The first summer when Xu Jiao met Song Shexing, they were in the first year of junior high school.
Unlike Xu Jiao, Song Shexing, her junior partner, not only had good grades and was the teacher's favorite, but was also surprisingly popular.
A few minutes after class, a circle of friends gathered around his desk.
Xu Jiao noticed more than once that when passing by the basketball court, there would always be more than one hand greeting Song Shexing from a distance.
The boy just smiled and raised his chin lazily.
Xu Jiao followed his shadow step by step.
On the third summer, she finally let her name be replaced by his name on the honor list.
In the fourth summer, they were admitted to the same key class in No. 1 Middle School together.
At the end of the evening of the fifth summer, she mustered up the courage to stop him as he was about to leave.
Song Shexing lazily raised his eyelids and his tone was astonishing:
"Why, the honor list is not close enough, so you still have to catch up to me?"
But when she stammered out the invitation to "try it," the expected rejection didn't come.
He only paused for a moment, his ears turned slightly red and he turned away:
"... As you wish."
——This seemingly difficult young master seems to be much easier to chase than she imagined.
In the sixth summer of my senior year, cicadas were chirping along the tree-lined avenues.
They were walking hand in hand, and he looked at the treetops and whispered:
"Did you know, Xu Jiao, that a cicada spends most of its life underground. It may take two, three, six, or even more years... To get one summer of singing."
*[I have been waiting for you, this timid cicada, to actually climb into the top of my tree for many years.
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[Campus/Men have a crush on women]
[Avoidant female protagonist who is hot on the outside but cold on the inside & male protagonist who is a guiding type and a poisonous young man]
Purpose: cherish the present moment