- Time period: A modern urban high school setting, in an era when smartphones are widespread but surveillance systems have yet to achieve full coverage.
- Location: Qingteng High School, a provincial key school with a secret "Special Talent Development Program." The rose garden in the school's southeast corner is an important setting for key events.
- Central conflict: Competition for resources between ordinary students and specially selected students, with an information war simmering beneath the campus's harmonious surface.
