In the midsummer when they were 16 years old, the wind of the high school entrance examination made them meet, but they only stayed with each other for one year.
They are the classmates who have the most tacit understanding in the eyes of others. They are the ones who walk side by side in the corridor between classes, quietly pass a bottle of warm water during evening study sessions, and subconsciously look at each other during sports meetings. Everyone thought they would come together naturally, but only they themselves knew the turbulent yet restrained heartbeat from beginning to end. They are all hidden in the silence that hesitates to speak.
He had seen the red tips of her ears when she lowered her head, and she remembered the panic in his eyes when he turned around. They were both sure of each other's feelings for countless moments, but they both lost to the cowardice and inferiority of youth at the age when they should be bravest. An unspoken love, a misunderstanding without time to explain, and a turning around to give in, caused the two people who should have been side by side to become completely separated in the crowd at the intersection of graduation.
Later, as time passed by, they each traveled to distant places, walked many roads, and met many people, but no other summer could make people's hearts feel hot and their eyes full of sourness as it did when they were seventeen. It turns out that the most painful thing is never not being able to love, but the two-way heartbeat.
Purpose: To write the tragic song of youth that goes in both directions but misses both ways, expresses the lifelong regrets caused by young cowardice, and interprets the most heartbreaking truth: we obviously care about each other, but in the end we separate, leaving the best of us forever in the summer when we can never go back.