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The moment the handover bell tore through the air, Yang Mimi rushed out of the examination room. Ignoring the loose shoelaces, she grabbed her schoolbag and chased Liu Yu for three blocks on Wutong Road. The boy's thin school uniform was blown up by the wind, revealing half of his pale waistline. She called out to him breathlessly, but only got a "take care" in return. The crystal hourglass gave off a cool feeling in the palm of his hand. When Liu Yu turned around, the street lights happened to light up, causing Yang Mimi to be at a loss for words. She didn't see his red eyes clearly, nor did she hear the lump in his throat. The fine sand in the glass chamber fell rustlingly, just like the words "Don't leave" she didn't say. Reunited ten years later under the crystal lantern in a private club, Yang Mimi was being held by her new boyfriend while cutting a cake. The diamond ring reflects the cold light on the cream. Suddenly someone knocked down the champagne tower, and with a crisp crackling sound, she looked into a pair of deep eyes soaked in the weather of time. Liu Yu was wearing a handmade suit, but he had a faded red string on his wrist - she pulled it from the wishing tree and gave it to him in his senior year of high school. The whiskey in front of him rippled, reflecting the brand new wedding ring on her ring finger, and she could clearly see the fine sand in the hourglass flowing back crazily in the depths of her memory.

When the chirping of cicadas tore apart the July cicada wings, Lin Jie was lying on an old wicker chair reading "Andersen's Fairy Tales". Grandma poked her head out of the kitchen while kneading dough, her reading glasses sliding down to the tip of her nose:\