In the early 1980s, in Xiaosizhuang Village on the coast of the Bohai Sea, Zhang Yunchang, a rural youth in high school, and Zheng Li, a girl from the same village, established a romantic relationship with the verbal agreement of their mothers. Using the youthful struggle of successfully reading and re-taking the exam as a clue, it narrates the sad and relieved love story of Zhang Yunchang and Zheng Li who got to know each other, supported each other, fell in love and stayed together around the "promise". In the end, although they fulfilled the "promise", they still separated sadly.
The novel uses a simple and natural writing style to delicately and seamlessly depict the rural life on the Bohai Sea in the North China Plain in the early 1980s. It simply and vividly depicts the daily life, customs, struggles and aspirations of the men, women, old and young living in this land. Those who have experienced it are nostalgic, and those who will be in the future are nostalgic.
Purpose: It depicts the rural life on the Bohai Sea in the North China Plain in the early 1980s, and vividly depicts the daily life, customs, struggles and aspirations of the men, women, old and young living in this land. It makes those who have experienced it nostalgic, and those who will be in the future nostalgic for their hometown.