Beyond Full Marks
满分之外
by Geng Lin (庚霖)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 2k Words
- Chapters
- 1
- Genre
- Romance
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 1mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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Synopsis
When Wen Yihao stepped into the campus of a provincial key high school for the first time, he realized that the world is really big. Teenagers from different places gather here. They have excellent results, clear goals, and a future that is expected by countless people. In this place where rankings are used to measure efforts and results are used to define value, the article is well written but still unable to answer one question: If one day I am no longer good and no longer meet everyone's expectations, am I still worthy of being liked? The art students who came from the county town entered a new world with their sensitive, confused and unfinished selves. She once tried hard to be what others liked and carefully maintained every relationship, but she never learned how to accept her true self. She once met Ji Leyang. That boy was enthusiastic, free, and bright, like a beam of light that could not be ignored in youth. He had seen her at her most clumsy and immature, and he had convinced her that even her imperfect self could be firmly liked. However, people who are afraid of losing often dare not truly own it. Between approaching and retreating again and again, she pushed the person she was most familiar with into the distance. Later, she met Xu Zhiyan. He is an outstanding young man in everyone's eyes, with excellent grades, gentle personality, and an enviable life trajectory. But behind those haloes, he is also looking for an answer - whether he can still be himself without achievements, identity and expectations. He noticed that Wenyi was good, not because she was dazzling, but because of the way she looked at the world. She will stay for the misunderstood people, think about the complexity of a person, and ask the question itself when everyone is looking for a standard answer. At the same time, the friends and classmates around her are also facing the confusion of youth in their own way: some are chasing ideals, some are struggling in reality, some are learning to trust in friendship, and some are looking for understanding in family relationships. They experienced exams, choices, quarrels, and reconciliation together, and also faced the confusion brought about by growth. They once thought that youth was a game that must be won, and they must be the perfect answer in the eyes of others. It wasn't until later that I realized: Excellence is not everything a person has, achievements are not the only proof of life, and love is not the way to save another person. Real growth is to find your own answers beyond perfect scores. Intention: People cannot just be an object to be evaluated, but must become a complete person