In Dalian in 1999, OICQ's penguin head flashed on the computer screen, and the sound of keyboards in the Internet cafe mixed with tears; on a rainy night in 2001, the unspoken "I'm sorry" under the old locust tree was swallowed up by the sound of rain; in the cemetery in 2025, the wind blowing over the stone tablets finally hid a sigh of relief.
This is not a perfect love. It has the excitement of young people dating online, as well as the suspicion caused by the sensitivity of single-parent families; the joy of football victory, but also the silent regret behind the B-ultrasound; the determination of "serious illness", and the relief of middle age. The word "love" that has been repeatedly altered and the B-ultrasound sheets hidden in the cracks of the wall are not deliberately sensational props, but the "unfinished" that each of us has in our youth - it is the unspoken retention, the stubbornness that is full of misunderstandings, and the "confusion at the time" that we only understand after many years.
You may feel that the early foreshadowing is "delayed", but youth is not a plot that can be pressed with the fast forward button. Fuchuan's fist hitting the wall, Qiao Qiao's crumpled sheets, Lingshan's expectation of "peace and joy", those emotions hidden in the details are the truest form of love - slow, but with the weight of time.
If you have loved, missed, or regretted in your youth, you may see yourself here: the night when you were waiting for news on your mobile phone, the quarrel that refused to bow due to pride, the "what if" that suddenly came to mind at a certain moment many years later.
The wind blows over our true youth, blowing the greenness into maturity; time will blow over the memories, grinding the pain into tenderness. When you open this book, you feel like saying goodbye to yourself twenty years ago.
Intention: Taking Dalian in the late 1990s as the background, and using Fuchuan's life trajectory, it connects the sensitivity of single-parent families, the pressure of reality, the self and compromise in love and other growing pains. It not only restores the "imperfect reality" in the love of the Millennial generation, but also writes about the healing power of time: from the paranoid rivalry in youth to the relief of reconciliation with the past and self-acceptance in middle age. Finally, using the metaphor of "wind blowing in the waves of wheat", it conveys the attitude towards life that "the regrets of youth will settle into the tenderness of life, and the people and things missed will eventually become the light that illuminates the present in memories", triggering a universal resonance of "love and growth" and "regret and reconciliation".