On a lazy summer day, leafy shadows fall beneath the trees and cicadas sing in chorus. It's the perfect season to confess your feelings.
Jiang Chiye took Xia Zhen to see a movie about a youthful unrequited love. The leads had grown up together in the same alley. The boy had loved the girl for years and spent more than a decade being her friend. But she was too slow to recognize her own feelings, and his tender, unnoticed crush came to nothing. They went their separate ways, and the movie ended with a big, unmistakable bad ending.
As they left the theater, Xia Zhen suddenly threw her arms around Jiang Chiye and began to cry. Through her tears, she choked out, "Jiang Chiye, we have to stay together forever. We can't ever part."
In the dusk, the boy hugged the tear-streaked girl back, secretly delighted. This dummy had finally caught on.
But before he could agree, the person in his arms looked up at him with tearful eyes, her expression sincere and innocent.
"See? Childhood friends can't become a couple. Jiang Chiye, let's promise each other that if either of us falls for the other, that person is a puppy who wants to end our friendship."
The arm around the girl suddenly had nowhere to go. Jiang Chiye had probably never felt so frustrated in his life as he did with this girl.
He was already that puppy, but he had no intention of ending their friendship.
"Woof!"
"Summer will quietly slip away, but Jiang Chiye, who loves Xia Zhen, will never leave."
A brash, confident boy trying to turn their friendship into a relationship x an optimistic, sunny girl who's slow to recognize her feelings
[Reading Guide]
A lighthearted school romance about childhood friends, with a touch of an ensemble cast.
The heroine is clueless about romance, and a bit of a slow starter.
Let's write another summer~
Theme: The cicadas keep singing, while I secretly hope summer will last
