Fourteen-year-old Cui Gongxi loves summer.
Chilled watermelon, the showerhead, and lively Beginning of Summer feasts. She can take Pei Zhiyi into the bamboo grove and use an old mosquito net to catch a whole netful of fireflies.
Fourteen-year-old Cui Gongxi loves autumn.
Sour tangerines, sweet persimmons, and golden osmanthus after the rain. Pei Zhiyi, who grew up in the city, has surely never seen a spiky chestnut burr. He doesn't know how much patience it takes to peel one open.
Fourteen-year-old Cui Gongxi loves winter.
Roasted sweet potatoes, wintersweet blossoms, and the warm shoes her grandmother makes. When the fireworks rise into the night sky, she'll be the first to wish Pei Zhiyi a happy new year.
Fourteen-year-old Cui Gongxi hates spring.
Because spring is too short.
So short that she'd only just met Pei Zhiyi, and hadn't had time to show him all four seasons of Sanshui before he left.
Fifteen-year-old Pei Zhiyi loves spring.
Running with Cui Gongxi through golden fields of rapeseed flowers, taking shelter from a sudden spring shower beneath the eaves, then buying two cups of lemon milk tea. When the cherry blossoms fall, they celebrate her staying at the top of the honors list for another month.
If not for this spring, he would never have known that someone could enter his life and turn exile into a new beginning.
2026.3.3
Theme: You only get one life, so don't let your youth go to waste.
