Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and the heroine stayed in the northern countryside since she was a child, living with her seventy-six-year-old grandfather. There were only three students in the same class, and the other two moved to other places with their families. In the end, she was the only one left in such a large primary school. She is very talented and has always ranked first in the town's education bureau's unified examination. She has been hiking to and from mountain roads alone since she was in the second grade of elementary school, never letting her elderly grandfather pick her up.
Compulsory education is free of tuition, and the family is financially well-off, but the grandfather always keeps all the money sent back by his children, thinking about his granddaughter's future. After graduating from elementary school, she followed her father to study abroad. She passed the high school entrance examination with excellent results and was admitted to a key high school. However, she was forced to drop out of school because of her stepmother's obstruction and rented a small house to make a living alone. After the grandfather learned the truth, he repeatedly criticized his son on the phone for being unable to protect his daughter, and repeatedly offered to save money for her to return to her hometown to study. The heroine was afraid that the old man would be worried, so she always concealed her embarrassment.
The year after her grandfather passed away quietly, she learned the bad news from relatives in her hometown and hurried back to the empty old house. The yellowed certificates on the wall and the old iron box full of savings on the bedside were everywhere filled with the tenderness left by her grandfather. Many years later, she wrote about the suffering and tenderness in the countryside. The novel became a hit all over the Internet, she successfully signed a contract with a publishing house, and won the Lu Xun Literature Award. She has fame, wealth, flowers and applause, but the regret that she can't let go of her whole life is that she couldn't rush back to see her grandfather off for the last time.
Purpose: To write about the warmth and regret of being left behind in the countryside, cherish the loved ones around you, and don't regret it until you lose it.