Summer Is Dazzling with You

Ji Yuan's life has been shrouded in darkness since birth. His alcoholic father beat and kicked him all year round, and his cowardly and compromising mother would always complain and agree, never protecting him in the slightest. He grew up in fear and silence, used to huddled in corners, used to suffering all kinds of harm, until the summer when he was eighteen years old, he was forced to transfer schools and entered Jiangcheng No. 3 Middle School. It was also in the midsummer when the cicadas were chirping that he met Jiang Yao. Jiang Yao is a naturally dazzling young man who comes from a wealthy family and is cared for by his parents. He has excellent grades and is always the most eye-catching presence on the basketball court. He is warm, magnanimous and fearless, like a ray of sunshine without reservation, shining directly into Ji Yuan's lifeless world. Jiang Yao would give him a shady seat, ride his bike home every day, give him lectures late at night, and stand up in front of him when he was being beaten and scolded by his father. The boy's clumsy yet sincere tenderness warmed Ji Yu'an's cold heart a little bit, making him feel for the first time that he was worthy of being treated well, and that summer could be so dazzling. They hid their feelings between the desks, made promises about their future in the evening breeze, and agreed to go to the same city to take the exam and escape from all the unhappiness together. But this cautious love could not escape the heavy blow of reality. The diary was discovered, the family broke up, rumors spread, secular prejudice, parents' persecution, and the shackles of their original family forced the two teenagers to have no way out. In order not to drag Jiang Yao down, Ji Yuan could only cut off all his thoughts with his own hands and say the cruelest farewell in the wind and snow. Seven years apart. When we met again, the midsummer was still the same, and the cicadas were still chirping, but the young people back then had already gone their separate ways. Jiang Yao, wearing a suit and leather shoes, is about to get married and become a perfection in the eyes of others; Ji Yuan is still alone, with scars all over his body, guarding a past that no one knows. They once had the most dazzling summer, but in the end they were defeated by time, the world and involuntarily. The summer with you is very bright, but after you left, my summer has never been brighter again. The rest of my life will be long, stay safe and never see each other again. Purpose: This article tells the story of young men Nian Yu'an and Jiang Yao who met and fell in love in midsummer, but were eventually forced to separate under secular pressure and helpless reality. It explores the taboos and struggles in same-sex love, as well as the dazzling but fragile heartbeats of youth, and expresses reflection on secular prejudice and regret for pure emotions.