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Taking the late 1980s to the late 1990s as the background of the novel, this book narrates Ermu's ten-year life history from the age of 12 to 22 in the first person. This process is also the entire process from rural to university graduation: starting from the age of twelve, he had a special feeling for Aunt Qiu. However, Aunt Qiu's suicide left a shadow for Ermu. Life continues to move forward. There are always many stories about the embarrassment in junior high school and the adolescence in high school. The changes in the family have made college life unhappy. He has experienced social changes, changes in friends, changes in the family, spiritual struggles, first love, etc. Life prompts people to think philosophically about life, and finally integrate into the social trend, and find their own position and balance between the beauty of ideals and the backbone of reality. This work reflects from a small aspect the society, stories, family and emotions experienced by this group of people in their forties in China during the era of great social changes. The narrative is simple, simple and true. The work describes the details from a unique perspective, like a quiet narrator narrating, making people immersed in the scene and generating deep resonance.