Guān guān jū jiū

Author: Zhao Meng
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: "The Song of the Cuckoo" is a long campus romance novel, published on the "Tianya Virtual Community." It began on January 16, 2004, with one post published online each day, concluding on March 17, 2005, spanning over a year. "The Song of the Cuckoo" records the youth journey of those born in the 1970s. The main story revolves around campus scholar Geng Xiao and his love for two girls, Meng Fan and Yang Xueping. One is a red rose—passionate, sincere, yet somewhat willful and vain; the other is a white rose—gentle, graceful, and understanding. The author states that this story can be considered a "semi-autobiographical" novel, but in reality, every person born in the 1970s can see their own reflection in the story, making it a "private novel of the 1970s." The plot is genuine and touching, with vivid details that sometimes make readers laugh out loud and other times bring them to tears. Anyone who has experienced university life, is in their prime, or has had a truly pure youth will find similar emotions and be moved by the novel. This is because the living, breathing Geng Xiao, Meng Fan, and Yang Xueping in the story may be familiar people to us or even ourselves. As a netizen named "Drunk Eyes Viewing Flowers, Flowers Also Get Drunk" said: In reality, every generation just keeps repeating the same stories.