Silent Flowering Period

In Su Tang's youth, Shen Jiahuai was the midsummer that never faded. The pen spinning between the young man's fingers when they first met, the long legs occasionally touching the legs of the chair behind the table, and his warm breath when he stretched out his hand to wipe the blackboard, all became the secret throbbing in her heart. The gazes hidden in the gaps in the exercise book, the melted chocolate in the hand on Christmas Eve, and the compromised choices on the application form are the clumsy and passionate poems of a girl's secret love.  Reunited after many years, the wedding ring on Shen Jiahuai's ring finger and the unsent ginkgo bookmark revealed a misplaced two-way secret love. It turned out that he had also recorded her preferences in a memo and lingered at the door of her university. When the past slowly unfolded in the sound of guitar on the school anniversary, Su Tang finally understood that those unspoken likes had already turned into rain and dew that nourished growth, and in the long river of time, bloomed into the spring that illuminates the lives of others.