That Year the Cicadas Sounded Just Right

When he was sixteen, a mindless seat adjustment made Su Nian and Shen Yu, the one who couldn't sit still the most in the class, sit at the same table. He is noisy, she is quiet; he is the one who gives the teacher a headache, and she is the one who makes the teacher feel at ease. Putting two people together at a table like this should have been a disaster. But fate is so unreasonable. As the days passed, the original vitality was worn away by the daily interactions; when I came back to my senses, it seemed that it was difficult to remove the person next to me from my life. They went from not liking it to talking about everything, and it took them a whole summer. It took them three years to go from not saying anything to no one daring to speak first. At that time, the school rules were strict and the inner thoughts of young people were not visible to the public. So the thing that was growing quietly and crazy could only be hidden - hidden in the notes passed around, hidden in the silence that hesitated to speak, hidden in the harsh words "I don't like you". You can't hide your love. But they insisted on hiding it, hiding it for their entire youth. Many years later, when the sound of cicadas started to sound again, Shen Yu would always think of the girl sitting by the window, and those words that were finally spoken many years later - In the middle of summer that year, the sound of cicadas was just right. You came from the shadow of the tree and shocked my whole youth.