Male protagonist: Shen Zhiyan
Aloof and taciturn, academically dominant
Sensitive and reserved, hiding worries
Heroine: Lin Wanxing
Gentle and bright, loves to laugh
Good at painting, persistent and soft-hearted
Background: Chengjiang Middle School, a key high school on the southern coast, is a senior graduating class. The sultry summer is full of test papers, the chirping of cicadas, the lights of evening self-study, and the evening breeze on the beach.
Atmosphere: Youthful and bright but fragile, young people's worries are hidden in the tip of the pen and behind the eyes, real pressure (college entrance examination, family, future) crushes youth love, no cheating, no bullying, pure reality leads to regret.
Foreground: The summer wind in the senior year of high school blew through the camphor trees in Chengjiang Middle School, and also disturbed the hearts of Lin Wanxing and Shen Zhiyan. Lin Wanxing is the art student who always smiles in the classroom, and Shen Zhiyan is the taciturn first-year student sitting diagonally in front of her. She secretly traced his profile with a paintbrush, and he silently occupied a seat for her in the late-night study room.
There was no grand confession, only a tacit companionship and a love hidden behind their eyes that they dared not say out loud. They thought that after passing the college entrance examination, they could rush to the same future, but the reality gap had long opened between them. The expectations of the family, the distance between the city, and his unspeakable difficulties, she finally chose to give in.
The summer wind was still blowing, the cicadas were still chirping, and the sunset at the seaside they had seen together was still orange, but the love of the seventeen-year-old finally stopped at the fixed frame of the graduation photo, never to be followed.
There is no sadomasochism in the whole process, only the most heartbreaking real regrets, pure BE aesthetics
"Evening Star, you should go to the brighter place and don't look back."
Time of writing: 2026.3.19
Intention: Pure reality towards Be