Youthful Dreams Layered in Time

The Dreams of Youth Dyed by Time portrays a youthful romance spanning many years, full of twists and deep affection. In the summer of 1997, the male and female leads were born in a small town, beginning a twelve-year "demilitarized-zone war" filled with laughter and bickering. During their school years, they shared elementary school textbooks gnawed by mice, grew twin mushrooms in a leaky middle school lab, and exchanged notebooks of wrong answers beneath the wisteria trellis in high school, their fingertips brushing by accident in all their youthful innocence. On the eve of the college entrance exam, Zhou Yanqing hid a romantic hope among the formulas covering the wall: "I'll take you to Beijing to see the snow." But on the day the results were announced, fate played a cruel trick. He headed north with the town's only acceptance letter, while she carved "Go to the same latitude as him" into the wall of her repeat-year classroom and chose to work hard so she could follow him. From then on, they grew separately while apart, yet strove to draw closer under the pull of fate. Their story is a dream of youth layered and colored by time, filled with longing and devotion, waiting for readers to explore it with them.