Lu Zhiyou had always been aloof, giving off an icy, keep-your-distance aura since childhood. He realized his feelings at a fairly young age, though: when he was twenty.
He went to pick up his roommate's girlfriend for him. From a distance, he saw a girl walking over with a suitcase.
She was like a flower, with thick, dark hair and a bright yellow headband tied around her head. She approached with a lively, colorful air. When her clear, bright eyes looked at him, the heart that had lain dormant for twenty years suddenly slipped out of his control.
It came without warning and could not be resisted, so sudden and intense that he froze for a moment, confused.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, watching the girl walk straight toward him. The cicadas in the trees beside him mingled with the restless pounding in his chest, their noise almost deafening, as if fate were sending him a sign.
Then the girl reached him and spoke.
"Are you Senior Lu?"
"Hi! I'm Cheng Youran's girlfriend. He said his roommate is the tallest and most handsome person you can see at a glance."
"Haha, I got the right person, didn't I?"
Up close, her eyes were even brighter. When she smiled, a tiny red mole was clearly visible at the corner of her mouth. She was cute and beautiful, radiant and harmless.
But his heart felt as if it had slammed into the point of a blade.
Before he could properly savor this sudden rush of feelings, he had already tasted fate's cruel joke.
There are no cicadas in winter. Those were the echoes of summer.
Lu Zhiyou's one and only moment of falling in love began in summer and fell into a long sleep in winter.
Theme: Love has its proper order, and it also has its rules of decency.
