Summer Without You

[Main story complete / Extra chapters being posted / Next book: Secretly in Love]

[Unrequited love comes true / Each other’s first love]

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In the eighth year of loving Zhou Rangci, Chen Qingxia’s secret feelings were finally returned.

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At a gathering with friends, they talked about the bravest thing they’d done for someone they liked in high school.

When it was Chen Qingxia’s turn, she only spoke of the thing she hadn’t been brave enough to do: “Back then, the person I liked was too dazzling. I didn’t dare confess, so I mailed him a few love letters he never received.”

“In the eighth year of liking him, I flew thousands of miles to his school, but still didn’t dare contact him. I never got to see him.”

Her friends tried to find out who he was, but got nowhere and eventually gave up.

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Later, the old family home was renovated and rebuilt, and Zhou Rangci returned to the residential compound with his childhood friend.

Several old love letters from the same person, sent many years ago, fell out of the battered mailbox.

“I’ve loved you for another whole summer. Every time I think of you, it feels like I’m back in the summer I was sixteen.”

“Zhou Rangci, in the summer of the eighth year, I wish you a life of peace and good fortune.”

Only then did Zhou Rangci learn that, during all the years he’d known nothing about it, the person he loved now had loved him through so many summers.

"In all the summers without you, I loved you on my own for so many years."

"Chen Qingxia had always thought that her connection with Zhou Rangci would end with the summer they graduated from high school.

Back then, Zhou Rangci was the golden boy, surrounded by adoring eyes. He never noticed Chen Qingxia looking at him with a secret crush.

Later, Chen Qingxia stood before the boy she’d loved at sixteen, and found herself back in that summer.

All those bittersweet, unspoken feelings ended in a summer with Zhou Rangci."

* Unrequited love comes true / Each other’s first love

* From school days to adulthood / Slow burn / Reunited after a long separation

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