Farewell, My Obsession, My Preference

Lin Li took shelter from the rain and ran into Jiangchuan's "Shiguang Bookstore". He knocked over an old poetry book and dropped out half a prescription for orange candy - a prescription given by Jiangchuan's mother to treat his hidden illness. The orange syrup in the hot cocoa, her picture book by the window, the thin calluses of her fingertips grazing the ends of her hair, asked her to note "orange candy in the bookstore" on WeChat, but she deleted it repeatedly due to the shadow of her family of origin and the scumbag: she deleted the illustrations in his handbook when she saw him on his birthday, and he deleted it because he was being made difficult by Party A, and he deleted it overnight after saying "I like you". Jiang Chuan never asked further questions, only added the date in her notebook, put "The Little Prince" with a note saying "The fox is waiting for the courage to dare to get close", and pasted her paintings all over the load-bearing wall where the demolition notices and terminal medical records were hidden. Accompanying her to reconcile with her mother, teaching her how to make sugar paste with recipes, supporting her to go to Beijing, and stuffing the iron box of orange candy before her farewell: "Come back when you are tired, the lamp and the prescription are there." Lin Li became an illustrator in Beijing and published "Lamp and Sugar", with the title page painting "A hand holding a prescription handing out orange candy"; Jiang Chuan locked up her medical records, agreements and empty sugar bowls, turned off her mobile phone and went on a hunger strike, fearing that she would face a double collapse. Lin Li suddenly returned to the small town and saw the lights on in the bookstore and her "Sunset Orange Candies" hanging on the doorknob. Opening the door, Jiang Chuan was lying on the sofa, with a notebook full of her daily records in hand, and the last page was an unfinished prescription. She cried and poured warm sugar porridge: "I will accompany you to finish the prescription." Later, they opened the "Shiguang Illustration Bookstore" in Jinghua. Lin Li's paintings included a "wheelchair hander of candy", and his notebook was filled with warm daily notes. At the book signing, Lin Li held up the book and smiled: "My Mr. Preference is the one who dares to entrust his life to me." In the audience, Jiang Chuan held her hand, and the orange candy in his palm was warm.