This is a beautiful and unforgettable love story of a group of young people in southern Guangdong from the mid-to-late 1980s to the early 1990s. The novel takes the love tragedy of Qi Linfeng and Shen Xinqing as the main line, interspersed with the intricate and tortuous romantic stories of Guo Yinghong, Zhao Xingang, Chu Daiqian and others, and deeply explores the noble human emotions behind the emotions between men and women.
Qi Linfeng, a graduate student at Guangzhou Nanguo University, met Shen Xinqing, an actor from the Cantonese opera troupe, on a train. The two quickly fell in love, became infatuated, and pledged each other to each other. Their love has withstood the test of reality. Three years later, when Qi Linfeng received a scholarship to study for a doctorate in the United States, Shen Xinqing suddenly left him. Qi Linfeng, who lived and died for love, was in pain and wandered alone in the United States, waiting for the next drift of his life.
The novel focuses on describing the pursuit of true emotions, the lingering pathos of passionate love, the intricate emotions, the suffering and pain of real life, and the power struggle on university campuses.