When the school rules become a devouring curse, Shen Shuiqiong and Gu Yunqi go back to back in one campus conspiracy after another - they are not each other's salvation, but they must be the only hand that the other can hold.
Purpose: When the "rules of survival" alienate into shackles that swallow human nature, explore how people can maintain themselves in extreme environments and avoid becoming the puppets of the rules - those assimilated "disappeared people" are the price of giving up the definition of "human".
The mutual anchoring between Shen Shuiqiong and Gu Yunqi is essentially the confirmation of "existence": in the dilemma where memory has been tampered with and identity has been blurred, "you remember me" is a weapon against nothingness, proving that "we are not footnotes to the rules, but living people."
"Summer without Graduation" is a metaphor for stagnation and sacrifice in growing up - the process of walking out of campus is also a process of being forced to face the cruelty of the world. What they ultimately take away are not only survival skills, but also a deep understanding of "guarding" and "price".
The old files under the campus foundation and the hidden past behind the rules point to "history has never really passed": every era has scars that have been covered up, and the current struggle may be the redemption and response to the past.