short series

Breeze Whispering Through Old Times

share time: 2025-10-10 00:30:34

Lin Xiaoman, an adwoman struggling with hair loss in Beijing, returns to the ancient town she left eight years ago for the first time because of her grandma's passing. While tidying up grandma's old courtyard, she finds the paper kite she made with Gu Changfeng in high school——a regret where Gu was about to confess his love but was interrupted by her, who feared it would “affect college entrance exams”. Just as she hangs the kite at the gate, she runs into Gu Changfeng with osmanthus cake—he never left, becoming a Chinese teacher at the town's primary school and guarding the old bookstore they used to frequent. When the wind lifts the kite, revealing Gu's crayon words: “Xiaoman, I saved five orange candies”, the unspoken “I like you” from the past, Xiaoman's inferiority of “being someone who escaped”, and Gu's hesitation of “afraid she won't stay” all emerge slowly in the town's warmth. And an old photo tucked in grandma's diary is quietly pulling their past and present together...

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