"Love Is Strong by the West Lake" is a realistic novel that shows the love life of a young man and woman in Hangzhou, Zhejiang since the 1990s. The novel revolves around peasant families, student dormitories and workplaces, with Zhang Xiaoqiang and Yao Yongyan as the center, unfolding their learning and growth experiences in different periods from the countryside in Xihaigu to Hangzhou, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, from middle school students to college students, and then to work. Cheng He's love story reflects human nature's self-improvement and struggle, suffering and struggle, learning and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, campus life and social life, which are intricately intertwined. The storyline is full of twists and turns, soul-stirring, and has the flavor of the realist era.
Purpose: To show the two-way love journey of contemporary young people