The novel Love of Hawthorn Tree tells a love story in the 1970s: Jingqiu is a beautiful girl in the city, and she has always felt inferior because of her bad family composition; The handsome and talented son of the military commander, Lao San, fell in love with Jingqiu and was willing to do anything for her. He waited for Jingqiu to graduate, to work, and to become a full member. When all Jingqiu's wishes came true, his third child died of leukemia ... It is understood that this story that made all readers cry is completely true. On the 30th anniversary of the death of the third child, Jingqiu handed her memoirs of 30 years ago to her friend Amy and asked her to write a novel, but most of the dialogues in the novel were Jingqiu's original texts.

Since the novel is about the love story of Jingqiu and Lao San, although it is the cleanest, it can also be called a romance novel.