowly boil into sugar over time. When the crisp jasmine fragrance collides with the sweet and sour grapefruit, and when the title "brother" comes from memory to reality, this five-year journey has just begun.
"Lu Shining," he smiled at the young man walking towards him, "I heard that you are an alpha who can protect others now?"
The tips of the young man's ears were red, and he was clenching the strap of his schoolbag exactly the same as when he was clenching the corners of his clothes nine years ago.
Intention: The awakening and pursuit of hidden emotions