The protagonist of the novel, Kong Yufei, comes from Taixing, a small riverside town. The small town is proud of not only the ginkgo tree, known as a living fossil among plants, but also the famous provincial key high school, Xingtai Middle School. The story begins when Yufei enters this high school.
Xingtai Middle School is a school with a vigorous and resolute teaching style, so the admission rate is also very high. Students from small towns are eager to enter this century-old school. School has not yet started, and the military training for the new freshmen began during the summer vacation. During the military training, Yu Fei quickly met a good buddy, Lao Zhang, and a sissy Wang Dawei whose sexual orientation was unknown. Their acquaintance was quite dramatic. First, Wang Dawei secretly fell in love with Yu Fei. Of course, Yu Fei hated this person extremely, but he met Lao Zhang through Wang Dawei. Many stories happened during the military training. Yu Fei had a crush on the girl Jiaojiao in junior high school. On the high school campus, he unexpectedly discovered that they were from the same school. This time he planned to seize the opportunity and pursue Jiaojiao with the courage to risk everything. In order to pursue Jiaojiao, Lao Zhang gave him advice and won the first battle. The end of the novel.
Jiaojiao finally left Yu Fei and went to France to pursue her music dream. The life trajectories of Yu Fei and Lao Zhang have not changed. There seems to be only a designed endless unknown road in the distance in front of them.