Years Like a Song is a modern, full-length novel told in chapters, comprising one hundred chapters and over a million words. The author pours an abundance of emotion into the work, using delicate prose and beautiful language to paint a vivid, realistic picture of life. With time as its axis and the principle of letting the story unfold naturally, the novel reflects the social changes and development of the twenty years from 1997 to 2017. Years Like a Song centers on the different stages in the lives of four women, with their romantic relationships and careers as its main threads. It portrays birth, aging, sickness, and death; love and hatred; the myriad faces of the world and the many flavors of life. By continually shifting between male and female perspectives, it engages with social realities and the spirit of the times, reflecting how people from different social classes live, and especially the hardships women face as they strive to survive and advance in today's society. Through its portrayal of ordinary people's love, marriage, family, work, entrepreneurship, and daily lives, Years Like a Song depicts their joys and sorrows, their unions and separations, while documenting the great era we live in.
