This is a regretful story about youth and secret love.
The summer of Fu Xia's seventeenth year was filled with the chirping of cicadas outside the classroom window, the chalk dust on the desk, and Lin Shihe's silhouette. The thoughts he hid on the back of the draft paper were the sneak peeks he made while pretending to pass by her seat every time in class, the umbrella he didn't dare to hand out on rainy days, and the deliberate standing half a meter behind her in the graduation photo.
Lin Shihe was the secret that Fu Xia had not dared to tell during his entire youth. It was also the clearest spot in midsummer when he looked back many years later.
There is no passionate confession in the story, no two-way consummation, only the heartbeat of young people hidden in the details, and the silent farewell in the graduation season. Those unspoken likes and unfulfilled promises finally stayed in that summer called "Yu Xia" and became a poem that he never opened in his life.
Purpose: Those unspoken heartbeats and regrets in youth are also precious footnotes in growth.