During the sweltering summer of her sixteenth year, Cai Jingyuan quietly entrusted an unknown crush to the dazzling Han Mingsheng.
Her innocent feelings took root, but that secret crush ultimately ended over something she couldn't let go of. She had been angry, resentful, and hateful. Then she turned away, cut off all contact with him, and never reached out first again. She claimed she still held it against him, but deep down, she had never truly let go of that youthful first love. As the years passed, she left school and entered the working world, running a little pet shop and spending her days with gentle cats and dogs, trying to soothe the regret of her youth. She thought those young feelings would fade with the spring breeze and be buried in the past. She never imagined that years later, when they met again, she would realize she had never truly let go. The resentment of the past and the feelings she had buried quietly surged through her once more at their reunion. Old memories came rushing back, and summer began again.
Theme: Affection never fades easily. What we cannot let go of in our hearts will eventually come to terms with the past when we meet again.
