Lin Zhou stood at the gate of Jiangcheng University of Technology, looking at the sign in a daze. He scored 398 points in the college entrance examination, just above the mark. He was the second to last person in the class to receive the admission notice.
Until he saw the girl named Su Nian at the class meeting. She scored 437 in the college entrance examination, more than 20 points higher than the first-tier class, but she fell into the second-tier class because of her volunteering.
A scumbag and a fallen academic are originally from two different worlds.
But during military training, she fainted, and he sat with her under the shade of a tree all afternoon. She said: "You are different from others."
Since then, the window seat on the second floor of the library has become their "old place".
She helped him with advanced math and told him over and over again the definitions of extremes that he couldn't understand. He stayed with her through every breakdown she had because she "shouldn't be here." From scoring 62 points in high math to passing the exam for the first time; from being able to draw a mechanical drawing crookedly to being able to independently design a reducer; from "not knowing what to do in the future" to agreeing to take the exam together in Wuhan.
In the past four years, they had quarreled, blushed, cried on the playground, and spent countless late nights in the library. The fat man said that they were "not from the same place", but they just became fellow travelers.
On the day of graduation, Lin Zhou received a national scholarship and was admitted to the National Key Research Institute. Su Nian was admitted to Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a graduate student.
This is a story about growth - from a scumbag who knows nothing to a person with direction. This is also a story about companionship - two children who come out from the bottom, find light in each other, and then go further together.
