Far-Off Midsummer

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Childhood Friends | Reunited After a Breakup

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To Chen Jie, Liang Tiao was her neighbor and a friend she had grown up with. Theirs was the purest friendship in the world.

A friend teased her, “Childhood friends so often end up as a couple!”

Chen Jie waved the idea away with a laugh, swearing she would never fall for a stuffy old pedant who was always bossing her around.

When Liang Tiao heard this, he nodded calmly. He glanced at her, still refusing to study properly and making mischief under the cover of the desk, then reminded her, “Could you at least be a good student and let go of my hand first?”

*

When Liang Tiao came up in conversation, Chen Jie's mother sighed, “You've both grown up. It's only natural that you don't keep in touch as much.”

Chen Jie nodded and said nothing.

The truth was, after they broke up, they couldn't even be friends.

*The one-line summary is inspired by Karen Mok's song Winter Solstice:

“If you can hold each other, then do. Next time, we'll spend the winter as friends.”

Theme: Finding one's way to expand into new territory