This novel adopts the form of a traditional Chinese chapter novel, which was extremely rare after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is set in the early 1980s, just after the country's reform and opening up. It takes the Youth Road in Southwest Sichuan City, which was the first to appear in the market economy and is famous throughout the country, as the stage. It follows a group of graduates. The protagonists are young men and women who graduated from high school in the early 1970s and returned to the city after their own hardships in life. They faced the ups and downs of life and faced the torrent of the times, and the turning points, fateful transformations and emotional entanglements that occurred when they faced the ups and downs of life.
Intention: A "Picture of Sichuan City Along the River" in the 1980s, a "Biography of Youthful Sons and Daughters" at the beginning of the reform and opening up, a "History of Life and Entrepreneurship" of wasted years of hard work, and an unforgettable "Grand View Garden of Love" that is unparalleled in the world.