"North of Northeast" is a realistic novel about youth, love, family and growth.
In the summer of 2005, Fang Shuyan, a young man from a small town in Northeast China, took the college entrance examination. He has average grades, a sincere and humorous personality, loves football, literature and music, and has a crush on his classmate Lin Xiaoxia. After the college entrance examination, he was admitted to the law department of the provincial capital university, but Lin Xiaoxia went to another city because of poor performance. The two kept in touch amid the ambiguity and waiting, and their youth truly began after an exam.
University life introduced Fang Shuyan to the larger world. A series of experiences such as welcoming new seniors at the university, football matches on campus, student union sponsorships, second-hand mobile phone business, the 2006 World Cup, forming a campus band, selling original songs and getting lost in the night in a bar, etc., Gave him a taste of freedom, money, desire and being seen in college. At the same time, roommates Xu Hao, Qin Bo, and Chen Youqi also took different paths in life.
Lin Xiaoxia once loved Fang Shuyan seriously with her sweater, phone, long-distance train ticket and small account book, but Fang Shuyan gradually disappeared in the excitement. In his senior year, his father Fang Weidong died suddenly of illness, and Fang Shuyan fell into a trough. Liu Manshi's sober departure, Lin Xiaoxia's silent look back, his mother reopening the stationery store, and the appearance of Su Qing, his childhood sweetheart, all made him understand little by little: growing up is not about going further, but finally being willing to take on your own destiny.
