It tells the short but profound life of the boy Lu Li. When he was 7 years old, his grandmother died and he first learned about death. At the age of 10, he was diagnosed with an incurable hereditary heart disease, and his life was marked as a countdown.
Under the shadow of death, his youth was full of struggle and pretense: he was rebellious and used fighting to vent injustice; he also played the dual roles of "school boy" and "school bully" on campus with his appearance and brains; he even stepped into the gray area of campus in order to survive.
At the age of 17, he fell in love with the girl Su Qing and tasted the sweetness and bitterness of first love. But knowing that he could not give them a future, he reluctantly broke up with them after the college entrance examination, pushing the other party to a broader world.
At the age of 19, at the end of his life, he met volunteer Lin Xiao in the hospital. Her companionship and words "You can have dreams even if your life is limited" lit up his last days. He found the ultimate goal in life: to write a book to record everything about himself and prove "I was here."
At the age of 20, fate gave him the final test: his condition worsened, his father had a heart attack, his mother suffered from cancer, and the family went bankrupt due to huge debts. In his last days, he stopped taking his medications to save money, wrote hard, shouldered the burden of his family, and said goodbye to his loved ones peacefully.
In the end, Lu Li passed away at the age of 20. His book "The Lost Winter" was published. His stories have made countless readers think about the meaning of life, love and death - he transcended the length of life through words and realized his desire to "leave traces".
