You're More Passionate Than Summer

Childhood sweethearts + sweet romance with a tragic ending + mutual secret crushes + reunion after years apart + campus + monogamous relationship, both each other’s first and only + tragic ending

Cool physics professor × radiant flower shop owner / sharp-tongued top student childhood friend × oblivious, naive girl next door

That midsummer, the girl drew back the classroom curtains. A breeze swept through, green filled her view, and her eyes met the boy’s, clear as rippling water.

The breeze brushed his features. He was so passionate and full of life that from then on, the girl could no longer hide her feelings.

On the night he confessed, she smiled and wrapped her arms around him. “Cheng Xu, I love summer, just as I love you.”

In the hot, noisy summer, he was more passionate than summer itself.

*

Later, everything fell into place, and they set their wedding for the following spring. But no one could have imagined that a sudden avalanche would take Cheng Xu’s life.

He lay beneath a cold white sheet, and her world fell silent and dark.

“He would have turned twenty-six tomorrow. It’s New Year’s Day.”

“We promised we’d ring in the New Year together. He said he’d watch the snow with me. He broke his promise...”

“Cheng Xu really... loved lying to me.”

Her tears fell one by one, but this time there was no one left to comfort her.

Jiang Yining was lost and despairing.

Not long ago, they had been holding hands in the courtyard, watching the snow. He gazed at her with tender affection. “Jiangjiang, we’re getting married next spring.”

But now, she would never see that day.

“Cheng Xu, I don’t love summer anymore.”

*

A week later, the beloved wife of a physics professor at Mingshan University, unable to bear the pain of losing her husband, took sleeping pills at 9:09 p.m. on January 8. She died despite efforts to save her.

Amid endless snow, he was laid to rest in winter.

With spring on its way, she drowned in a dream.

May Qiancheng find peace and health. Let us pass through winter, not endure a bitter winter. May no one be separated by death, and may all find peace and happiness.