If Life Is Just Like the First Meeting is an original work by the author Chen Bai. Protagonist: Xi Chenbai, female, born in the 1960s, the early days of the Cultural Revolution. The novel revolves around the urban life in small and medium-sized cities in the north, through the heroine's birth to middle age. The focus is on the heroine's love, which is both romantic and tortuous, and also has some tragedy. Over time, the heroine has grown from a novice to a mature white-collar worker. It reflects the changes that took place in the fields such as the common people, technicians, entrepreneurs, bankers, and the judiciary from the early days of the Cultural Revolution to the early days of reform and opening up, as well as the changes that took place between people, including family, friendship, and schoolmates. Reform and opening up first liberates people's thinking.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.