[Mutual Healing × Love at First Sight × Tragic BE Romance]
Reserved, resilient heroine × Outwardly warm, inwardly empty hero
The rainy season in a southern town always comes wrapped in dampness that never seems to lift.
When Ruan Zhixia hid her diagnosis deep in her desk drawer, she also tucked her college entrance exam admission ticket beneath the glass desktop.
In the end, she never made it into the exam hall.
Then Xie Jingci suddenly showed up at her family's guesthouse, dragging a suitcase.
He would sit with her beneath the loquat tree and count raindrops, and dream with her about what life at university would be like.
The cosmos flowers in town began to bud. Then Xie Jingci suddenly said, "When they're in full bloom all over the hills in September, when we go to Beijing to register at our universities, let's be together, okay?"
Ruan Zhixia looked at the light in Xie Jingci's eyes and nodded.
She began checking the capital's weather with him and listening to him talk about their future dorms. She even secretly drew two figures side by side in her diary.
But the diagnosis in the drawer grew thicker, and the red she coughed onto tissues was like plum blossoms falling on snow.
September arrived right on time, and the universities in the capital opened for the new term.
Xie Jingci stood beneath the dormitory building holding a bouquet of cosmos flowers. What came was not Ruan Zhixia, but her death certificate and a pressed cosmos petal.
The handwriting on the letter was faint, as though afraid to disturb anyone: "I'm sorry, Xie Jingci. I don't think my flowers will last until your autumn."
