When he was sixteen years old, Lin Tingwan met Gu Wangchuan in the library.
He handed over a book and said, "Read it first."
She spent her whole youth looking up to this boy - calculating the time just to catch a glimpse of him during her morning run, keeping every note he wrote, and watching a silent meteor shower with him in the early morning hours at the observatory.
But she never said those words because she felt unworthy.
What he didn't know was that she worked so hard to get into University B, not just for the library.
She also didn't know that he gave up the escort, broke with his father, and drew the observatory drawing with her as the center - all just to get closer to her.
A long-planned rush, two deep feelings unknown to each other.
From under the ginkgo trees in southern Qinghai to the rooftops of Beijing's first snowy buildings, from late nights in Munich, Germany to the ticket stubs across mountains and seas - they spent eight years missing each other, and then spent the rest of their lives returning to the place where it all began.
There are some stars that you don't have to reach out to pick, they will fall back into your arms by themselves.
But those summers swallowed by silence will never come back.
Purpose: "Your End of Summer" takes a ten-year secret love run as its core and explores how "silence" has become the most familiar yet heaviest language for a generation in intimate relationships. The novel explores how inferiority and admiration, the imprint of the original family, class differences, etc., Turn love into a code that needs to be translated through the fate of the male and female protagonists who go in both directions but are often misaligned. In the end, the story points not to "missing out", but to - even if the silence is torn apart, people still have the courage to turn around and fall back in the direction of each other. This is a story about pain, growth and reconciliation: some summers never come back, but we can relearn how to say love on snowy days.