A Pearl Lost in the Cold River

This is a realistic novel that spans two generations and is intertwined with sweat and tears. The story begins in the 1970s, when Li Wenbin and Wang Yunzhu, who were born in poverty, adopted the abandoned baby Li Jiaqi. In the years of extreme material scarcity, the couple used the simplest love and sacrifice to support Jiaqi's education path - from a rural primary school under a kerosene lamp, to a county experimental middle school, and then to Beijing Normal University with the top score in the county. At the same time, another thread of fate was unfolding in parallel: Under the influence of his single mother Gong Danping, young Ouyang Xudong relied on his amazing sprinting talent to break into the provincial team from the township track step by step, using a pair of worn running shoes to measure the trajectory of his breakthrough. The two lines intersect at the County No. 10 Middle School, a remote township middle school in 2002. Li Jiaqi, who graduated with a master's degree, gave up the high salary in Beijing and returned to his hometown to teach; Ouyang Xudong, who graduated from the Institute of Physical Education, also chose to take root here and become a physical education teacher. From the first encounter under the sycamore tree, walking side by side on Qinglong Mountain, from the melted popsicles on the steps of the theater to the belated "I do" in the office, the two souls quietly approached each other on the playground of Qingshan Town. However, when the marriage was put on the agenda, a meeting in the Juxian Tower in the provincial capital pushed the peaceful life into an unknown whirlpool. The touching chapter of a daughter using blood to save her adoptive father in a car accident is intertwined with the mystery of identity hidden behind the coincidence of blood types - there is some truth, but fate has let it pass her by time and time again. This is a novel about education changing destiny, sports tempering the soul, and family love transcending blood ties. It writes about the struggle and perseverance of ordinary people in the torrent of the times, and also witnesses how two young people ran hard on their own tracks and finally found their destination in each other's lives.

This is a realistic novel that spans two generations and is intertwined with sweat and tears. The story begins in the 1970s, when Li Wenbin and Wang Yunzhu, who were born in poverty, adopted the abandoned baby Li Jiaqi. In the years of extreme material scarcity, the couple used the simplest love and sacrifice to support Jiaqi's education path - from a rural primary school under a kerosene lamp, to a county experimental middle school, and then to Beijing Normal University with the top score in the county. At the same time, another thread of fate was unfolding in parallel: Under the influence of his single mother Gong Danping, young Ouyang Xudong relied on his amazing sprinting talent to break into the provincial team from the township track step by step, using a pair of worn running shoes to measure the trajectory of his breakthrough. The two lines intersect at the County No. 10 Middle School, a remote township middle school in 2002. Li Jiaqi, who graduated with a master's degree, gave up the high salary in Beijing and returned to his hometown to teach; Ouyang Xudong, who graduated from the Institute of Physical Education, also chose to take root here and become a physical education teacher. From the first encounter under the sycamore tree, walking side by side on Qinglong Mountain, from the melted popsicles on the steps of the theater to the belated "I do" in the office, the two souls quietly approached each other on the playground of Qingshan Town. However, when the marriage was put on the agenda, a meeting in the Juxian Tower in the provincial capital pushed the peaceful life into an unknown whirlpool. The touching chapter of a daughter using blood to save her adoptive father in a car accident is intertwined with the mystery of identity hidden behind the coincidence of blood types - there is some truth, but fate has let it pass her by time and time again. This is a novel about education changing destiny, sports tempering the soul, and family love transcending blood ties. It writes about the struggle and perseverance of ordinary people in the torrent of the times, and also witnesses how two young people ran hard on their own tracks and finally found their destination in each other's lives. < Is a rare emotional novel.