Golden Age

"When Jiangcheng's cherry blossoms fell into the pocket of Shi Xia's school uniform, Jiang Yu always felt that there was an unspeakable contradiction in her body. She was the eldest daughter of the Shi family. She had a gilded cram school sheet in her school bag and a delicate family crest on the cuff of her school uniform. She stood in front of the glass curtain of the Holley Building, like a silhouette stepping out of a magazine. But she would squat outside the old noodle shop and watch the stray cats lick the bottom of the bowl, and stare at the heat of the Yangchun noodles in a daze, saying, 'Actually, the chopped green onions in the soup are more fragrant than caviar.' Jiang Yu had counted the seventeen times she had picked at the edges of her textbooks, and heard her softly ask under the cherry blossom tree, "Will a person suddenly become another person?" But he couldn't figure out why when she looked at him, her eyes were so bright that they seemed to be hiding stars, and then darkened in an instant, as if she was afraid of being discovered. She always said, 'People like me shouldn't be greedy for these things'. Maybe the wind in Jiangcheng knows the answer - why she stands in the most prosperous place, but always seems to be waiting for a farewell that no one knows. "