The year Lin Zhixia transfers to Nanchuan, all she wants is to quietly make it through her final year of high school.
Rumors from her old school, her mother’s warnings, and the stares of her new classmates all teach her to swallow her explanations. That is, until Zhou Yu’an hears her voice and sees the wounds hidden beneath her silence.
He helps her with homework, walks her home after school, waits outside the radio station while she locks up, and hides his affection in photographs, marked-up problem sets, and every careful approach.
But on the day the college entrance exams end, he doesn’t show up.
Only later does Lin Zhixia learn that it wasn’t because he didn’t want her. He left behind medical records, a voice recorder, and a video he’d made in advance, all as ways for her to keep moving forward.
This is a farewell that lingers in the summer of their eighteenth year, one she will spend the rest of her life slowly answering.
Good looking, good looking, good looking