Midsummer, when the cicadas are noisy, should have been the season to rush to the new campus. I was fifteen years old, and I had the qualifications to be admitted to high school, but I was forced to be trapped between the kitchen stoves. I tried communicating, asking for help, and leaving all the evidence, but no matter how unwilling I was, all my expectations seemed small and ridiculous in the face of my family's fixed ideas. It turns out that certain backgrounds will lock in a girl's entire ambition.
Purpose: A young girl, Xu Wan, passed the high school entrance examination, but was prevented from going to high school by her parents who favored boys over girls. She fought against the old ideas of her native family, redeemed each other with the overachieving boy Lin Yu, and fought for the right to education. It focuses on the plight of women studying, breaks the prejudice that girls do not need to study, and conveys the power of young people to be unwilling to accept fate and bravely save themselves.