Ten years ago, in the midsummer of a small southern town, Wen Zhixia, Shen Juan, Su Wan, Xu Zhi, and Lin Yu were the five best people. They walked side by side along Wutong Street and agreed to go see the sea together after the college entrance examination. They thought that youth would always be passionate and the future would be long.
However, a provocation that no one knew about happened quietly.
Fake chat screenshots, anonymous slanderous private messages, deliberate hints and misunderstandings, like small cracks, slowly spread among the five people. Pride and paranoia, sensitivity and self-blame, silence and cowardice made them gradually alienate and suspicious of each other, and finally scattered in all directions after that midsummer.
For ten years, the five people were each trapped in the end of their lives. Wen Zhixia stayed in the small town, Shen Juan traveled alone in a foreign land, Su Wan's sincerity was frozen, Xu Zhi exhausted his tenderness, and Lin Yu imprisoned himself. They all blamed themselves for the separation and spent a long time punishing themselves, but they never doubted that the tragedy was never caused by the vagaries of youth, but someone deliberately caused it.
Ten years later, a class reunion reunited the five people. Old scars were reopened, doubts gradually emerged, and the truth hidden under the gentle skin finally came to light one summer night.
However, the truth came too late.
Misunderstandings can be clarified and lies exposed, but the scars of ten years have already been engraved in the bones and blood. They finally knew that they were not wrong, but they could never go back to the age of seventeen, the cabin full of daisies, or the promise the five of them made to go to the beach side by side.
The summer wind still blows through Wutong Street every year, but the five people who visited that midsummer never returned.
Concept: Separation in youth is never just a simple separation of love and hate. The weaknesses of the human heart, youthful pride and inability to speak well can easily be exploited maliciously, fostering long-lasting misunderstandings and internal friction. Even if the truth of some regrets is revealed, time cannot be turned back; scars can scab, but broken youth cannot be restored. The purpose of the story is to tell readers that they do not have to bear the burden of sins that do not belong to them alone, but they must learn to reconcile with past regrets and accept those unsatisfactory endings in life.
