The story begins in the fictional city of Asakawa, a city in the deep north covered with tall camphor trees.
A few young people started their high school life, and everything seemed extraordinarily calm and slow, with a drowsy narrative mood unique to summer, as if the summer afternoon was as intense as splashing sunlight.
The story begins in this environment. Then, the most ordinary high school students began to have their own life journeys. Lu Zhiang's mother died of cancer, which profoundly changed his personality. Fu Xiaosi became famous because of his participation in the Jinchuan Art Competition and became a well-known illustrator throughout China. Later, the young people who had been together separated because of graduation. Lixia and Fu Xiaosi went to Beijing to continue their studies, Lu Zhiang went to Japan, and Qiqi went to Shanghai.
After meeting each other alone since childhood, he gave up his beautiful relationship with Qingtian in Asakawa and went to Beijing alone, and began to work hard to realize his dream of singing.
From then on, the fate of individuals has varied widely, and the slow and quiet narrative at the beginning was replaced by fast-paced changes. The door to the adult world opened, and the world inside unfolded in front of them bit by bit.
After Fu Xiaosi's collection of paintings was released, he became famous all over China. And Li Xia became Fu Xiaosi's assistant. Qiqi became a singer in Shanghai because she participated in a singing competition with her friends. After releasing a record, she quickly became a youth idol in China. However, Qiqi, who has been working hard to sing, lived hard in Beijing, but she still did not give up her dream of becoming the best singer...
Just when everyone was unable to see the future clearly due to the rapid collision of the world, they did not know that greater adversity was about to come. It was the events that followed that almost completely reversed and destroyed everyone's life...
Reader comments
It turns out that Lu Zhiang was sentenced to life imprisonment and Yan Mo was just a passerby.
It turns out that Fu Xiaosi, who is considered sacred in Lixia's eyes, will have a child with Qiqi.
It turns out that after the cheerful and outspoken Qiqi becomes an adult, she will also sacrifice the career of the singer she met for the sake of profit.
Life is not an utopia, and no one will always be young and in their prime.
No regrets, no youth.
In the summer of 1995-2005, from the encounter in high school to the final separation, the season of camphor trees will come back, but the summer belonging to this group of people will never come again. Time has passed, summer is over, those who grow flowers have become those who look at flowers, and those who look at flowers have become those who bury flowers. The years will eventually turn into gorgeous swallowtail butterflies, scattering dazzling phosphorus powder in the world!
Li Xia always said that Fu Xiaosi grew up with her, but she also grew up with Fu Xiaosi. She was the one who accompanied Fu Xiaosi for so many years. Lu Zhiang is a good friend and a good brother, but I feel sorry for him. When his mother passed away, it was too much to go out of his way to help his friend. In the end, I could only spend my time in jail. I felt so sorry for Fu Xiaosi. He was slandered but could not speak out. He was supposed to be the brightest painter, and there were so many. Everyone's life is very three-dimensional, and everyone's personality is very independent. Xiao Si really wrote a good book.
I just want to know if anyone is still reading this book in 2025
I watched the TV series version before and really liked Bai Jingting's Lu Zhiang. Suddenly I read the original novel. I still think Lu Zhiang is a really good character and very heart-warming. I had a crush on him for three years when I was in school.
"Time is the greatest healer. No matter how many wounds there are, they will disappear on the skin, dissolve into the heart, and become beautiful patterns on the ventricular walls." The camphor in Asakawa is still growing densely, and the people in the story are still living quietly, becoming indelible and indestructible memories in our memories.
I want to give it five stars, but I watched the TV series first (the first drama I watched on TV in the second year of junior high) before reading the novel. I deducted one star because I still like the ending of the TV series [face-covering] [face-covering] I want to see Lu Zhiang not spend the rest of his life in prison, and I want to see Li Xia and Fu Xiaosi meet again
"Summer Solstice Has Not Come" uses delicate brushstrokes to outline a group portrait of youth. Fu Xiaosi's lonely talent, Lixia's innocent hesitation, and Lu Zhiang's brilliant wounds are intertwined into a network in Asakawa City where camphor trees sway. Guo Jingming encapsulates the heat and pain of youth in the summer solstice, a bright but destined to shorten solar term. Those unspoken secret loves, unexpected separations, and struggles for self-identity allow every reader to encounter the shadow of his own youth in the pages of the book. The most touching thing about the novel is that it makes regret itself a medal of growth. Let everyone who has experienced youth find resonance in the book. In the end, these characters move on with their own scars, just like the youth each of us has gone through, beauty is destined to leave regrets.
The character Cheng Qiqi is the key to affecting everyone's life. After reading it, I really want to scold her for ruining her friend's life because of her own selfish desires. Maybe she will regret it one night. The characters are very three-dimensional, from youth campus to urban buildings, there are regrets and beauty.
I've read the physical book, and it's okay. It's not particularly sad. I think Duan Qiao's death was tragic.
I've read the physical book and this one is really sharp, oooooooooooooo, it's really painful.
After watching it so many times over the years, I still cry every time.
I am most upset about Lu Zhiang and Duan Qiao [crying] [crying] I can't accept Duan Qiao's death [crying]
Xiao Si's books have been with me in my youth, such as "Fantasy City", "How Many Flowers Have Fallen in Dreams", "Sadness Against the River"... I cried every time I read one, so much so that I stopped watching later film and television works because I was afraid that the changes would be too big to accept. I am 34 this year, and I can't bear to let film and television dramas break my memory. For Guo Jingming, those are his works, and for me, they are times that I can't get back.
This is a novel that is hard for me to explain. Every character and every inner activity depicted is so real and flesh-and-blood, and different people have distinct characteristics. Whenever I feel like things are going to get better, there will always be a turning point, and I have to face the reality. Maybe this is life
Lu Zhiang is so pitiful, really
After reading it once, I don't want to read it anymore, it's so painful.
I have a question. The article did not mention that Li Yanran and Fu Xiaosi broke up, and then it directly transitioned to Li Xia and Fu Xiaosi being together?
This book reminded me of my high school days, when we, like the characters in the book, moved forward with dreams. I especially like Fu Xiaosi, and I admire his persistence in painting. Moreover, the text of this book is very beautiful, reading it is like a summer breeze, making people feel peaceful and comfortable.
In the hot summer, the days are quiet and the young boys and girls with promising futures gather together in Asakawa No. 1 Middle School. They harvest the excitement of their youth in the three years of high school. After graduating from high school, everyone stands at the crossroads of choosing the future. They are confused about where to go. As they enter the society, their lives have undergone earth-shaking changes. Along with happiness comes tragedy. The departure of Li Xia, the betrayal of Chen Qiqi, the imprisonment of Lu Zhiang, and the death of her boyfriend finally brought irreparable regrets to them who were full of glory when they first entered the society.
I came to read it for the Yanzhi couple, but I didn't find the role of Yan Mo. I was so disappointed. However, this was the first time I read Guo Jingming's writing. It was not as bad as I heard. On the contrary, I saw the delicacy in his articles.
Finished reading this book on April 21, 2024
Is it really so difficult to find someone who loves you?
Ask what love is in the world
No, I'm very curious whether the child in Qiqi's belly is really Fu Xiaosi's? When Li Xia asked Fu Xiaosi, Fu Xiaosi remembered everything. He didn't feel guilty at all, and it was unlikely that he slept with other women while unconscious. Moreover, Qiqi aborted the child immediately after talking to Li Xia because she was afraid that the matter would be exposed. It felt like she just wanted to drive Li Xia away so that she could ascend to the throne, but she probably failed, because Fu Xiaosi's new picture album shows that she has been waiting for Li Xia and Lu Zhiang
It's okay. The last chapter and the epitaph bring the book to a perfect end. There are a bit too many embellishments. Maybe it's because I don't like reading romance novels very much. This is pretty good.
This is a trace of my youth. When I read this book, I cried like a fool [crying]
It turns out that Lu Zhiang was sentenced to life imprisonment and Yan Mo was just a passerby. It turns out that Fu Xiaosi, who is considered sacred in Lixia's eyes, will have a child with Qiqi. It turns out that after the cheerful and outspoken Qiqi becomes an adult, she will also sacrifice the career of the singer she met for the sake of profit. Life is not an utopia, and no one will always be young and in their prime. No regrets, no youth.
In the summer of 1995-2005, from the encounter in high school to the final separation, the season of camphor trees will come back, but the summer belonging to this group of people will never come again. Time has passed, summer is over, those who grow flowers have become those who look at flowers, and those who look at flowers have become those who bury flowers. The years will eventually turn into gorgeous swallowtail butterflies, scattering dazzling phosphorus powder in the world!
Li Xia always said that Fu Xiaosi grew up with her, but she also grew up with Fu Xiaosi. She was the one who accompanied Fu Xiaosi for so many years. Lu Zhiang is a good friend and a good brother, but I feel sorry for him. When his mother passed away, it was too much to go out of his way to help his friend. In the end, I could only spend my time in jail. I felt so sorry for Fu Xiaosi. He was slandered but could not speak out. He was supposed to be the brightest painter, and there were so many. Everyone's life is very three-dimensional, and everyone's personality is very independent. Xiao Si really wrote a good book.
I just want to know if anyone is still reading this book in 2025
I watched the TV series version before and really liked Bai Jingting's Lu Zhiang. Suddenly I read the original novel. I still think Lu Zhiang is a really good character and very heart-warming. I had a crush on him for three years when I was in school.
"Time is the greatest healer. No matter how many wounds there are, they will disappear on the skin, dissolve into the heart, and become beautiful patterns on the ventricular walls." The camphor in Asakawa is still growing densely, and the people in the story are still living quietly, becoming indelible and indestructible memories in our memories.
I want to give it five stars, but I watched the TV series first (the first drama I watched on TV in the second year of junior high) before reading the novel. I deducted one star because I still like the ending of the TV series [face-covering] [face-covering] I want to see Lu Zhiang not spend the rest of his life in prison, and I want to see Li Xia and Fu Xiaosi meet again
"Summer Solstice Has Not Come" uses delicate brushstrokes to outline a group portrait of youth. Fu Xiaosi's lonely talent, Lixia's innocent hesitation, and Lu Zhiang's brilliant wounds are intertwined into a network in Asakawa City where camphor trees sway. Guo Jingming encapsulates the heat and pain of youth in the summer solstice, a bright but destined to shorten solar term. Those unspoken secret loves, unexpected separations, and struggles for self-identity allow every reader to encounter the shadow of his own youth in the pages of the book. The most touching thing about the novel is that it makes regret itself a medal of growth. Let everyone who has experienced youth find resonance in the book. In the end, these characters move on with their own scars, just like the youth each of us has gone through, beauty is destined to leave regrets.
The character Cheng Qiqi is the key to affecting everyone's life. After reading it, I really want to scold her for ruining her friend's life because of her own selfish desires. Maybe she will regret it one night. The characters are very three-dimensional, from youth campus to urban buildings, there are regrets and beauty.
I've read the physical book, and it's okay. It's not particularly sad. I think Duan Qiao's death was tragic.
I've read the physical book and this one is really sharp, oooooooooooooo, it's really painful.
After watching it so many times over the years, I still cry every time.
I am most upset about Lu Zhiang and Duan Qiao [crying] [crying] I can't accept Duan Qiao's death [crying]
Xiao Si's books have been with me in my youth, such as "Fantasy City", "How Many Flowers Have Fallen in Dreams", "Sadness Against the River"... I cried every time I read one, so much so that I stopped watching later film and television works because I was afraid that the changes would be too big to accept. I am 34 this year, and I can't bear to let film and television dramas break my memory. For Guo Jingming, those are his works, and for me, they are times that I can't get back.
This is a novel that is hard for me to explain. Every character and every inner activity depicted is so real and flesh-and-blood, and different people have distinct characteristics. Whenever I feel like things are going to get better, there will always be a turning point, and I have to face the reality. Maybe this is life
Lu Zhiang is so pitiful, really
After reading it once, I don't want to read it anymore, it's so painful.
I have a question. The article did not mention that Li Yanran and Fu Xiaosi broke up, and then it directly transitioned to Li Xia and Fu Xiaosi being together?
This book reminded me of my high school days, when we, like the characters in the book, moved forward with dreams. I especially like Fu Xiaosi, and I admire his persistence in painting. Moreover, the text of this book is very beautiful, reading it is like a summer breeze, making people feel peaceful and comfortable.
In the hot summer, the days are quiet and the young boys and girls with promising futures gather together in Asakawa No. 1 Middle School. They harvest the excitement of their youth in the three years of high school. After graduating from high school, everyone stands at the crossroads of choosing the future. They are confused about where to go. As they enter the society, their lives have undergone earth-shaking changes. Along with happiness comes tragedy. The departure of Li Xia, the betrayal of Chen Qiqi, the imprisonment of Lu Zhiang, and the death of her boyfriend finally brought irreparable regrets to them who were full of glory when they first entered the society.
I came to read it for the Yanzhi couple, but I didn't find the role of Yan Mo. I was so disappointed. However, this was the first time I read Guo Jingming's writing. It was not as bad as I heard. On the contrary, I saw the delicacy in his articles.
Finished reading this book on April 21, 2024
Is it really so difficult to find someone who loves you? Ask what love is in the world
No, I'm very curious whether the child in Qiqi's belly is really Fu Xiaosi's? When Li Xia asked Fu Xiaosi, Fu Xiaosi remembered everything. He didn't feel guilty at all, and it was unlikely that he slept with other women while unconscious. Moreover, Qiqi aborted the child immediately after talking to Li Xia because she was afraid that the matter would be exposed. It felt like she just wanted to drive Li Xia away so that she could ascend to the throne, but she probably failed, because Fu Xiaosi's new picture album shows that she has been waiting for Li Xia and Lu Zhiang
It's okay. The last chapter and the epitaph bring the book to a perfect end. There are a bit too many embellishments. Maybe it's because I don't like reading romance novels very much. This is pretty good.
This is a trace of my youth. When I read this book, I cried like a fool [crying]
I really want to cry, really
Okay, I like it very much
It's really beautiful. I feel sorry for Xiao Si.
It's really nice to have a physical book.