The cicada waited underground for seventeen years.
Lin Zhichan also wanted to leave. Leave this county, leave his mother, leave everything that traps him.
In the summer of 2010, he pulled a deaf-mute boy in an alley who was being bullied.
That man's name is Chen Shu. He remembered Lin Zhichan.
Chen Shu can't speak, but he can draw. He painted trees, cicadas, and the part of himself that Lin Zhichan didn't remember. He kept every unspeakable moment in his painting book.
Later they got closer and were separated again. On the day when Chen Shu transferred to another school, he waited at the station for the last bus. When Lin Zhichan came back from training, he was already gone.
Many years later, Lin Zhichan heard Chen Shu's name on the radio at the airport and got the painting book he left behind. He changed his ticket and waited all afternoon. Chen Shu did not come.
He didn't know that Chen Shu couldn't hear the radio.
The title page of the picture book reads: I will wait for you until the 31st.
Trees are like this, how can people be embarrassed?
Concept: Some people cannot speak, but they remember another person throughout their lives.