He Huaixu, a tenured professor of Meng University, was invited to give lectures in Hangzhou. While chatting with a good friend, the other person's words "Do you remember him?" Instantly opened the memory gate of his past with his first love Chen Hanli: first acquaintance, hug, negotiation, ride, daily life, confession, application, separation, Football games, starry sky, scandals, independent enrollment, first meeting in Shanghai, sleeping together, defeat, two years stolen by clouds, lunch for three, unknown phone calls, engagement prelude, and letters from afar all hit He Huaixu's memory like bubbles. Time has passed and they are no longer teenagers in high school. When they are over 40 years old, they meet again in Hangzhou. The so-called bystanders, He Huaixu is the bystander of the two boys who fell in love for the first time, Chen Hanli is the bystander of He Huaixu, and the readers are the bystanders of the whole story. After twenty years of separation, the time flies has not changed. Will they continue to be as beautiful and sweet as they once were?
Concept: From an artistic point of view, this novel adopts a nested mode. In the end, readers will discover that everyone is a bystander. From the perspective of ideological content, on the one hand, this novel promotes the pure and beautiful view of emotion that "there is only one orientation, that is, the direction of the heart"; on the other hand, it reflects the impact of native environments such as family and campus on people, triggering thinking about relevant issues today.