"If you can't catch up, you'll hit me."
The book has five chapters in total, narrated by the first person, "I" - Li Kaihua
Introduction to the novel:
Chapter 1: Telling about "my" father Li Taiyou's love, marriage and ideals 20 years ago
Chapter 2: Telling about my childhood and the "gangster" history of my friend Haodong, as well as the inexplicable and unusual friendship between "me" and him.
Chapter 3: Telling about a relationship experience of "my". Compared with twenty years ago, the experiences of father and son are very similar.
Chapter 4: Telling about the family burden caused by "my" father Li Taiyou's gambling habit and the bad relationship between husband and wife
Chapter 5: It tells about "I" going out for fun after the college entrance examination, "picking up girls" with my friend Haodong, and unexpectedly meeting my old lover unexpectedly.
This book attempts to describe the different psychological characteristics of the two generations through their different pursuits of love and ideals, as well as psychological and ideological wanderings, and present the similar impulses and yearnings of young people of different eras.
[This book takes emotions (love, family, friendship) as the theme, and the continuous changes in time and space as the main form. It tells the life experience of two generations at the turn of the century, and presents a shattered ideal, as well as indescribable love and friendship. ]