A Promise on a Sunny Day

In the winter of 2000, twelve-year-old Xie Xinxin spent the pocket money she had saved for a week on a cassette tape called Jay. She had no idea that this decision would change her life. That cassette brought her to Wei Rufeng, a boy who loved Jay Chou just as much as she did. They met in a record store, listened to music on an abandoned railway bridge, sang side by side at a school talent show, and shared a pair of earphones on countless ordinary evenings. Jay Chou’s music became an invisible thread weaving their youth together: from “Starry Mood” to “Silence,” from Fantasy to Yeh Hui Mei, every song captured a moment in their journey of growing up. This is a snapshot of a generation’s youth. From cassette tapes to CDs, from MP3s to streaming, from school to the working world, from adolescence to middle age, the times change and people change, but some things never do. Spanning forty years, this novel follows the music of Jay Chou to tell a story of growing up, companionship, passion, and steadfast devotion. It belongs not only to Xie Xinxin and Wei Rufeng, but also to everyone who grew up listening to Jay Chou.