Bitter Summer

"Crushes are like a bitter summer."

Summer of 2019, an online crush story suddenly became popular. Under a colleague's recommendation, Shen Qingli opened this story.

Every plant and tree in the book carried a familiar and authentic atmosphere. Someone even revealed that it was written by their high school senior.

As if by fate, she opened the Weibo of the crush story's author, where a comment under a post caught her attention: "If you had to use two words to describe your crush, what would you use?"

Shen Qingli stared at the comment for a long time, and finally typed two words on her phone to answer the question: "Bitter Summer".

The vague figure of a boy from her memory emerged with the scorching summer. Unlike many conventional crushes, the person she liked was also the one she hated the most.

He had once shared a rain shower with her on a scorching afternoon, had talked with her about a secret matter, and in that same summer, heard him say to her face that he had never known her.