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Autumn Cicadas Know Not Summer

share time: 2025-12-21 06:03:22

At the end of summer, photographer Lin Xiaoman suddenly disappeared while shooting autumn cicada materials by the sea, leaving only an unnamed “cicada exoskeleton” negative in her camera. When autumn deepened, Gu Chuan, a bar singer, always heard cicadas chirping late at night, with a recurring image in his mind—a girl in a blue shirt smiling at him with a camera: “Autumn cicadas have never seen summer winds, just like you’ve never seen how I waited for you.” When he followed the memory to Xiaoman’s rental house, he found the fridge covered with their dating notes from last summer, and a medical record in the drawer: Gu Chuan lost nearly a year of memory in a car accident last summer. Xiaoman faked her disappearance to wake him up, using “autumn cicadas” as a clue. But at that moment, Xiaoman’s phone popped up a hospital message: “Leukemia relapse, need to be admitted immediately”…

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