The deepest love is knowing that you still love each other, but you can only turn around and leave. This novel takes "youth regret" as its background and explores how the tear between emotion and reality and the lack of communication during the growth process lead to lifelong regret. Through the fateful trajectories of Ajuan and Ajie from childhood sweethearts to being separated from each other, it shows the struggle of a generation between ideals and responsibilities, freedom and stability. Ajuan and Ajie have lived next to each other since childhood and grew up together. They are childhood sweethearts who are described by their neighbors as "a perfect match". They went to elementary school, junior high school, and high school together, kept each other company, and secretly had feelings for each other but never expressed it. After the college entrance examination, due to errors in filling out their application forms and family pressure, the two were forced to go to different cities to study at universities. Their correspondence gradually became less and less, misunderstandings arose, and they finally lost contact completely after a fierce dispute.
During college, Ajuan experienced emotional trauma and eventually married Chen Ming, a mature and steady doctor; Ajie had ups and downs in the workplace, and fell in love with her colleague Lin Wan for a long time and got married. Ten years later, the two met again at a class reunion, and their old relationship rekindled, but they had their own homes and could not look back. Through restrained and painful contacts time after time, they finally solved their misunderstandings, but they could only choose to "be content with each other", bury their love deep in their hearts, and end up with regrets.
This is a youth elegy about "obviously falling in love but not being able to stay together". It is a profound description of the missed moments and regrets in growing up.
It is not a vigorous love tragedy, but an elegy for youth that flows with still water - there is no villain, no bad fate, only the inevitable miss intertwined by time, family, personality and misunderstanding. May all lovers in the world get married eventually. . .
