Summer, Once More

Have you ever found yourself stopping in your tracks again and again because you fell for someone?

He is a physics PhD and her college English lecturer. She is his class representative, and an unexpected turn in his otherwise uneventful life.

Under the camphor trees on campus, Jiang Tong gently closes her eyes and whispers the words "I like you." When she opens them, the words catch halfway in her mouth, and the sound that escapes her stops at "you."

He is holding the lesson plan he still needs to prepare for class. Jiang Tong gazes into his brown eyes, which seem all the more clear and luminous in the midday sun. Her breathing falters, and the cicadas buzzing beside her sound like a ringing in her ears. Is her face turning red?

The words "I like you" keep leaping through Jiang Tong's mind.

Because she likes him, she falls in love with the height of summer he adores. And the reason he loves summer is connected to her, too.

And so begins their tug-of-war of a campus romance...