The beginning of the story is the chirping of cicadas, the playground, and the sunset that I missed when I peeked at him;
The story ends with the heavy rain in midsummer, the long light in the ICU, and Gu Qinghang's breathing forever fixed on July 22nd.
I spent my entire youth loving him, and I also spent my entire youth accepting the fact that he could not get out of that midsummer.
In the midsummer afternoon, with the chirping of cicadas, I drew the first ray of light at the age of seventeen on the window sill of Rocket Class.
The story unfolds from Wen Jinning's perspective. We are an inseparable foursome - I am the girl who is always struggling in the sea of problems and the link that connects the foursome. Gu Qinghang is my most reliable shore and the only distance I want to go to; Qu Changyue is passionate and bold, hiding his secret love in every broken thought of "Shen Yanqi"; and Shen Yanqi will always be the little sun with its own light, gathering everyone's joy.
At that time, we thought our youth would last forever, and that the foursome would last forever like overlapping shadows. The addition of Su Chengxuan seemed to just fill a gap in the stadium, making the excitement even more noisy. However, no one expected that this bustling excitement was actually preparing for a grand finale.
Shen Yanqi finally fell in love with someone else, and the enthusiasm originally given to the foursome was quietly transferred to another girl. Qu Changyue's unrequited love ended without a cure, and our foursome unknowingly reorganized and separated, leaving only Gu Qinghang and I, tugging at the bond called "love" in the separation and reunification.
We studied questions side by side under the lights of evening self-study, and encouraged each other in the smoke of the college entrance examination, thinking that after surviving the summer, we would reach eternity. But the foreshadowing of fate has already hidden the answer in the folds of youth - the bell ringing at the end of the college entrance examination is not the clarion call for reunion, but the death knell of farewell.
Gu Qinghang, the young man who accompanied me through countless mornings and evenings and helped me solve all my problems, underwent a minor surgery after graduation in order to move towards a better future. Unexpectedly...
And I became the only relic he left to me.
The sycamore leaves outside the window were falling and growing again. I was holding the draft paper with his handwriting in my hand. The pen in my hand was full of messy auxiliary lines on the paper, but I couldn't figure out the answer to "live on".
Concept: Youth is painful and joyful growth, love is restraint and protection, and it is endless life in ordinary days.