(The author is terrible at coming up with names, so the title and protagonist's name are provisional and may change later. This story was inspired by real experiences of people around me.)
This is a story about a younger brother who has a crush on his older brother's girlfriend.
A line from an old song plays on repeat in Jiang Huai's car:
"...It's clearly a movie about three people, yet somehow there's never a place for me."
Every time the melody starts, he can't help thinking of Ye Yang.
He often has the absurd thought that, at the moment of quantum entanglement, her ears might suddenly start burning.
He's loved Ye Yang for fifteen whole years. His youth held no one else; from beginning to end, it was all Ye Yang.
But the girl who filled his entire youth had someone else in hers.
That person was his older brother.
A little bonus scene:
Ye Yang buys a train ticket back to Qingcheng. Thirteen years have passed, and at last she's decided to return for a visit.
When their old classmates hear she's coming back, they organize a reunion. Everyone's having a good time drinking, and they egg each other on to play Truth or Dare.
When the bottle points to Jiang Huai, he chooses truth. Their former class beauty, now a rich wife married to the son of a local Qingcheng property developer, eagerly asks what he regrets most.
Jiang Huai is silent for a moment, then suddenly smiles. "When we got split into different classes in our second year of high school, I turned down everyone's yearbook because I was waiting for one person's." His voice drops. "But I scared her. She thought I was refusing everyone, and never gave me her yearbook. After that, I lost touch with her."
Ye Yang freezes. Her glass slips from her hand and clinks against the table. Everyone turns at the sound. Amid all those gazes, she sees Jiang Huai staring intently at her.
Theme: I love you, and that has nothing to do with you.
