[Rekindled love + groveling pursuit + both leads are each other's first and only + reunion after years apart]
[She was the only light in the ashes of his youth, and the firework he extinguished with his own hands twice.]
[I put out the light of that midsummer with my own hands. For the rest of my life, all I ask is the chance to get one inch closer to her.]
[It's not that I don't love you. There's a darkness you cannot enter.]
They first met on a summer day filled with cicadas in Li Su. She pursued him passionately, while he quietly fell for her. They shared a birthday and made promises about their future, a secret that belonged to the two of them alone. But fate swept them apart, and Lin Xu was forced to leave without a word twice, shattering every promise. Years later, the old flames met again. He made up for all the tenderness that had come too late, giving it to the girl he had let down in their youth. In the end, he gave her every ounce of tenderness he had, hoping to win back the girl he'd lost in that summer when they were eighteen.
“Lin Xu, you left without a word twice. What makes you think I'd still be here waiting for you?”
“I spent my entire youth trying to prove I was worthy of you, but I forgot that all you ever wanted was the eighteen-year-old me who never left that summer.”
Beautiful, beautiful and well written