[Secret Love + Redemption + Be]
She was the mint fragrance floating outside the classroom window when he was seventeen.
Like cold candy on the tip of the tongue, the sweetness is short-lived and the bitterness is long-lasting.
Everyone said they were made for each other, but she was the only one who knew——
His love is always three beats slower than hers.
(BE warning: secret love turns to dust, youth ends)
——Green plums are too ripe and cannot taste the sweetness
"In Shen Jianwei's notepad, Xu Rang's name has been written for twenty years, from the crooked pencil writing to the pen bleeding through the back of the paper."
They both ate the same mint,
One held the sugar coating in his mouth and said it was so sweet,
One chews the kernel and says it is bitter.
Later at Xu Rang's wedding,
In the wedding candy box handed over by the bridesmaid,
Lying quietly were the mints they used to buy when they were kids.
(The cruelest thing about childhood sweethearts is that even the memories are told in the third person)
"She finally understood that some candies lose their taste after being held for a long time; some people lose their identity after being loved for a long time."
Intention: growth, secret love, ("see the slightest" to understand, "allow" to complete)