The Moon and the Stars

Xia Mingyue's youth is the evening breeze on the rooftop and the starlight in the sky. She always loved to climb to the rooftop of the teaching building after evening self-study, sit on the railing with her knees in her arms, and watch the city lights gradually extinguish, waiting for a fleeting meteor. Her notebook was filled with star trails and thoughts, and the sketch paper repeatedly sketched the profile of a young boy - Jiang Xingci, the boy who always wandered around the campus with a camera on his back. There are secrets hidden in Jiang Xingci's shots that Xia Mingyue doesn't know about. He would quietly press the shutter when she was looking at the stars, freezing the starlight in her eyes for eternity; he would hand her an orange candy when she was disappointed and say, "No matter how far away the stars are, they will still light up for you." He said he wanted to take a picture of the brightest shooting star for her, but he hid his feelings in the starlight. When Xia Mingyue finally plucked up the courage to stuff the letter she had written three times into his schoolbag, Jiang Xingci handed her a photo first - it was of her looking at the stars on the rooftop, and the stars in her eyes were brighter than the night sky. Behind the photo, there is his delicate handwriting: "I want to write down every star with you." It turns out that they are both in each other's world, secretly picking each other's stars. When the meteor streaked across the sky again, they finally understood: what they wanted to pick was never the stars in the sky, but the light hidden in each other's eyes.