The candy apples are arranged neatly, and the amber sugar coating reflects a honey-like luster under the fluorescent light, like pieces of sealed amber, which is so beautiful that people can't take their eyes away.
When the fingertips touch the sugar shell, there is a cold feeling, hard and perfect. I took one and put it to my mouth.
When you take a bite, the sweetness explodes on the tip of your tongue, and the sound of the sugar coating breaking is clear and sweet. But as I continued to bite, the truth under the sugar shell began to be revealed - the overripe pulp was unnaturally brown, and the sour taste of fermentation mixed with a slight smell of alcohol came up.
I chewed mechanically, and suddenly I found small holes near the core. Several milky-white maggots were protruding from the rotten pulp and squirming among the broken fibers.
She stared at the mutilated apple, murky juice oozing from the cracks in the sugar coating. Like the world she lives in - Kosten shines under the lights of the ice rink, and the golden medals on the podium are all that gorgeous sugar coating.
Underneath the sugar-coating, there was a calculating conversation in the coach's office, and a desperate step on the broken pieces of his own body to stand on the podium.
At this moment, she finally understood that she was also part of this rotten system, like those maggots, eating the dreams of others in order to survive.
The candy apple fell from her hand and shattered on the ice. There were dying insects curled up in the crystal fragments. The sugar water penetrated along the ice surface and left deep marks inside.
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