Amid the cicadas' cries at seventeen, Lin Wei and Gu Xun went from desk mates to harboring secret feelings. The tenderness hidden in their workbooks, the umbrella they shared in the rain, the silent protection through the late hours: these had been the warmest light of their youth. But the winds of senior year came rushing in. Under the weight of what seemed like fate, he deliberately distanced himself, while she slowly grew heartbroken amid a sea of misunderstandings.
Though they loved each other deeply, they kept moving farther apart. Though neither could bear to let go, they said nothing. They chose universities in the north and south, stood far apart in their graduation photo, and spent long nights waiting alone on the sports field. The love they never managed to confess was ultimately buried deep by time.
After that, mountains and seas lay between them, and they never met again. No reunion, no explanation, no coming to terms. That summer abruptly came to an end, and the love they felt at seventeen became a wound that would never heal for the rest of their lives.
