Thirty-Two Kinds of Allure, Five Hundred Shades of Beauty

In a small town in the mountains, all sorts of people rub shoulders. A bunch of thugs and layabouts steal chickens, pilfer dogs, pick fights, and scrape by however they can. Zhong Duoyu was a model student and top scholar as a child, dreaming of becoming a respected pillar of society. But fate had other plans. Every time he took the college entrance exam, something went wrong, and in the end he even wound up in prison. After his release, he joined a bunch of street punks, drifting along the margins of society. They were the most insignificant nobodies in town. But even they could blossom in the lowliest dust. Their story, too, was full of warmth and beauty.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.