Summer on Fifth Star Street

Title: Summer on Five Star Street

Synopsis: Wang Jun had liked Yang Xiaodong ever since their days at Five Star Elementary School. She liked the way he looked in his school uniform on the flag-raising platform, and how he always took the long way home to wait outside Experimental Elementary School for a girl named Zheng Anqi. Yang Xiaodong never noticed her. His world revolved around Zheng Anqi, the girl who danced best at Experimental Elementary and whose eyes curved into crescent moons when she smiled.

The year they graduated from elementary school, Wang Jun quietly tucked her feelings away in her diary. She thought starting middle school would put enough distance between them to make those feelings fade. But as luck would have it, she and Yang Xiaodong ended up at the same middle school, and Zheng Anqi got in too. Wang Jun watched Yang Xiaodong bring Zheng Anqi milk every day, carry her schoolbag, and tilt his umbrella so it covered her more than him whenever it rained. Jealousy wound around her heart like a vine, leaving her gasping for breath.

In eighth grade, Wang Jun met Li Zhiwei, a boy from outside school. She only wanted to “teach” Zheng Anqi a lesson and make her stay away from Yang Xiaodong. But things got out of hand. After school one day, Li Zhiwei and his friends cornered Zheng Anqi in an alley. Wang Jun stood to one side, trembling all over. She wanted to yell for them to stop, but no sound would come out. When Yang Xiaodong rushed in, he was like a ray of light. He shielded Zheng Anqi and stood alone in front of her. In the chaos, a heavy blow struck the back of his head. He fell