On June 7, 2025, it was cloudy, in the Chinese college entrance examination room of Wu'an No. 5 High School, Xu Wei, an ordinary college entrance examination candidate, was less than thirty minutes away from the end of the language exam, but the pen in his hand stayed on the page where the composition was filled, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the title of the composition of half of the proposition- X generation, at this moment, his mind kept floating up to the unforgettable journey that seemed like a dream not long ago, and there was an inexplicable sadness surging in his heart, and a few tears finally fell on the exam paper after a few circles from his eyes without obeying the call

On June 04, 2025, there are only three days before the college entrance examination, and at 16:20 in the evening, it was cloudy, Xu Wei walked alone on Jilong Pedestrian Street in Wu'an City after school and his girlfriend Wang Ting, who was with him in the first year of high school. Xu Wei is a more attentive young man, because he is handsome and likes to dress up often, so he has been loved and sought after by many girls in the same class and grade since junior high school, and even some junior girls, and at the beginning of the first semester of the first semester of high school, he talked to her fourth girlfriend for two months before- After Xiaoyou broke up, he quickly fell in love with Wang Ting in the same class, and the two soon fell in love, at that time, maybe Xu Wei was more mature psychologically, and he didn't want to play as sloppily as before, so he worked hard to preserve the love between him and Wang Ting, but while the two of them worked hard to preserve this relationship, their studies plummeted, so the two have been talked to by the teacher alone many times, and the parents of both sides are quite familiar with each other, but the love between young people is so strong and unhurried, but in the third year of high school, the college entrance examination is approaching, Wang Ting's parents decided to personally pick up Wang Ting home after school every day, Even rare weekends will not let Xu Wei and Wang Ting meet, and Wang Ting's mobile phone confiscated, since then Xu Wei spent alone in these most difficult days, Xu Wei's parents also felt helpless about this, because the two worked hard for their careers when Xu Wei was a child, so they often went out on business for a long time, since Xu Wei went to junior high school, he lived alone, and occasionally one of the parents would return home to accompany Xu Wei, so the parents often regretted and felt guilty for Xu Wei did not fulfill their responsibilities, they imagined that Xu Wei would send him to study in the UK if he failed the college entrance examination, so that he could gradually forget Wang Ting and their relationship。

Walking and walking, Xu Wei walked to the door of a bookstore and stopped, it was a hot summer, the weather was very hot and humid, so he planned to blow the air conditioner in the bookstore, and by the way to find some relevant college entrance examination review materials, he walked into the bookstore.

When he walked in the special area of learning materials for middle school students, he casually scanned the books and materials around him, and accidentally saw a more beautifully packaged and thicker book sandwiched in the right corner of the third floor of the bookshelf of the liberal arts examination column, and he, out of strong curiosity at that time, instinctively pulled the book out of the shelf. Carefully looking at the cover of the book, the gold-plated wrapping paper, the title of the book is particularly peculiar - the end of the Qing Dynasty Love River, he thought: I have only heard of the Qingming Riverside map, and there are still people who will name a book with this even more bizarre name.

Xu Wei was not a person who liked to read in the first place, not to mention that he saw a book whose author was called Anonymous and the title of the book was very strange, so he instinctively wanted to put the book back in its place.

But just as he wanted to insert the book into the bookshelf, a bookmark fell from the book and fell to the ground, so he put the book back, then squatted down and picked up the bookmark, and saw a black and white photo of a particularly beautiful Qing Dynasty woman on the bookmark, which he had never seen such a beautiful ancient woman before, in his impression, the women in ancient times were relatively ordinary-looking, and even a little unsightly, only those beautiful actresses in the TV series would play those concubines and queens very beautifully。 He pulled the book out of the bookshelf again out of a natural male hormone hunger and curiosity in his body, opened the book, and casually flipped through the first few pages, all of which were black and white photos of concubines, maids, ministers, and elder brothers in the Xianfeng and Guangxu periods of the Qing Dynasty

After a while, he looked at the phone in his pocket, and it was almost 7:05 p.m. He touched his pocket and found that he didn't bring any money that day, he turned the book over and looked at the price of the book, there was no specific price mark on the back, thinking that it was absolutely impossible for this bookstore to sell books without a price mark, this, maybe it was just a prank by one person Since the book has no clear price, it is definitely unlikely that it is a book sold in this bookstore. So I secretly stuffed the book into my school bag, planning to wait for the college entrance examination to read it and then take the spare time to secretly "send" the book back

When he got home, he found that the house was empty, thinking that his parents might be on a business trip so they were not at home, so he quickly walked into his bedroom, put down his school bag, and then ran to the kitchen in small steps, took a few quick-frozen pizzas from the freezer of the refrigerator, put them in the microwave and heated them for a few minutes, he took a plate of hot pizza and a glass of juice and walked back to his bedroom in small steps, and took out the book stolen from the bookstore (love in the late Qing Dynasty) from the school bag, while eating pizza, while flipping through the book and looking at it for a while, he found that the book had no text, only pictures, but there were some marked text notes under each picture, thisXu Wei liked to read - the fewer words, the more he was happy, he looked at the pictures in the book, while laughing, sarcastic about the appearance of the characters in the book, the photo poses of those people, and some of the relatively backward utensils used at the time, but he wondered in his heart whether the beautiful woman on the bookmark was a real person who existed at that time, but why did it not appear in this book

Flipping and looking at it, he felt tired, so he fell asleep on the desk