Chapter 11

For several days, the intense, almost torturous treatments left Ethan with frequent headaches. However, amid the pain, a person slowly began to appear in his mind—the happy me, the shy me, the crying me.He saw me when he returned home from the office, my gentle features bathed in warm light. He remembered me at the amusement park, shyly curling into his arms, and the mischievous me he had spoiled, bold enough to tease him. He even saw me during the car accident, bloodied, scared, and trembling as he held me protectively.And yet… why had that accident happened? Every time he tried to dig deeper into the memory, sharp pain would stab at his head.He returned to the consultation room and reported his progress to the psychiatrist, then lay back on the hospital bed, waiting for the hypnotherapy. His consciousness slowly drifted, as if walking down a narrow path. On either side of the path, pure white avalanche roses hung from every tree—my favorite flower.Back when he hadn’t yet

Chapter 12

It felt like a nightmare. He had only taken a nap, and when he woke up, he had lost the person he loved.Outside the hospital room, Ethan, who had collapsed into unconsciousness, finally woke up. In that moment, all his memories returned.When the car went over the cliff, his only thought had been to protect me. However, when he realized he was covered in blood and didn’t feel any pain, fear hit him hard. He was afraid he might die before he could confess his feelings and give me the perfect proposal he had promised me. That was why he kept reminding himself to go to Fall University and confess to me on Richmond Road—the place where he had first met me, and it was true love at first sight. Yet ironically, the repeated reminder was the very reason that caused his memory loss.Now, three years had passed, and I had suffered so much, living with a version of Ethan whose memories were frozen at eighteen years old. No one understood better than him that eighteen-year-old Ethan had be

Chapter 13

Ethan kept himself alive on sedatives, but no matter how strong the drugs, the body would eventually grow resistant. Hence, when the sedatives stopped working, they switched him to hallucinogens.The psychiatrist strictly controlled his dosage, and Ethan never argued or resisted. He simply stockpiled an entire month’s worth of supplies and took them all in a single day.By the time Ethan’s parents returned, he had wasted away to nothing, his body almost skeletal. They brought Millie in front of him, hoping she could wake him up.Ethan looked at his parents, whom he hadn’t seen in nearly ten years, and felt nothing but irony. Millie, as usual, couldn’t read the room. She stood there chattering away as if nothing had changed. The absurdity of it all made him miss his medication. So, he called his bodyguard and had the three of them thrown out.Behind the bars, Millie finally noticed the storm brewing in his dark eyes. For the first time, her usual bravado faltered. She muttered some

All Chapters of In The Summer, Where Cicadas Buzz: Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13