Seventeen-year-old Chen Mo has a "happy yet dilapidated" family: a missing father, an absent sister, and a mother who is known as "for your own good". A slap outside the classroom shattered her trust in authority; the fingers she used to hold plates turned white, allowing her to feel the weight of "reality". From the quagmire to reconstruction, it took her twelve years - college, undergraduate, teaching qualification certificate, and finally returned to the podium of her alma mater. When the former victim became a "good for you" person, she finally understood the true meaning of the dimmed desk lamp, the uneaten bag of beef jerky, and the phrase "I want to live for myself." This is a story about silence and voice, fragmentation and reconstruction, seventeen years underground and a summer of cicadas.
Purpose: Women grow up and persist in life