This is a novella with the growth of rural children as the axis. The story describes a group of children in the early 1980s in a small village in eastern Sichuan. With endless boredom for the countryside and endless longing for the city, they stumbled all the way and finally settled in the city and gained their own careers and families. However, when they reached middle age, they all chose to return to the countryside and realized the value of life in the industrial development of the countryside.
The protagonist of the story, Wu Haoran, is a representative of the first generation of left-behind children in rural areas. His fierce personality, uprightness, and loyalty attracted the favor of Wang Yan, who lost his father, and established a love relationship with her. Their relationship lasted for twelve years, during which Wang Yan successfully completed high school and was admitted to university with Haoran's help. Haoran came to Guangdong with his sworn brothers, and unfortunately became a gangster. In the end, by some strange combination of circumstances, he became the eldest brother who dominated the world, and then became a prisoner. When Haoran was in prison...
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
