A Sky Painted Over

Lin Tutu is a girl from a small village, and her family ranks her as **. With the high school entrance exams approaching, she came home one day and chatted with her mother, only to learn the devastating news: she had suffered from congenital heart disease since childhood. From then on, her seriously ill mother set out to fulfill her wish, borrowing money from one household after another until she finally took her youngest daughter to the capital to cure her. Before one crisis could settle, another struck: her eldest sister suddenly fell ill, catching everyone off guard. After taking two years off school, could she adapt to new classmates and a new environment? She did poorly on the entrance exams. Should she go to vocational school? What should she study? She should listen to her mom's advice. Become a doctor? That might be fine too. She was too naive, or perhaps simply inexperienced... "Once I get my master's degree, I'll become a nun," college student Lin Tutu declared boldly in her new dorm. The four-person room, which she had just moved into during her sophomore year, was shared with friends she'd grown close to as a freshman. As a junior college student, she had signed up for the College English Test Band 4 that semester, yet, desperately short of money, she still had to toil every day at a restaurant. People say time is like water in a sponge: you can squeeze more out of it. Unwilling to settle for an ordinary life, where would fate take her? Life was hard, but...

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