Old Times on Campus

Introduction to the work "Old Times on Campus" "Old Times in the Shadow of Wutong" takes "youth that cannot be returned" as its core proposition, and integrates the innocent and pure youth love line. Through the perspective of the protagonist Lin Xiaoman, it reproduces the daily fragments of a small southern town high school in the early 21st century. The total length is about 7,000 words. It uses delicate life details to connect a youth narrative about growth, regret and nostalgia. The stage of the story is set in Nancheng No. 1 Middle School, which is full of French plane trees. The protagonist Lin Xiaoman is a girl with average grades and loves to hide in the corner of the library to read essays. The appearance of the transfer student Chen Yu breaks her peaceful high school life - he brings the northern boy with him. Cheerful, he would secretly pass notes to her to talk about topics in math class, and would accompany her on a long way home just to chat a few more words on autumn evenings when the sycamore leaves were falling. The two of them quietly developed an ignorant affection in the sound of reading in the morning and under the dim light of evening self-study. The novel does not have intense dramatic conflicts, but more of a true restoration of the details of youth: the half piece of strawberry cake secretly shared after the monthly exam, the iced soda that Chen Yu handed Lin Xiaoman at the sports meeting, the confession that he did not dare to say on the eve of graduation, and at the class reunion many years later, the two reunited under the former sycamore tree, but only the regret of "Long time no see" was left. The core emotion of the work is to capture the "unreplicable nature of youth" - those times that were thought to last forever, those unspoken thoughts, those moments missed due to shyness and timidity, eventually become the most precious fragments in memory.