She Hid in the Summer

[Mutual salvation + two top students + mutual secret crushes + tragic campus romance] [The heroine dies / the hero follows her in death] [Meng Suining x Fu Jingyan]

They met in the height of summer, and it was in the height of summer that they parted.

Rumor had it that Fu Jingyan, Peking University's most popular student, was aloof and uninterested in romance, yet everyone knew he had someone in his heart.

His roommate teased him, “So, how old is your girlfriend, anyway?”

Fu Jingyan replied softly, “Seventeen.”

His roommate was stunned. “You’re dating a minor?”

He lowered his eyes, tenderness and sorrow too deep to conceal in them. “No. We’re the same age. We got together in high school.”

His roommate was baffled and was just about to press him when he heard the young man murmur hoarsely,

“Only she’ll never grow any older.”

During the sports meet in their second year of high school, Meng Suining suddenly collapsed on the track. She was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

The girl who had shone like a little sun and brightened his bleak life never got to walk through Peking University's gates with him. She remained forever in the summer of her seventeenth year.

Carrying the promise they had made together, he completed his university years alone, then went to her side on graduation day.

But even in death, several cold gravestones still lay between them. Just like that summer, they were close enough to touch, yet could never feel each other’s warmth again.