Cicadas Cry Beneath the Stars Tonight

Lu Zhibai had lived abroad since childhood. It was only in his early twenties, when his older brother went overseas for medical treatment, that he was brought back to China. After returning, he was unfamiliar with both the language and the surroundings. His paternal uncle even hired someone to teach him Chinese. The first time he saw her, the girl was standing at the foot of the stairs. Sunlight spilled over her milky-white turtleneck and long skirt as she looked up and smiled at him. His father pointed to her and introduced them. "This is your uncle's most prized student, Gu Zhijing." He had simply stood halfway up the stairs and glanced at her coolly. The young master of the Lu family had grown up abroad and knew almost no Chinese. Gu Zhijing gently and patiently taught him everything from pinyin to writing, and without realizing it, began treating him like a child. She had no idea when the little boy in her heart had stopped tracing famous calligraphy models to practice his handwriting, and started tracing her own strokes, one by one. Or when he had stopped listening to her recordings to practice speaking, and started falling asleep to recordings of her reading poetry. But to be fair, Lu Zhibai also kept a few secrets from Gu Zhijing. For example, she would occasionally stare blankly at the Lu family mansion for no apparent reason. And the press pass she accidentally dropped. At his twenty-second birthday party, dressed in a suit, Lu Zhibai leaned in to kiss Gu Zhijing softly in a dark corner behind the floor-to-ceiling curtains, where no one could see them. His breath was hot, and his desire was unmistakable. Then he found a photo in Gu Zhijing's wallet of his older brother, who had gone missing a year earlier. Only then did he remember that before his disappearance, his brother, Lu Yuanting, had had a girlfriend he loved deeply. Lu Yuanting had called her "A Jing." * The heroine is the protagonist. This is the story of her experiences and growth. * Includes mystery and crime-solving elements. * Archived on 2021.2.14. Theme: We can only give everything we have, in the hope of saving things at the last possible moment.