A piece of plain paper connects the deep love across thousands of miles of mountains and seas; thirty years of time have accumulated the pure and regretful old relationship of a generation.
This is an emotional documentary novel that is rooted in the countryside and pays homage to the era of letters. The story begins in the slow time of 1996. Wen Qing, a young man from a rural area in southeastern Hubei, fell in love with Xiaoyan, a girl from western Sichuan who was far away from home because of a piece of poetry. In an era when carriages and horses were slow and letters were matchmakers, more than a hundred handwritten letters crossed mountains and rivers. From knowing each other through words to staying together in souls, two sincere young people hid their youthful love, full of expectations and tender care in the ink of the yellowed letter paper.
Mountains and rivers have changed, and times have surged. When the urban wave sweeps across the countryside, the fetters of reality, the choice of family affection, and the pull of time follow one after another. This two-way love affair through letters is worth thousands of miles, but it is hard to match the impermanence of worldly affairs and the randomness of fate.
The book spans thirty years from 1996 to 2026. It uses delicate and realistic writing to write about the fireworks and the changes of the times, and depicts the deep feelings and helplessness of ordinary people in the torrent of time. There is no bloody entanglement, no happy ending, only the most authentic youthful sincerity, half-life regret, the gentleness and obsession that slowed down in the old days, written to everyone who cherishes nostalgia and cherishes sincerity.
