Ten-year-old Yu Xiaochuan has mathematical formulas carved all over his arms. His mother Lin Wencan plans his life with 78 "chicken babies", while his father Yu Yangge - a "model teacher" from a family of three generations of teachers - tore up the principal's admission rate agreement late at night.
"Mom, if I don't get perfect marks, will you still love me?"
When Chen Min, an top student, fell from the teaching building, her diary was filled with "deliberately written wrong" passwords; when parents revealed the shady story in the live broadcast room, they were called "crazy mothers" by the Internet; when Yu Xiaochuan's hacker talent awakened and invaded the education and training system, his father's bribery record popped up on the screen...
Are we raising children, or are we creating perfect victims?
※Teacher Line: The "Sharing Agreement" in the USB flash drive brought Yuyang Pavilion to the brink of collapse
※Parent line: Lin Wencan discovered that behind the sky-high price of cram schools was the conspiracy of all the teachers in the school
※Student line: Yu Xiaochuan's hacker revenge paralyzed the city's mock exam system
"They all said it was for your own good—"
"What a good standard, why is it always a string of numbers?"
(A suspenseful realistic novel that tears open the abscess of exam-oriented education. The triple perspective points directly to the suffocating truth of contemporary education.)
Reader comments
It is a novel that criticizes reality. So profound.
It is a novel that criticizes reality. So profound.