Wang Yuan forgot when he would put some crystal candy in his pocket, all year round. So much so that when he tasted the familiar taste of fruit in his mouth, he knew that his emotions were already on the verge of danger. Miraculously, the sweetness always dissipates his anger and sadness, and when a candy melts completely in his mouth, he calms down.

It may be that the sweet taste is too happy, and he gradually fell in love with eating desserts, even if there were more and more fans later, he couldn't quit his habit of going to the dessert shop to buy desserts.

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He can probably remember which day of the year he eats the most sugar. Every year after the birthday party, I take a taxi home on the night, the feeling of loneliness is particularly strong, leaning on the car window to look at the dim street lights along the way, looking at the road that has been empty, all the way home is alone, it is all the night.

In fact, he is very envious of those children who can celebrate their birthdays at home. Buy a simple cake, call a few close friends, and with your family, light candles, make wishes, blow out candles, and eat cake. The rest of the cake was used for pranks and smeared on other people's faces.

Maybe everyone is used to it, but fans will regard this day as more important, in fact, he was looking forward to his birthday when he was a child, and always felt that this day belonged to him, had special significance, and some lucky things would happen. However, now, the hot search on Weibo on this day belongs to itself, and it will be promoted in various places in China, as if this day is only his birthday. But he no longer had a sense of ritual, and gradually became numb and had nothing to look forward to.

When he got in the car, he began to peel candy wrappers, one by one, until he got home, his mouth was full of sweetness, and he slept well, and the next day he woke up again and it was another beautiful day.

As an adult, he was more able to control his emotions and eat sugar less and less, but this habit did not change. Occasionally, he would hand the candy to the staff around him, when they were angry, when they were anxious. However, he would take the candy wrapper back, rinse it, and put it in his glass jar, the transparent cellophane refracted rainbow-like colors in the sun, and every color in it had saved himself once.

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Ye Tang's happiest day of the year was on her birthday, when her grandmother would pick her up from school and give her a whole jar of crystal candy. There are 356 of them, which is exactly the amount of one per day. But she couldn't help it, and she finished eating it in less than half a year. No one knew that on those nights when she was full of beatings and scolding, she would quietly eat two candies, and then hold back her tears.

For the remaining half a year, she was really sad that she had no candy, so she would lick the candy wrappers she had collected, and the little sweetness left on them made her count the days, hoping that time would pass sooner, faster.

However, on his 15th birthday, Ye Tang did not wait for his grandmother, who was in the ICU at that time and died within a few days. No one buys her candy anymore. In those days, her father's deterioration intensified, and she no longer shed tears, but just washed and dried the candy paper in her grinning mouth, and folded them carefully into thousands of paper cranes, threaded them, and hung them on the windowsill. Every paper crane on it is her comfort. She looked at the thousands of paper cranes that were blown by the wind, and even if she had money later, she had never eaten crystal candy again.

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That night in the park of Boston, when Wang Yuan handed her the crystal candy, she felt that she was about to hold back her tears. He was the first person to hand his grandmother candy after she died. In her mind, her grandmother touched her head and said with a smile that coincided with Wang Yuan's words:.

"When you're unhappy, take a candy."