Rain Falls on Summer Fields

That heavy rain changed the trajectories of the two parallel worlds. When top student Lin Xia ran into the basketball gym soaked to the skin, she would not have thought that the unruly boy shooting alone in the empty stadium would become a secret throughout her youth. The beads of sweat that Zhou Ye shook off when she turned around, and the raindrops dripping from her hair, intertwined into the first node of fate that summer. In the classroom of a key high school, they are the two people in the class who are least likely to have any intersection - she is the class president who is the top student on the honor roll, and he is the sports student who is forced to stand in the corridor. Until one day, the notebook that Zhou Ye deliberately changed revealed the page of Lin Xia's diary where she recorded their first encounter; and Lin Xia found a sketch of her profile in Zhou Ye's homework book. Three years passed in the sourness of lemon candy: the trembling of his fingertips when he took the towel from her at the sports meeting, the warmth of the scarf shared until late at night during the New Year's Day party rehearsal, and the candy that always appeared in the pencil case after every quarrel. When rumors, misunderstandings and family pressure hit them like a tide, they kept approaching and pushing away, lingering at the crossroads of graduation season. "If I had been braver..." Lin Xia wrote in her last letter to Zhou Ye. This letter, together with the ticket to a different city, was left forever on the mottled desk of Class 7 of Senior High School. The most touching thing about youth is never the happy ending, but the echo of the basketball falling to the ground on that rainy day, and the wet writing on the diary.