In the hot summer camp of Wangjiang Middle School, "other people's kids" Gu Xingyao met the sunny and reckless "sports student" Lin Chuan. A piece of pornographic news started the prelude to their secretive and clumsy youth. She is No. 001 In the competition class, struggling with her mother's strict control and the cruel competition at the top of the pyramid; he is a "poor student" in the parallel class, sweating on the basketball court, but there is an insurmountable inferiority gap in his heart. An encounter in the cafeteria, an escape from the lawn, the forbidden book and heartbeat after lights out, the hand that did not fall on the spiral staircase, the fireworks on New Year's Eve... Those cautious approaches, the throbbing of chaos, and finally, under the weight of reality and misunderstanding, ended hastily with a three-second hug in the sun.
Thirty years of time difference, life is bifurcated. Gu Xing went to a foreign country to take root in his studies in equations and precision instruments. In the dust and high walls of a small southern town, Lin Chuan put on a prison guard uniform and held the grappling trophy. The circle of friends has become a silent battlefield and a window for prying eyes. Those dynamics that are "visible only to him" are like pebbles thrown into the deep sea, without arousing any response. From the "safe jet lag" in the afternoon on the Wangjiang Corridor to the immeasurable jet lag in life between the bars and the equation, they eventually lived on their own tracks and became unrecognizable strangers in each other's memories. This is a review of youth that spans thirty years, about unfulfilled first love, about the trajectory rewritten by reality, and about the huge regret that we will eventually disappear in each other's time zone.
Concept: Youthful emotional dislocation and "jet lag"