Small-town teens in '90s China chase love and chaos like their lives depend on it — because they do.
Season 1 • Episode 26
LatestIt follows a group of vibrant teenagers in the early 1990s in Fucheng, a small coastal town in Southeast China. They passionately chase after their youth on the era's train, experiencing uninhibited growth and seeking an extraordinary transformation. In this radiant period of youth, they strive towards a brilliant era of personal growth and love.
Acting
Hou Minghao captures reckless youth with devastating specificity
Production
Fucheng feels lived-in, rotting, and impossibly alive
Writing
Lu Nei's novel adaptation respects pain without romanticizing it
Creator
Lu Nei
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fucheng represents real rust-belt towns left behind by Deng's reforms — the show captures a generation's economic whiplash rarely depicted in glossy C-dramas.
Lu Nei, who adapted his own novel, insisted on casting regional non-actors for factory scenes — those exhausted faces are documentary-real.
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