[Ensemble cast + one-on-one romance + two top students + bittersweet healing + falling for each other]
[Gentle, sharp-tongued, loyal puppy of a boy × mild-mannered, sensitive girl who pretends to be obedient]
On his way home from school, Su Jingchuan excitedly waved at his deskmate and got hit by a car.
As he lay unconscious, the heart-wrenching scenes in his dreams felt so real that it was as if he had truly lived through them.
So the first thing he said when he woke up was, “Wife, don’t go!”
Jing Li: “?”
*
The boy choked back a sob, his eyes red. “Wife, I remember now.”
He remembered everything that had sunk into the cracks between his bones, until it had become part of him.
Jing Li was baffled. “Looks like the collision really did damage your brain.”
His draft paper was covered in sketches of Jing Li. Later, he failed to hide his notebook properly, and she saw it.
In that moment, the world fell silent, and a ripple became the stirrings of love.
From then on, a mottled summer was better than a bone-chilling winter,
and the summer’s wild boy finally got a glimpse of her.
*
They adopted a cat together and named it Shengsheng.
Later, the cat fell from a building.
Jing Li felt as if the cat were licking her aching heart with its tiny, prickly tongue.
The moment her mother pushed the cat from the eighteenth floor,
“Shengsheng,” a name meaning life everlasting, became an eternity of torment.
*
At twenty-two, amid a sea of blue lavender,
as cicadas mocked the endless length of summer,
and woodpeckers tapped at the emptiness of winter,
Jing Li heard the boy’s whispered words in the desolation:
“This time, don’t leave me alone, okay?”
