Summer Night Development

In the summer when he was eighteen years old, Lin Jianxia's world was made up of the dust from the repeat class, the aroma of wood shavings left after his father's death, and a silent flowing river that is said to connect the living and the dead. Until he met Xu Wanxing by the river - a pale, quiet girl who was declared by the doctor that she might not live to be twenty years old, and the plain white river lantern in her hand with stars and moons painted on it. I also met Ye Xun, who guards the "Time Photo Studio" and uses his camera to look for his sister who disappeared in the river five years ago year after year. In this summer filled with the chirping of cicadas, sultry heat and heavy secrets, three lonely souls are drawn together because of an ancient ritual of lighting lanterns. They try to use the faint candlelight to drift into the dark waters and ask questions that sink to the bottom of the river and will never be answered. But in the swaying halo, they accidentally uncovered the unfinished regrets of the previous generation, the secret that blood is thicker than water, and the unexpected crises in each other's lives. When Xu Wanxing collapsed without warning after the summer solstice night, when the red light in the operating room became a countdown to a long ordeal, when the cold medical bills and the decision to "sell the house" became a more realistic behemoth than the disease, Lin Jianxia and Ye Xun discovered that the lamp they put down illuminated not only the legendary other shore, but also the dark canyon full of pungent disinfectant water and heavy reality that they must cross together now.