Beware the Mediocre

Name: Beware the Mediocre
Author: Yin Mu

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by Yin Mu (殷木)

Status: Completed
Length: 370k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 10mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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161Chapters

320Reads

5.8Score

107Shelves

24Listens

3.7kReads · all time

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Realistic fiction · Unrequited love with a bad ending · Small-town life · Ordinary people · Coming-of-age · No golden finger Based on the true experiences of friends, this story is told from a male first-person perspective and follows Jiang Xin through the ups and downs of his youth in a small southern county town from 2005 to 2014. He was once an elementary-school prodigy admired by everyone. But from the moment he started middle school, his life quietly began to veer off course. As a boy, he experienced the vague, innocent stirrings of first love. But the long, tangled push and pull between him and Lin Qiyu would become the most significant part of his youth. Trapped by the constraints of personal relationships in a small-town society where everyone knows one another, he is held back by the timidity and hesitation deep within him, leaving him repeatedly unable to decide whether to advance or retreat in love. His grades steadily decline, and his fate rises and falls. From middle school and high school through university, more than a decade piles up layer upon layer. When he looks back, it feels as though he has lived an entire lifetime. There is no cheat-powered comeback, nor any perfect redemption. After meeting and parting several times, and making one misaligned choice after another, ordinary people must ultimately bear the full cost of the mistakes they made in their youth over the long years that follow. The writing is raw and realistic, and its impact lingers long after you finish reading.

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