When the Cicadas Sing in Summer

Gentle boy x sensitive girl

The day Xia Zhixiao first met Lu Shiqi, Liancheng was hit by a rare torrential downpour.

Back then, the boy wore a spotless white T-shirt. He bent down and handed her an umbrella, while she crouched on the ground in a sorry state, daring only to sneak a look at his retreating figure. In the end, she even forgot to thank him.

Years later, Xia Zhixiao finally returned that umbrella to him.

Lu Shiqi looked at her just as gently as he had back then.

Only now, he could no longer speak, nor could he softly comfort her and tell her not to cry, or raise a hand to wipe away the tears at the corners of her eyes.

The seasons changed, and everyone grew up.

Only the two of them remained trapped: one in the past, the other in time. Neither could escape that downpour.

They say cicadas sleep underground for seventeen years before they awaken.

“So, Class Monitor, we’ll meet again in seventeen years, right?”

Blurb revised on 2025/12/22

Coming next: Faded Love Letter

Sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, tsundere puppy who wins himself over x slow-to-react, excitable hedgehog

After transmigrating, Zhou Ruan is told by the System that if she wants to stay alive, she has to win over this world’s male lead, Ji Chi: the famously warmhearted, stone-faced school heartthrob with a face as cold as ice.

But on a stormy night, in a muddy alley,

Zhou Ruan is soaked to the skin and nearly pounds the iron gate in front of her off its hinges, yet no one comes to open it.

The next second, the brightly lit house goes completely dark.

“...What happened to the warmhearted male lead?”

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Only after the noise outside the door finally dies away do the hands gripping the doorknob, their veins bulging and knuckles pale as ice, suddenly go limp like withered leaves.

Through the rain and mist, the lonely figure of the girl looks exactly like the one drawn in Ji Chi’s diary.

Rain sprays into his eyes, stinging them, but he dares not close them.

Because every time he closes his eyes, she disappears.

Moral: Keep striving forward