Lin Mulai and Bian Yu should have been two lines that never crossed.
Everyone thought their stories would never intersect.
Until
She couldn’t solve a math problem.
He sat down beside her.
Rumors around school put her in the eye of the storm.
He stood by her, against everyone else.
She grew close to another boy.
For the first time, he lost control in public.
She decided to transfer schools.
He stood in the rain and asked her:
“Lin Mulai, have you never liked me at all?”
It turned out that the person who always seemed so composed
could feel jealous, insecure, and afraid of being rejected again by the person he liked.
And she finally understood
Some feelings aren’t love at first sight.
They’re what happens when you get used to someone’s presence,
used to having him behind you,
used to him always standing somewhere you can see when you turn around.
Many years later, Lin Mulai would still think of that summer.
The scorching sunlight, bleached white; the endless cicadas at the far end of the sports field; the shifting shadows of leaves scattered across the ground as the wind moved through the treetops.
It was as if summer had stayed there forever.
Back then, she didn’t yet know
that some people’s arrival divides your life into two distinct parts.
Before that, she was just one of countless ordinary girls.
She could be disappointed by an exam, fret over a math problem, and feel that eighteen was so far away it might never come.
She never would have imagined
that someone would come into her world that summer, riding the fiercest winds of the season.
And from then on, every year of her life would carry the taste of summer.
Theme: Life has only one most dazzling summer. Everything else is just the long recollection that follows.
A spirited young man X a girl who refuses to be defined
Theme: Life has only one most dazzling summer. Everything else is just the long recollection that follows.
