In September 2025 in Xiangzhou, 30-year-old Chen stood outside the demolition fence in the old city. The red brick buildings had been flattened, and only the old camphor tree guarded his youth. He recalled that in the autumn of 2010, when he was 15 years old, he failed the high school entrance examination. His weight of 189 kilograms made him shrink into the last row of the No. 3 Middle school classroom. The embarrassment of his native family made him full of inferiority, thinking that his life would be ruined in this old and shabby elementary school in Xiangzhou.
Fortunately, on the first day of school, Zhao Lei reached out to him, and he had four brothers. The five of them shared a piece of chewing gum, cooked meat in a copper pot, talked about the future by the Xiangjiang River, and stayed with each other through the war-torn youth. In the early morning when he was studying in Guilin, a coat handed over by Su Wanqing became the first ray of light in his gloomy youth.
He began to desperately want to change, losing weight, reading, learning to draw, and living the dazzling life he imagined in his notebook into reality step by step. In the past fifteen years, he has made a counterattack out of Xiangzhou from a poor student, grown from a fat boy with low self-esteem to an open-minded adult, and grown from a teenager trapped in his original family to become his own supporter.
Now the wind is blowing back to Xiangzhou, and those family buckets that can't get enough money together, the scarves burned by the Xiangjiang River, the heat in the copper pot, and the brotherhood that calls for a lifetime, all the days rotting in the mud and the hot youth are hidden in the wind. And he finally lived the way he wanted.
Intention: Young people are not afraid of being born in mud, and will eventually rely on self-growth to live in the sun.