Wen Zhixia thought her story with Jiang Shubai had ended with the bittersweet graduation season of high school, as they each set off for different cities and futures.
Then, on the day she registered for college, beneath the blazing sun in Nancheng, the cool, distant figure who should have been thousands of miles away in the north appeared before her again, dragging a suitcase and looking all too real.
Had his plans changed? Was artificial intelligence a better fit? Jiang Shubai’s explanation was flawless.
But he still habitually handed her a mint to beat the heat. She discovered that his phone password was still her birthday, and countless clues quietly came to light…
Only then did Wen Zhixia belatedly remember the question he had asked on the night before they submitted their college entrance exam applications, carried away by the wind so that she never heard it clearly.
So the longest summer of unspoken feelings wasn’t about parting after all. It was about giving up my chosen course, just so I could meet you again in the same summer.
“Jiang Shubai, why are you here?” “Because wherever you are, that’s where my future is.”
Childhood sweethearts × reunion after years apart × secret crush comes true, This summer, they’ll continue the story that never reached its ending.
