First Year in Love is a milestone in the novelist Wang Yuewen's career, in which the two basic literary dimensions “politics” and “sex” are combined into the exploration of human nature. Hereby, First Year in Love is more of a book of human nature than passionate love. The motivation of this novel lies in the “middle age crisis” experienced by the author and the figures in the novel, and the solution is the moral and physical infidelity. In Wang Yuewen's understanding, love is just a way of spiritual cultivation while marriage is a return of love.