Long Summer: I Put You in the Indictment

At fifteen, Gu Yan found a stunned sparrow beneath the notice board, and found Chen Mo too.

He thought the summer would go on like that forever: eating together, standing at attention together as punishment, waiting for the rain to stop together on the rooftop.

Until, at eighteen, he saw his father's name in the study at Chen Mo's house, along with a safety rope that had been replaced.

Some summers take twenty years to repay.