The old auditorium, which has been in service for thirty-eight years, is determined to be demolished.
A batch of old tapes forgotten in the storage room and dusty for ten years accidentally tied the radio station director Shen Jiayan and the new transfer student Zhou Yanchuan together.
A person has a habit of using "keeping it right" as an armor to protect himself. He acts with caution and restraint, seeks stability in everything, and is unwilling to step out of the established safety zone.
A person who believes in "telling everything clearly", is stubborn and sharp, and refuses to turn a blind eye to ambiguous truths.
While being forced to work together to sort out the tapes, the two secretly launched an anonymous late-night broadcast called "Seventeen Minutes in the Morning."
Seventeen minutes is short, just enough time to lay down an unpolished sound.
The program quietly fermented, and the radio station, innovation laboratory, student union, track and field team, and small circles that were originally parallel were involved. The fragmented recordings on the tape reveal an old story about my father's generation that was buried by the years.
Disputes, obstacles, failures, and oncoming public doubts pushed them to the forefront. Two completely different ways of life are constantly colliding, and estrangement and trust grow alternately.
Shen Jiayan gradually understood that being always right does not buy stability.
Zhou Yanchuan finally understood that not all stories can get a clear answer.
They were not saved by anyone, nor did they become anyone's salvation.
Just learn to admit your inner fears and take on your own responsibilities.
The friendship between young people does not have to be limited to love. They walked side by side for a while, and then calmly watched each other go off to their respective lives.
Bulldozers will eventually roll over the remains of the old auditorium. After the college entrance examination, everyone disperses to different cities.
Buildings will disappear and youth will eventually fade away.
But those voices that have been carefully listened to will remain.
Purpose: This book is intended to write about a kind of growth that is different from the "love is salvation" in popular youth narratives. Shen Jiayan avoids pain by "keeping it right", and Zhou Yanchuan fights chaos by "must speak clearly". Both are armors used by young people to defend themselves against the world. The story explores memory, truth and regret through images of old tapes, late-night broadcasts, and auditoriums about to be demolished: We don't have to insist on standard answers to everything, and we don't have to rely on another person to repair our own imperfections. Real growth is seeing and accepting your own fears, being willing to take on your own part, and respecting each other's independent life trajectories after meeting, arguing, and parting with others. The friendship between teenagers can be deep, but it does not necessarily have to be love. The auditorium will eventually die, and the traces of the times will be erased, but those voices that are sincerely made and listened to attentively constitute the proof that we have stayed in the years.