short series

Promise You the Return of Midsummer

share time: 2025-11-06 06:04:01

Five years ago, on a midsummer morning, Lin Xiaoman and Lu Shiyan planned to watch the dawn sea, but her boyfriend vanished without a trace, leaving only a silver ring engraved with "Return in Midsummer". Every year since, she's waited at the old alley's ice jelly stall—their first meeting place—when the cicadas sing. This midsummer, an old motorcycle stops by: the man wearing the same ring takes off his helmet, and it's Lu Shiyan! But his first words are "Miss, want some ice jelly?" and a little girl calling him "Daddy" stands behind him. Xiaoman clutches the old ring, realizing the "return date" from years ago hides a life-or-death secret he never told her…

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