Crossroads Reef

When he was fifteen years old, Lin Yuan entered the rural high school with grades that just crossed the line, like a grass seed blown away by the wind. Before that, his world was small. During the three years of junior high school, dormitories, classrooms, and canteens constituted his entire life trajectory. What he looks forward to most every week is the one-hour bus ride that takes him back to his deserted home, where he can cook his own meals and spend the night alone. Loneliness is the norm, as is hard work without results. He did not work hard, but the numbers on his transcript were always hovering in the middle and lower reaches. In the end, he only got this "only choice" for him. He thought high school was just another continuation of a dark time until he met two girls here. Like the scorching sun in midsummer, her appearance roughly tore apart the gray curtain covering his life, giving him a dizzy longing for the "future" and "distance" for the first time. Like the moonlight on a quiet night, her company silently penetrated his dry heart, allowing him to taste the stability and comfort he had never experienced before. As a result, from youth campus to real society, Lin Yuan was pushed to one choice after another. Every time, he weighed, struggled, suffered, and then, in confusion and cowardice, walked towards the fork in the road that he would regret greatly in the future. He lost the scorching sun with his own hands, and finally failed the moonlight.