The Boy from Water Country

Name: The Boy from Water Country
Author: Green Pepper Pu'er

水乡少年

by Green Pepper Pu'er (青椒普洱)

Status: Completed
Length: 150k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Youth Sweet Romance
Updated: 6mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

The Water-Town Boys tells the story of Chen Chu and Cai Linxi, two young people from Q Township in T County, Zhejiang, from sixth grade through college graduation and into their working lives, between 2001 and 2018. It's a collective memory of a generation: the smell of disinfectant during the SARS outbreak, radio commentators calling China's World Cup qualification, countless stars over the school field on nights when the power went out, duct tape wrapped around a Famicom controller cord, hands secretly clasped beneath desks, the river that never stopped flowing by the bridge, and a red bean ice pop only half melted. Over seventeen years, they journey from Q Township to Hangzhou, from childhood to adulthood, clumsily and sincerely loving each other through every little moment of everyday life. Dedicated to everyone who grew up in the late eighties and early nineties, to an era we can never return to, and to all of us who once watched the sunset from a bridge. And dedicated to students today, to show you what school was like for your parents back then.

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