This is a chronicle of youth that spans twenty years. Starting from the southern town of Baozhen at the turn of the century, it follows the growth trajectories of three young men, Zhang Chi, He Jian, and Wu Kai, and girls such as Luo Sanshan, Tingting, and Wenwen, and unfolds the ups and downs of a generation's destiny in the changing times. The story begins with a long silence after an unfair "money robbery", and goes through the throbbing of fighting to save each other in a movie theater fire, the sourness of delivering love letters to brothers, and the confession that was swallowed up by the sound of water in the Dragon River Valley after high school graduation... They have been repeatedly pulled between ignorant love and passionate loyalty, and they have also turned into feuds overnight due to family grudges. From innocence on campus to complexity in society, from high-spiritedness to edges smoothed by life, the novel captures every heartbeat and miss with meticulous and restrained writing. Seven years later, facing the death of his old friend, his brother's downfall, and the reunion of his mentor, Zhang Chi, who returned, finally understood: the so-called growth is just learning to recognize the sincerity in regrets. And is the girl with the bell in her hair still there?
Intention: We always learn to say goodbye through stumbling, and learn to reunite and feel relieved after a long time.