Shen Tingxia had been Gu Yanche's "best friend" for seven years.
She remembered everything he liked, comforted him every time his heart was broken, and was always there when he needed her.
Gu Yanche once joked, "Tingxia, what would I do without you?"
She only smiled, hiding her true feelings in the cicadas that sang on time every summer.
Until, in the seventh year, he planned to formally propose to his first love and asked her, his "best friend," to help him pick out a ring.
Shen Tingxia finally nodded and said, "All right. One last time."
After that, she vanished from his world completely.
Only then did Gu Yanche panic and realize:
The only city in his weather app was hers.
The note on his stomach medicine was in her handwriting.
In every photo from the important moments of his life, she was there in the corner, smiling quietly.
He searched for her like a madman, only to receive a cold reply beneath the aurora:
"Gu Yanche, some cicadas wait underground for seven years, not to break through the soil, but to be buried."
Later, the proudest young master in Jing City left everything behind and kept watch over the snowy wilderness of Northern Europe.
To everyone who passed by, he said:
"I'm waiting for a cicada. Or for the rest of my life, in which summer will never come again."
Shen Tingxia | "I got used to waiting, but forgot that cicadas don't live past summer."
Gu Yanche | "The cicadas were so loud, they drowned out my heartbeat."
"You were the echo that resounded through my youth, but I never heard you."
"The cicadas were deafening, drowning out all my sobs.
So you never heard them."
[Reading Notes]
◆ Unrequited love turns tragic | Seven-year itch | Bittersweet ending aesthetic / The regretful chase ◆
1. Intense unrequited love x an all-out pursuit to win her back. The male lead realizes too late, and the pain tears him apart.
2. The heroine leaves after her heart dies right from the beginning, with memories interwoven with the present.
3. Happy ending.
Theme: Love isn't noisy background music. It's an exchange that needs to be heard.
