Seventeen-year-old Jiang Yu has two faces.
To outsiders, he was like an iceberg with temperatures below zero. He always frowned and was too lazy to say more than three sentences. Only when facing Jiang Xu did the coldness melt into small cracks - he allowed the other party to hook his arm and act coquettishly, tolerated the young man putting a cold soda can on the back of his neck, and even patiently explained the same physics question three times.
Sixteen-year-old Jiang Xu was born with a warm yang. The mole at the end of his left eye looked like a falling star when he smiled. He was always surrounded by people, but he was the only one who lowered his guard against Jiang Yu. He will crawl into each other's arms when he is trapped by a problem, he will call "brother" in a soft and sticky voice, and he will hide all his secret dependence in the seemingly natural closeness.
In the summer when the cicadas chirped and smashed the ice sodas, two test papers with the same answers were placed against each other on the corner of the table. Jiang Yu looked at the shallow scar on the inside of Jiang Xu's wrist and suddenly realized clearly: he had already crossed the line called "boundary" towards his nominal brother.
Possessiveness is the name hidden under the scratch paper, control is the mobile phone quietly locked in the drawer, and those unspoken surges are all waiting for a midsummer re-screening - waiting for a noisy afternoon of cicadas. When Jiang Xu looked up, he could clearly see the tenderness in his eyes, which was never just that of an "elder brother".
"Brother, you seem... Afraid of me leaving?"
"... Don't make trouble."
But only Jiang Yu himself knew that what he was afraid of was not separation, but the presence of anyone around Jiang Xu who could make him smile the same way.
This is a story about the brother Bai Qie and the black vinegar king, and the younger brother who knows how to use coquettishness as a weapon, testing and pulling in the middle of summer, and finally letting the secret thoughts come to light.
Concept: Love beyond gender