"When the South Wind Blows Over the North Sea" is a youth literature about native family and self-growth. Due to pressure from her patriarchal grandmother, a northern girl named Jing Jing transferred to Jiangnan to study with her mother who did not want to have a second child. In a hazy high school, she met her classmate Lu Jiaojiao and her classmates - Su Chengyang, a high-ranking student who should be kept away from strangers, and Lin Rui, a lively and sunny student. The free and easy-going Northern Baiyang collided with the enthusiastic and publicized Jiangnan teenagers, sparking youthful feelings. However, half a year later, they moved north again due to their mother's unexpected pregnancy.
During the winter vacation of his senior year of high school, Su Chengyang traveled thousands of miles to tutor Anjing in physics. The boy's excitement hidden in the formulas quietly sprouted in the stacked test papers on the desk. Behind him lies a complicated life experience: his half-brother Su Chengchao, who is eight years older, built a safe haven for him with his awkward love. When An Jing was admitted to the Medical University, Su Chengyang gave up the politics major arranged by his family and was admitted to the School of Foreign Languages of a neighboring school to pursue his dream of becoming a diplomat.
Eight years passed, An Jing welcomed the new baby in the delivery room, and Su Chengyang guarded peace in the negotiation room. From the all-night lights in the anatomy room to the simultaneous interpretation room in the United Nations conference hall, they carried the scars and stars of their youth, and finally held each other's hands on the campus boulevard where cherry blossoms bloomed. This work uses delicate brushstrokes to outline the growing pains of an only child in the tide of the times. It not only contains the philosophy of life under the surgical knife of obstetrics and gynecology, but also the feelings of family and country in the international situation. It also hides the profound dialogue between two generations on fertility, education and self-realization.
