This novel tells the story of Lin Wanxing, a 19-year-old Hunan girl who went south to work full of hope. She inserted components on the assembly line of an electronics factory day after day, wrote diaries under the camphor tree, and thought she had found spring in her brief love. The fast pace of life in the factory and the disillusionment of love dragged her inch by inch toward the abyss. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2003, she hanged herself under a camphor tree. This is a story about a girl who was crushed by life, and it is also the collective tragedy of a generation of working girls in the wave of industrialization.
