Sorry, Dear Right Cheek
She yearns for love, and certainly has fewer opportunities than others, but she still has the right to be noble and make choices.
She leaned against a palm tree, softly reading an English text. This was a twilight silhouette, occasionally disturbed by the wind lifting a few strands of her messy hair, brushing her delicate left cheek… Standing not far away, Li Jian couldn’t help but press the shutter. After the “click,” the two of them looked at each other in panic. He smiled first, then saw a hint of annoyance on her face, but it quickly turned into a kind of shy panic.
Thinking he had offended her, he walked over to apologize: “I’m from the Art Department, I like photography, and your silhouette just now was really beautiful…” When she slowly raised her head and turned her face, he suddenly saw a birthmark on the right side of her face, like half of a river and mountain. He immediately felt very guilty and changed his tone: “Sorry.”
“It’s okay, but please give me the photo when it’s developed.” Li Jian felt relieved at her understanding smile and noted her name—Aqi. She was like a jade with a flaw, he thought with pity, then wrote down her dorm building and room number in his palm…
On the way back, her contradictory face kept replaying in his mind. The left side was sunny, the right side was cloudy. Why was the creator so cruel? Such a good girl, pushed from day into night like this.
The night was Aqi’s warmest protective color. Youth still needed to soar; hair couldn’t cover that mark, so the darkness of night was her most welcome companion. When she was a child, every time she took an exam, she would deliberately leave a few questions unanswered because she was afraid of being the top student in the class again, which would mean being named an “Excellent Student” and having to go on stage to receive an award in front of all the teachers and students.
She was scared of such a grand exposure, so she preferred to score lower. This was a sad secret in her growing up.
Sometimes, when she looked in the mirror and touched her innocent left cheek, she would secretly cry: “Sorry, dear left cheek, the right cheek makes you very embarrassed!”
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