A Summer Like You

[Modern fantasy | They save each other | Pure campus romance | Ensemble cast]

[Gentle and broken × resilient and reserved]

The gods say nothing, but send a boy to mend Lin Shu’s past, shattered beyond repair.

At sixteen, Lin Shu is an ostrich who has grown used to burying her head in the sand.

She is afraid of red, of rumors, and even more afraid of the summer that passed because of her.

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Then Chen Wu appears. Like a bullet charging headlong, he shatters the protective shell she built from pain.

He writes her name on a glass window, becomes a light in a dark parking garage, and tells her, “It wasn’t your fault.”

Lin Shu thinks her “god” has heard her prayers and sent Chen Wu to her.

But when she finally gathers the courage to turn and walk toward him, she sees a back just as scarred as her own.

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Years later, when Lin Shu looks back from the other side of time, she realizes the boy’s secret is like an orange soaked by the rain, both tart and bright.

It turns out every time he “happened” to appear was part of a long-planned “return through time.”

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“Next time we meet, you’ll understand.”

She took her whole youth to reach the “next time” he spoke of.

I never pluck the moon, yet the moon falls to earth for me.