"Seventeen Days of Cicadas"
Be Aesthetics
"Jiang Yingwan, do you know that... A cicada can only live seventeen days?"
When she was seventeen, Ruan Jiayin transferred to Chengnan High School and met Jiang Yingwan, who was sitting in the back row and never woke up. He always liked to draw cicadas on his desk, saying that it was the freest sound he had ever heard in his short life.
"When the college entrance examination is over, I will take you to see real cicadas." He smiled and pushed the sketchbook in front of her. On it was a drawing of a cicada fluttering about to fly, with her name written next to it.
What Ruan Jiayin didn't know was that there was a stack of hospital report sheets hidden in Jiang Yingwan's drawer. The words "Progressive Muscular Dystrophy" on them were as dazzling as a verdict of fate. He counted the days, but when she asked, he smiled and said it was just a minor cold.
During the last mock test before the college entrance examination, Jiang Yingwan fainted in the examination room. Ruan Jiayin chased the ambulance like crazy, but she only heard him say: "Don't cry... I lied to you, cicadas can actually live for a long time... A long time..."
That summer, Ruan Jiayin went to the forest they had agreed on alone. The cicadas chirped deafeningly. Holding a box of sketch pens that had not been given away, she found the last cicada he drew on the tree trunk - its wings were incomplete, but it pointed stubbornly at the sky.
"Jiang Yingwan, you are the liar... Cicada obviously... Can only live seventeen days..."
"You are the longest summer in my short life."
Campus BE aesthetics/suffering sick and weak male protagonist × gentle and tough female protagonist
Every cicada is saying I love you for me, deafening, until death
short story
This copy was written on 2025.05.07 And has been screenshotted
Intention: Every cicada is saying I love you for me, deafening, until death.