Love 'til the End of Summer (Rush to the Dead Summer / Xia Zhi Wei Zhi / 夏至未至)

Your name is Li Xia?

It's a nice name.

Gosh, he looks so handsome even when he's sleeping.

He's simply...

Talking students.

If you can be as quiet as the sleeping students in the back row

our classroom's discipline will be much better.

How was your first day?

Nothing great. It was full of disasters.

You'll get used to it soon.

What are you saying? Thanks.

I heard our school has a lot of fun clubs.

There's ballet, accordion, piano, and drawing.

- Are you going to sign up? - I don't think so.

Our homeroom teacher said

we have a quiz every week and an exam every two weeks

and we'll be ranked.

Time is money so I won't be participating in extracurriculars.

Exams are certainly important but you can't forget about drawing.

If you like it, don't give it up. If you do, you don't really like it.

It'd be a shame if you don't sign up for drawing, according to my logic.

I'm not a genius.

If I hadn't spent all my time on studying instead of drawing in junior high

I wouldn't have gotten such good grades.

Right here. The art studio is recruiting.

Art Studio is recruiting!

[If you have a dream to draw the world under your pencil tip...]

"Godless Past".

When will I be able to draw such an incredible drawing?

"The only thing capable of steering your life isn't God."

"It's the voice of your heart."

Was it the wrong decision to give up on drawing?

Li Xia!

Li Xia.

What are you so absorbed in that you don't hear me calling you?

I'm looking at a painting.

I began liking this artist in my second year of junior high.

Oh my gosh!

Song Ying Ying, does your family run a convenience store?

How did you know?

Let me introduce myself.

I am Song Ying Ying, destroyer of convenience stores.

I see one, I'll eat my way to their oblivion.

Knowledge of the best foods out there is completely self-taught!

I'll introduce myself too.

My name is Li Xia, like the solar term for the start of summer.

Braces Girl, Chen Wen Jing.

My name is Ren Xiao Fei. You can just call me Xiao Fei.

Xiao Fei, are you unhappy?

No, I'm just a little homesick.

I placed a pastry on each of your desks. They were made by my mom.

It'll taste like home.

Thank you.

I ate it already. It was yummy!

Xiao Fei, this must be your first time boarding school.

When I first started boarding school, I was like you too.

However, I have a great method for treating homesickness.

Looking at hot guys!

I dream of being the girlfriend of these handsome men!

There are so many. Do you have the time?

Handsome guys? The more, the better!

Xiao Fei, it seems you really like anime.

I particularly like Hayao Miyazaki.

I want to make animations like his.

That sounds amazing.

In the past, I've copied Hayao Miyazaki's Totoro.

You guys like Totoro? I do too.

Don't you guys think I'm like its long-lost sister?

Oh goodness.

Are you all right?

The dorm room is too small.

In order to fit, I'm going to have to start dieting.

Look.

I've even figured out my life's goal.

Before Year 3, I'm going to be as slim as a bolt of lightning!

What do you think?

Li Xia, what do you want to do the most in your three years of high school?

Me?

I want to...

take up drawing again

and draw the whole world under my pencil tip.

You're all so ambitious.

Right now, I just want to eat another carton of ice cream!

What happened to dieting?

After ice cream! I promise!

You all have the period and you still ate ice cream?

What a risk.

Eating is my greatest ideal.

For the sake of eating, I'd risk any peril, regardless of the cost.

- It hurts. - Here. Careful, it's hot.

Close the windows. Turn off lights by 10 p.m.

Prepare to go to bed. Turn off power at 10 p.m.

Here.

Ying Ying.

Thanks.

I'm going to turn off the lights.

- Take this. - It hurts!

Crap! This hurts so much!

Are you guys going to be okay? Should we go to the school infirmary?

It's said on that night

none of the boys from the first floor to the third floor could sleep.

As a result, our dormitory made a name for itself.

Here.

By the way, where are my five drawings of sculptures?

Here are the paintings I owe you.

This is not bad.

This isn't your style.

It's quite good.

Lu Zhi Ang.

I take back my words. What the heck did you draw?

Little Dragon Maiden?

- Sakuragi Hanamichi? - Don't throw them away.

What's this? Monkey King?

What does this chicken mean?

All right. I'll give you the remaining four in installments.

Who would believe you?

How's this?

I'll take 10 cans of cola for each painting.

Then my cola for the month will be set.

Are you a thief?

Who told you to draw random stuff?

To be honest, I'm really looking forward to my upcoming high school life.

- Thank you. - Go on.

Two, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Three, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

First segment.

Ready, start.

One, two, three, four.

The boarding students can even have group exercises.

Let's try it when we get the chance.

Can you get up that early?

You can just wake me up.

I don't want to do that. You're really irritable when you get up.

I'm lucky if you don't drop a flower pot on my head from above.

Li Xia, you became an overnight celebrity.

What?

I heard about last night.

This exercise is so strange.

How indiscriminate in choice of friends.

What do you think about that girl just now?

I think she's quite cute.

Who?

Li Xia.

Who's Li Xia?

What's wrong with your memory?

You're not going to forget me one day, are you?

I'm talking to you.

Who are you?

When shading, make sure to pay attention to the choice of pencil.

Li Xia, you can do this.

First of all, you need to find where light and shadow meet.

Then determine where there is direct, reflected, and indirect lighting.

Then use black, gray, and white to differentiate them one by one.

In their first classroom

most people wouldn't take the initiative to meet

classmates who sit outside of the immediate vicinity of their seat.

Yet, with this distance of one desk

you were at the desk in front of me

and I sat in the seat behind you.

We were enclosed in an unusual circle.

Whether willing or not

in the years of our youth

you were in front and I was in the back.

I... I'm sorry.

Are you okay?

Keep quiet in the classroom. Loud noises are annoying.

Hi, Li Xia.

Why are you nervous?

Let me see.

Let me see! Quick!

No.

Why don't I show you mine?

Not even a glimpse?

No, you really can't.

Li Xia, why don't you just let me take a glimpse?

Just one glimpse.

When did you become so interested in drawing?

I've always been interested, all right?

Really?

It's true.

I'm the type of person who pursues art.

In that case, I'll leave my drawing homework to you.

Fu Xiao Si, you're so thick-skinned.

I'm helping you establish your life's dream.

Why don't you let me establish yours?

Ji Si, I didn't know the Stony-Faced King would be so good at drawing.

In the moment I saw his drawing, I realized

my own efforts have been far too inadequate.

Keep quiet in the classroom. Loud noises are annoying.

When God was creating mankind, he must have been biased as well.

Why do such weirdos exist in this world?

They're good at everything.

They can even shine without having to make any effort.

Where is it? Put your back into it!

If I'd known this would happen, I'd have been vegetarian!

It's not an issue of being vegetarian.

It's a matter of how much you eat!

I can't even fit into the tennis dress in the largest size.

I can't attend this tennis lesson.

No, don't give up, Ying Ying.