"Rusty Summer"
——"That summer, our love was rusty, but your name was still hot in my palms."
Mingde Middle School's thoughtfulness is the perfect academic in everyone's eyes - top grades, calm and self-disciplined, and a straight road to admission has been paved for the future. But the transfer student Shen Zhao is the type of person he hates the most: undisciplined, willful, and obviously has amazing talents, but he doesn't care about the rules.
The two were forced to sit at the same table. From hating each other to tit-for-tat, they discovered each other's secrets in repeated confrontations:
- The last page of his thoughtful notebook is filled with rocket sketches, which is his space dream that he dare not declare;
- There is a faded bear pendant hanging on Shen Zhao's schoolbag, which is the last gift left to him by his grandma.
When the summer rainstorm washes away the heat of the city, their relationship is quietly deteriorating. Zhou Zhou began to get used to the mints that Shen Zhao threw casually, while Shen Zhao remembered that Zhou Zhou needed to add three cubes of ice to his coffee. But before the love of adolescence can be expressed, reality has already corroded this encounter——
Six years later, Zhou Zhou, who had become an aerospace engineer, met Shen Zhao again at an academic conference. The other party smiled and handed over a cup of coffee, with the torn up fragments of the registration form taped to the bottom of the cup.
"Summer will rust and dreams will fade, but the unspoken confessions in youth will eventually be revealed in time."
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Concept: "The most ardent youth is often etched with rust for eternity."
