The story begins in 2003. Jiang Lili, a freshman, learned that her high school classmate died unexpectedly, and lamented that life is impermanent but youth is eternal. Setting foot on the land of her hometown again reminded her of her three years in high school. She was ignorant, frustrated, reborn, and ostracized. She restrained, strengthened, and let herself go. The definition of youth is growth.
The whole book shows the high school mathematics, physics and chemistry in the memories of those born in the 1980s, the relationship between classmates who were both enemies and friends, the popular pen pals of that era, knitted bracelets, Bigfoot ice cream, pop music, SARS, etc. 22 Chinese and foreign poems connect the poetic and picturesque emotions of the male and female protagonists, and find a breath of fresh air in the cramped examination-oriented education.
The emotional context of the book is clear and the characters are distinct, involving secret love, companionship, bestie love, teacher-student love, atypical relationships between father and daughter, mother and son, and old love between elders.
The language of the whole book is lively and lively, never procrastinating, the plots are tightly set, interlocking, and have a beginning and an end. It aims to restore the truest appearance of youth. No matter what the ending is, we should be grateful to youth.