"He is a star that strayed into the world. She is a gardenia trapped in the rainy season. My seventeen-year-old love is the candy and the Milky Way that he secretly stuffed into my palm the second the power went out during self-study class."
"He is the most arrogant cicada chirping in the summer wind, she is the gardenia hiding in the shade of the tree, and the secret of being seventeen is the thumping that cannot be hidden in the cracks of the desk."
Lin Zhixia circled the name "Jiang Shubai" on the class list, and the student number ending in 0713 (her birthday) was stained with red pen into a heart.
When Jiang Shubai climbed over the wall, he tore off the gardenia pinned to her schoolbag, put it in the textbook and wrote: "Little Bai Gardenia, I stole the flower. I will give it back to you for the whole summer next time."
A heavy rainstorm hit the playground. She stumbled and fell while holding her homework book. He held an umbrella with one hand and knelt on one knee: "Lin Zhixia, do you want to sign my school uniform? It's your fault if you get wet."
She brushed her fingertips against his sleeves: "Jiang Shubai, your name is noisier than the rainstorm."
"Amidst the chirping of cicadas, he smiled with water drops on his eyelashes: 'Xiao Bai Zhi, I hear your heartbeat is louder than thunder.'"
"The confession in midsummer is like the bubbles bursting from the soda bottle. We catch it in a hurry, but it sweetens the whole youth."
Intention: "Love is the most magnanimous rhetoric in midsummer. It makes the coward dare to stand in the heavy rain, and makes the proud willing to sing like a cicada."
