Ninety-Seven Expired Candies

Youth is a grand countdown. Some people are rushing to the future in the sea of ​​questions, while others are collecting embers under the stars. On the eve of the 100th day of the college entrance examination, top student Shen Qingmo received a task from the school magazine: to interview the "heterogeneous" Xie Chenyi who is always on the verge of violating discipline. She thought it was just an ordinary interview, but she unexpectedly broke into the secret universe he built in an abandoned observatory - there were chalk heads wrapped in sugar paper, poems written with stars, and a silent farewell destined to end in midsummer. When everyone was sprinting for scores, Xie Chenyi used his increasingly difficult pace to teach Shen Qingmo how to reconcile with the most cruel countdown in life. There are no miracles in their story, only the most real hugs, unsent postcards, and ninety-seven "stars" wrapped in candy wrappers. Seven years later, Shen Qingmo finally peeled off the last piece of chalk and read the last words he left to the world: "All endings are the beginning of light."