Chronicle of My Youth

The three green years of high school are a grand journey of youth that cannot be repeated, hiding the secret heartbeat, clumsy temptations, silent regrets and two-way redemption of young people. In Jiang Yichen's youth, love has never been a single template. From the stubborn and paranoid one-way rush in the first year of high school, to the sweet and relaxed passionate love in the second year of high school, it finally settled into the unforgettable soul salvation in the third year of high school. In the autumn of his first year of high school, he was obsessed with the cold and reserved Su Huining. He secretly hid little poems full of thoughts, used MP3 players to hide his feelings, tried countless times in the corridors, and finally ended the one-way pull with an uncontrollable kiss on the stone bridge of the Botanical Garden. Entering the second year of high school in the liberal arts class, the old friends gradually fade away. Jiang Yichen and Wang Xinyi solved the knot of their past and started a secret and sweet inter-class love. They walked together after evening self-study and met quietly in the corridor. Shen Jiayan let go of the past and entrusted his heart to the quiet and reserved Bai Xiangmo. He expressed his love with a figure and started a long-term and gentle one-way protection. Time has entered the senior year of high school, the superficial love has ended smoothly, and Jiang Yichen truly has a deep intersection with Bai Xiangmo. When they first met, the experienced man deliberately played the role of a perfect gentleman and carefully tested Bai Xiangmo, who had never been in love and was sensitive and autistic. As time went by, their curiosity-like affection turned into sincerity, and he regarded her as the salvation to cure his impetuous past. The two experienced quarrels and estrangements, but in the silence of sharing an umbrella, they saw each other clearly, accompanied each other, and reshaped each other. The girl emerges from the darkness and cowardice, and the boy sheds his pretense of impetuousness. At the end of the college entrance examination, he gently reconciles with all the regrets of youth, and reaps the growth and relief that belongs to each other. Purpose: This article takes the protagonist Jiang Yichen's three years of high school as the main narrative line, relying on the heartbeats and encounters of teenagers at different stages, to describe the most authentic youth. The core purpose is to dismantle the love, hate and growth of youth, interpret the ultimate meaning of youth healing, reshaping and reconciliation, break the traditional single love narrative of campus literature, and focus on the transformation of young people's mentality and self-perfection. Youth is never perfection achieved overnight, but a gradual process of trial and error and growth. The paranoid one-way rush in the first grade of high school is the pure and reckless sincerity of a young man, the youthful obsession that does not know how to measure and let go; the sweet and passionate shallow love in the second grade of high school is the relaxed rush after internal friction has faded, and is the unique magnanimity and tenderness of teenagers; the two-way redemption after settling in the third grade of high school is the maturity of knowing sincerity and cherishing after experiencing the world and seeing regrets. Three completely different emotions, progressing layer by layer, completely outline the whole process of a young man's psychological transformation from impetuous and blind obedience to calmness and sincerity. The work breaks the stereotype of youth being either sweet or abusive, and depicts the most authentic appearance of youth: the regret of not getting what you want, the joy of not having a taste of it, the gentleness of deliberate disguise, and the redemption of two-way healing. There is no standard answer to the love of youth. Some people stop waiting and watch, some people rush to it enthusiastically, some people end it with regret, and some people finally achieve perfection. All ignorance, temptation, miss and staying together are the unique marks of youth. At the same time, the novel deeply interprets the core meaning of two-way reshaping and mutual healing. Jiang Yichen, who has rich emotional experience and impetuous temperament, and Bai Xiangmo, who has never been involved in love and is sensitive and autistic, have mutual success. One side learns to put aside utility and performance and give sincerity; the other side walks out of darkness and cowardice and embraces openness and openness. The best destination of youth is never just love, but also two people correcting themselves, healing the past, and becoming better selves in each other's company. In the end, it is about the reconciliation with youth: all the heartbeats that end in vain are not regrets, and all the absurdity and clumsiness of youth are the foreshadowing of growth. Those ended feelings, missed people and detours, together piece together a complete youth, allowing young people to understand tenderness, propriety and sincerity amidst the fireworks and regrets, and complete their own growth and redemption.