The Sound of Cicadas Facing the Sun

Pei Yang is the most silent person in the class. He has a cold and reserved temperament, keeps to himself all year round, doesn't like to talk, and has almost no friends. He was used to going to class alone, after school alone, and sitting alone in the corner of the classroom, with a deserted and solitary appearance, which made him always stay away from the crowd. He is used to being ignored, and has accepted his bleak and ordinary life, which is not liked by anyone. Until midsummer came, his eyes began to follow the most dazzling boy in the class uncontrollably. His name is Xia Yuyou, who is completely different from him. He has a cheerful and lively personality, always positive, and his eyes are full of pure tenderness and enthusiasm. He is kind, sincere, brave and enthusiastic, like the brightest sunshine in midsummer, illuminating the boring campus life. He is very popular, always surrounded by friends, smiles openly, lively and cute, and is the little sunshine in everyone's eyes. Pei Yang was quietly moved. This secret love is hidden in every corner of the eye, sour and secret. He has extremely low self-esteem. When he looks at the dazzling and bright person and compares it with his lonely, unpopular self, he feels cowardly and sensitive in his heart. He felt that he was bleak and boring, not worthy of such a passionate and beautiful young man, so he could only hide his turbulent feelings in his heart, not daring to reveal them at all. In the hot midsummer evening wind, no one knew that the lonely and indifferent young man was hiding a cautious, humble and passionate heartbeat. The story begins on a sultry evening. After the evening self-study get out of class, the crowd was noisy. Pei Yang walked into the convenience store on the street alone. The evening breeze carried the unique heat of midsummer and the chirping of cicadas. Being cold and lonely, he accidentally ran into the boy he had secretly liked for a long time in a small convenience store. Under a warm yellow light, two completely different teenagers met unexpectedly, gently opening the prelude to this sour and tender secret love hidden in the midsummer. Concept: Novel Concept This article is set on a campus in midsummer, using the sour secret love of the lonely boy Pei Yang to explore self-acceptance and two-way redemption in youth. Pei Yang suffers from low self-esteem due to his introverted personality and lack of sociability. He regards the dazzling young man as an unreachable light and buries his heartbeat deep in his heart, reflecting the common mood of sensitivity, cowardice and self-denial in adolescence. An accidental encounter at a convenience store breaks the two people's parallel worlds. The story not only depicts the innocent emotions of teenagers, but the core lies in: being introverted and lonely is never a flaw. Ordinary people also deserve to be loved. Only by bravely facing one's own heart can one overcome the barriers of inferiority and embrace one's own warmth and light. At the same time, through the collision of two teenagers, one cold and one hot, it shows the mutual healing under the contrast of personalities. The lonely one slowly opens his heart, and the enthusiastic one understands the tenderness of silence, interpreting the most touching growth in youth: the prerequisite for loving others is to learn to accept the imperfect self.