In the second year of high school, plane trees covered the entire campus. Su Zhixia hid her feelings for Lu Tingyan in the folds of her draft paper.
She was quiet and reserved, while he was cool and dazzling. An unreachable distance lay between them.
She thought she was the only one lost in this silent crush, never knowing that the aloof top student everyone admired had stolen countless glances at her.
The space between their desks, the youth piled beneath mountains of homework, and the carefully hidden stirrings of two young hearts.
There was no grand, passionate beginning, only a quiet fondness taking root in the small moments of everyday life.
It turned out that every distant gaze had been met with a longing just as deep.
The story was only beginning, on a midsummer day when they were seventeen.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
