short series

The Year Moonlight Flooded the Earth

share time: 2025-11-27 06:00:58

Lin Xiaoman returns to the old alley she left a decade ago for her grandma’s funeral. While sorting old items, a crumpled orange candy wrapper in her high school diary stabs her heart—at 17, she and Chen Mo promised to “see the seaside moonlight after the college entrance exam,” but Chen Mo vanished suddenly before the exam. She left with the grudge of “being abandoned.” Late at night, hanging clothes on the rooftop, she bumps into a man crouching in the jasmine bushes—it’s Chen Mo, clutching that candy wrapper. His voice cracks: “I’ve waited here for moonlight every year, scared you’d lose your way back.” Moonlight spills over his graying temples—turns out he’d hidden himself to work at a construction site for her grandma’s surgery fee, fearing he’d be a burden…

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