[Reunion after years apart + he falls for her first + two top students + school life]
At sixteen, he promises to tell her his secret after the college entrance exams.
At seventeen, they promise to attend university together in the capital.
But the first thing she hears is that he's going abroad.
A gift she never gets to give, and the seventeenth birthday he misses.
For Zhou Leyu, it was a truly terrible summer.
*
The day before his seventeenth birthday, Ji Zexi learns that his family is sending him overseas.
His departure comes before his seventeenth birthday.
The words he never says are left behind in that summer, too.
*
Years later, they meet again. On the street where they reunite, she cries and calls him a liar.
He pulls her into his arms and says, “Mm, I am a liar. That's why I came to apologize.”
The words they couldn't say that summer finally find their happy ending this summer.
