Expired Summer

When they first met, the moment Chen Yang borrowed the eraser, the touch of his fingertips was like an electric current. Later, they became studio partners, and he took on the difficult tasks for her, adjusting Monet's purple. Suddenly, Chen Yang's father died and he was left with debts. He skipped classes, became addicted to tobacco and alcohol, and was even surrounded by gangsters in the billiard hall. Faced with Su Nian's persistence, he pushed her away on the grounds that she was "not worthy" and disappeared from the studio. Three months later, they met by chance in the hospital and he asked her to forget about him. Many years later, Su Nian saw a late-summer studio painting at an art exhibition and recognized the familiar purple color of Monet, but it had an unfamiliar signature. The boy who said "summer will expire, but I won't", eventually became the expired memories of her youth together with the summer when the cicadas kept chirping.