Cicadas Sing on Summer Nights, I Play for You from Dawn to Dusk

A bittersweet love story of mutual healing, featuring a cool, reserved boy × a stubborn girl

That summer, at sixteen, cicadas buzzed incessantly and the sun blazed overhead. A boy who seemed entirely out of place entered An Qin's world: He Jinzhao. Like a proud prince abandoned in the countryside, he carried an air of aloofness and a body marked with scars as he silently moved into the home she shared with her grandmother. An Qin was like a stubborn sunflower, clumsily and persistently trying to warm this ice that kept everyone at a distance. She had no idea how deeply their brief encounter would mark both their lives.

The wheels of fate turned mercilessly. Years later, when they met again on a university campus, the boy of old had shed his youthful innocence and become even more inscrutable. Family secrets, a life sold for money, and the truth behind her grandmother's death formed a vast web that bound An Qin tight. In a manner almost cruel, He Jinzhao tore away every tender pretense and dragged her into a prison built of obsession and possession. He used hurt to conceal his love and control to express his fear. His humble, unrequited love from their youth had warped over the years into a raging storm capable of destroying everything.

This is a story of mutual devotion and healing that spans ten years. Faced with He Jinzhao's madness and vulnerability, An Qin chooses the hardest path. She is no longer a girl who can only passively endure. With her own strength, she bravely fights the injustices of fate and tries to protect the boy who tends his wounds alone in the dark, his heart already shattered beyond repair. As every misunderstanding and hurt is gradually soothed.