Whose Youth Is Without a Little Heartache?

This book tells the stories of two women born in the 1980s, whose lives and experiences could not be more different. Sun Ling and Zhang Na are best friends. Before Sun Ling was even a month old, her grandmother gave her to relatives to raise. She did not learn the truth about her birth until she was thirteen. Through years of hard work, Sun Ling, who could sing and dance, grew up to become a kindergarten teacher. After starting work, she finally found love and eventually walked down the aisle...

Zhang Na, however, had a very different life. Spoiled from childhood, she grew up in a family of civil servants, wanting for nothing, with a bright future ahead of her...