This is the story of a girl from Northeast China in the 1990s who heads to Beijing with a guitar and a dream. It is a work of realism, with a touch of the painful, introspective literary style left over from the last century. To be honest, it does not follow the usual wish-fulfillment formula. I have reluctantly added a few tags under the categories, so please don’t take them too seriously. Stories like this are rare in the usual web-novel circles.