Asking About Summer

Name: Asking About Summer
Author: Xie Chiheng

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by Xie Chiheng (谢池蘅)

Status: Completed
Length: 155k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Youth Sweet Romance
Updated: 10mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Song Qichi spent her entire youth looking up to a boy named Jiang Yu. He was sunny and accomplished, always at the top of his class. He would cross the pandemic lockdown lines to see her and record the fireworks unique to Nancheng for her on New Year’s. Self-conscious and sensitive, Qichi spent three years copying “The Rhapsody of Shanglin,” sealing away her love with reverence. But after the college entrance exams, a crushing sense of guilt made her leave him with a single line, “Let’s break up,” before disappearing completely. Years later, they meet again at a class reunion, and he is engaged to someone else. Then one day, among her old belongings, she finds a snowy photograph from the Palace Museum. On the back, in his familiar handwriting, are the words: “Qichi, I finally saw the snow we said we’d see together that year, on your behalf.” It turns out that the purest love means devoting your entire youth to helping each other become who you’re meant to be, only to miss each other forever.

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