White ginkgo in the wind

Author: Ji Feng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: A pair of teenage boys and girls who have been classmates from primary school to high school. The boy is intelligent and handsome, while the girl is quiet and beautiful. They grew up admiring each other and had a long-standing secret crush, but were too shy to express it. On the eve of graduation, fate arranged for the boy to be accepted into university, while the girl was to inherit a legacy abroad. The two parted reluctantly under a white ginkgo tree on campus, but never revealed their feelings. Amidst the tide of reform and opening up, the girl, now a wealthy businesswoman, (resolutely returned to invest in business), and reunited with the boy, who had become a news editor. After waiting for many years, the two finally came together and worked hard to build a new career. This long (novel) centers on the love story of Bai Liang and Ye Guo, depicting the life trajectories of a group of classmates, as well as their camaraderie, emotional entanglements, struggles for power and money, and the complexities of gratitude and enmity. It showcases the true mentality of young men and women during a period of social transformation. The novel is narrated in a first-person perspective, with an intimate and natural tone; the plot is vivid and (twisting and turning), the characters are well-defined, and the language is simple and fluent, making it highly readable and artistically moving.