A campus romance novel in the realistic sadistic style, it tells the story of the childhood love between Lin Shen, a laid-off worker's son, and Su Qian, a girl from an intellectual family, who spanned fourteen years (1993-2007). The story is set in "Mei Town", a small town in the south of the Yangtze River. In the era of state-owned enterprise restructuring, college enrollment expansion, and urban-rural mobility, two teenagers are drifting apart due to family class differences. One will bury his deep love in his heart until the end of his life, and the other will mistook habits for friendship until it is lost forever.
