In her sophomore year of high school, Lin Che, a taciturn transfer student, accidentally met Xu Youran who was standing under the cherry blossom tree and memorizing English words. At that moment, a stone was thrown into his seventeen-year life as peaceful as a lake, and the ripples could no longer calm down.
This secret secret love is like the noisiest cicada in summer - everyone can hear the deafening sound, but no one knows where the sound comes from. Lin Che spent three years folding the unspeakable emotions into countless tiny moments: deliberately adjacent seats in the library, an extra umbrella on a rainy day, encrypted sketches in a notebook, and excerpts from a collection of poems sent anonymously...
And Xu Youran, this seemingly cheerful and popular top student, also hides a secret about the "shadow boy" - the figure who always watches her quietly in the crowd, but never gets close.
The two parallel lines extended infinitely in the coordinate system of youth until, on the eve of the college entrance examination, a long unsigned letter and a sudden rainstorm finally washed away all the courage and cowardice, waiting and misunderstanding accumulated over the past three years. It turns out that some summers, you need to experience the chirping of cicadas for an entire youth before you can hear the echo at the end.
Intention: Some love is not for possession, but for people to learn to make their own voice in the long silent gaze. Just like a cicada spends its entire underground years in exchange for a summer that dares to sing; we spend our entire youth's secret love in exchange for a self that finally dares to be true.