Lu Mingfei: I Won't Slay the Dragon Anymore

Lu Mingfei has had one thing since he was a child: not to stand out. His grades are decent, he doesn't talk much, and his presence is like a glass of room-temperature boiled water. He thought college would end like this—sitting in a corner, unnoticed, and graduating peacefully. But life did not give him this opportunity. In the first week of school, a piece of sanitary napkin put him on the front page of the campus forum. He became the most famous freshman in the school, and the reason for his fame had nothing to do with excellence. The red-haired senior who handed him the water and the note handed over by another red-haired girl reminded him: Even if you just want to be transparent, someone will see you. Some people use it to say goodbye, and some people use it to express love. Most people just stay in your life for a short while and then leave. You didn't think anything was wrong at the time, but when you look back later, you realize that the color during that time was different from other places. Those of us who didn't go to slay the dragon, were blowing the autumn evening breeze on the balcony of the dormitory, swallowing the unspoken words, squeezing the empty beer cans, and continuing to live an ordinary day. But those ordinary days turned into days that would never come back.