A Year Away from Summer

The entire article is narrated from the first-person perspective of guitarist Lu Jinyi, and the story is adapted from the author's own youth experience. At a barbecue stall on a summer night in Ningzhou, seventeen-year-old art candidate Lu Jinyi met the gentle and sensitive Gu Yuxuan. An exchange diary and a hand-engraved guitar pick were full of the young man's uncontrollable heartbeat. The estrangement caused by the art exam in the same city, a misunderstood photo shattered the love, and the pull across a distance of 600 kilometers exhausted all the tenderness. When the news of their breakup came at two o'clock in the morning, their summer came to a complete end. Ten years passed by in a hurry, and Lu Jinyi became a touring guitarist, with the rusty pick that he had not given away hanging around his neck. After returning to the barbecue stall in the old alley and hearing about her peaceful and ordinary life, he realized that his inferiority complex, slowness and pride caused him to lose the person he cherished most in his life, leaving him with only a whole summer of regret that he could not look back on.