The Growth Rings of the Sycamore Tree in the Notebook

The spring days in Qingyi Middle School are always sifted into pieces of gold by the sycamore leaves. Su Xiaosen, a reserved academic master, used to use a notebook to record campus details, but one day he left his notebook behind and was picked up by Lu Yi, a transfer student with a basketball specialty. This aloof and slightly arrogant boy used the "wrong description of sycamore tree bark" as an opportunity to open up her world. He collaborated with blackboard newspapers at cultural festivals, shared basketball memories in the gym, handed over umbrellas with stickers on rainy days, and quietly held up reminder notes when receiving awards. The small interactions made her heart slowly ferment. The turning point came on the eve of the city basketball league qualifiers: Lu Yi's old wrist injury relapsed, and the coach persuaded him to withdraw from the game to recuperate. He panicked but refused to show weakness, and began to deliberately avoid Su Xiaosen, even coldly rejecting the notebook she handed over; Su Xiaosen caught him arguing with his teammates, mistakenly thinking that she had become a "burden" of his basketball dream, feeling wronged and distressed, the relationship between the two dropped to a freezing point, and the name "Lu Yi" no longer appeared in her notebook. It wasn't until the start of her third year of high school that Su Xiaosen was sorting out her old belongings and found the medical slip Lu Yi had secretly tucked into her notebook and the note "I didn't tell you because I was afraid you would worry." She rushed to the basketball court with her notebook in her arms and saw Lu Yi practicing with injuries, and all misunderstandings were instantly solved. Later, she accompanied him in rehabilitation, and he helped her with math. When he scored a key goal in the basketball game, he looked at her immediately. Under the cherry blossom tree, he used an old basketball to confess, "I have already had you in my dream." They shared wrong question papers and hot milk when preparing for the senior high school exam, and the new notebook in the graduation season and the agreement with the same university became the best footnote of youth. From the budding of the sycamore tree to walking side by side, this is a youthful story of Qingyi Middle School hidden between notebooks and basketballs, full of understanding and protection.