I Thought I Had Caught Summer

Qin Ye, a sophomore in the arts and athletics class, thinks youth is all about skipping class, playing video games, and goofing off with his childhood friend Zhang Yang. That changes when the transfer student Chen Zui, giving a speech in the sunlight at the flag-raising ceremony, catches his eye.

Cool and dazzling, she is the top student in the school. He is an athlete who has long been at the bottom of his class. The two should have had nothing to do with each other, but a chance encounter in which he saves her binds their fates together.

But Qin Ye forgets that Shen He, who has been by his side for nearly twenty years, is still there. Gentle and devoted, she gives up a place in the honors class for him, quietly helps him copy lines as punishment, and brings him breakfast, hiding all her feelings in small acts of companionship.

On one side is Chen Zui, his love at first sight, whose hand makes his heart race too fast to hide. On the other is Shen He, his childhood friend, whose tender gaze could drown him.

When a rebellious boy meets a love that goes both ways, will this summer see him choose the first love that made time stand still, or the childhood friend who has warmed all these years?

“Qin Ye, will you be part of my summer?”

“Chen Zui, this summer, I only want to stand by your side.”

The hardest choices of youth hold the most fervent heartbeats and the most reluctant attachments. Open this book and relive that summer's cicadas, evening breeze, and youthful secrets~