The chirping of cicadas and old stairs in the small town create the setting for the story. I am on the second floor, looking up at Tong Huaimo on the fourth floor. She is like a bright and clear moon, free and magnanimous, a sample of life that I have never seen before. Through those youthful preludes of summer nights and peppermint candies, a unresolved secret love eventually settled into a deeper enlightenment of life - her existence opened up my conventional world and revealed the possibility of being true to myself.
So, when my life took a turn after the college entrance examination, I did not follow her, but I followed the courage she gave me. Departing from my family's expectations, I headed towards the northwest wilderness, where I grew from a docile garden tree into a poplar on the sand dunes. That grand secret love was revealed like lightning, and the gift of the moon made me finally bow my head, pick up my own sixpence, and take root in the place I love.
Intention: From the wet secret love by the Yuanjiang River to the magnanimous freedom in the northwest wind, I can complete this journey of youth alone.
