二十一世纪以来，青春小说以其独特的青春主题席卷了中国文学市场，风靡一时。“青春”主题其实来源于中国现代文学的“青年”母题，青春小说正是描写青年追寻理想与爱情、追寻人生价值这一成长过程的小说。新世纪以来的中国青春小说在其青春叙事上呈现出四个明显特点。在叙事结构上，青春小说多采用单线开放式的故事逻辑，并以套层结构、楔子与番外使单线故事呈现出更丰富的层次；在叙事时空上，青春小说善于用补叙、插叙和空间转换来整合文本的时空秩序，使其疏密有度，圆融自洽；在叙事视角上，青春小说采用人物与作者的双重聚焦视角，二者互为补充，视角切换灵活；在叙事意象上，青春小说则传递出青年对人生问题的迷思与怀旧的审美取向。然而，新世纪青春小说却在趋同的青春叙事模式中迷失了初心。

Since the 21st century, the youth novel has swept the Chinese literature market with its unique youth theme, which is all the rage. The theme of "youth" actually comes from the "young" motif of Chinese modern literature and the youth novel is about the development of young people's pursuit of ideal, love and the value of life. Since the beginning of the new century, Chinese youth novels have presented four distinct features in the youth narrative. In the narrative structure, the open-type story logic of the single line is mostly adopted in the youth novels whose story is presented with a richer layer with the structure of the casing, the wedge and the space transformation. In the narration time and space, the youth novel is good at integrating the order of the text with the reclassification, narration and space conversion, so as to make it dense and self-consistent. In the perspective of narration, the youth novel adopts the two different narrative perspective between the characters and the author, which is complementary to each other and makes the perspective switch flexible. In the narrative image, the youth novel conveys the youth's myth of life and the aesthetic orientation of nostalgia.However, the youth novel in the new century is lost in the convergence of the youth narrative mode.