Parting Ways in Midsummer

They are strangers separated by a flight of stairs on the vocational high school campus, passers-by looking at each other from a distance in the crowd. An accidental encounter in the hot dusk made ripples quietly arise in the silent heart. In the days and nights to come, it will be the side glances passing by each other in the corridor, the resonance of the evening breeze during self-study in the evening, the mineral water handed to me at the sports meeting, and countless pauses where I hesitate to speak. Lin Zhiwang hid all his two years of love in the notebook he carried with him, and every word contained his secret thoughts. She is timid and reserved, always thinking that the future is long, and always waiting for the right time to confess her feelings. Jiang Jingchu was gentle, well-proportioned, and habitually gentle and considerate, which made her mistakenly think it was a preference, and also made her fall deeper and deeper into this silent secret love. The young man's affection is pure and weak, unable to withstand the temptation of silence and unable to avoid the bifurcation of reality. The road ahead for further studies is completely different. The interactions between them are becoming increasingly rare. There are no quarrels or misunderstandings, they just naturally drift apart. Summer has come to an end and graduation has arrived as scheduled. The hurried scene at the bus stop was the last time they looked at each other in their youth. Thousands of words turned into just a plain greeting, no confession, no retention, no promise to see you again in the future. The wind swept away the heat of midsummer and dispersed the heartbeat of youth. The last page of the notebook full of thoughts was always left blank. Those loves that had been hidden throughout youth could not be expressed after all. In the north and south of life, mountains and rivers never meet. Some gentle encounters were originally for a silent regret. They met lightly and left a deep blank. From then on, year after year, there was no intersection.