Waiting for a Spring That Will Never Come

In that senior year of high school, where time was measured in seconds, the world of transfer student Lin Chaochao consisted of test papers, countdowns, and the faint smell of mint on his deskmate Jiang Yu. Jiang Yu is the first in grade. He is cold and taciturn. He wears a hearing aid in his left ear that cannot be noticed unless you look closely. His life plan seemed to contain only the word "Tsinghua University", as rigorous as an unsolvable physics problem. Until that autumn afternoon, Lin Chaochao accidentally came across the flyleaf of his worn dark blue notebook, which was filled with her name. From the explanation of a question to a shared cup of osmanthus tea, two lonely souls cautiously approached each other under the pressure of the college entrance examination. Xue Ye's confession was silent but deafening. He specified his dream from "Tsinghua University Physics Department" to - "I want to research a device that can hear the world clearly, and also hear her heartbeat." However, an operation on which all hopes were placed became the cruelest turning point in youth. Before the catkins from Beijing have drifted to the south, the breath of life in Jiangsu has stopped abruptly. The bell rang for the end of the college entrance examination, and everyone was cheering for relief. Only Lin Chaochao stood in the empty classroom holding the Tsinghua University admission notice. Wutong leaves once again paved the way back, but the boy who promised to walk with her in the Tsinghua Garden remained in the spring of that year forever.