Before We Say Goodbye in the Rainy Season

“Youth is a torrential downpour. We walked through it barefoot, soaked to the skin, yet feeling alive for the first time.”

A senior-year high school classroom.

It rained all summer. They shared the same starry sky and ran side by side through the downpour.

Only later did Chen Mo understand that some farewells have their endings sealed from the moment the rainy season begins.

There are no miracles, only the youth of ordinary people.

The pain was real, the tears were real, and so were those small, insignificant acts of courage and warmth.

Open this book, and you’ll see yourself at seventeen.

Maybe a little disheveled, maybe awkward, but that was us: living with all our hearts, for the first and last time.