Chen Yihan, a thirteen-year-old first-grade girl, is trapped in an airtight report card. In the name of "for your own good", her joys, sorrows and joys were quantified as the rise and fall of her ranking, and the whims and whims in the pink notebook were completely replaced by the dark blue wrong-question notebook. The head teacher used "other people's children" to spur her on, and her mother occupied her rest time with weekend sprint classes. Even the school's psychology classes and gratitude education eventually turned into tools for a new round of involution.
When her peers were running outside the window, Chen Yihan found that she seemed to be gradually losing the ability to speak, like a machine that was set to "silent mode" and mechanically executed a program called "growth". She met an equally silent transfer student, and the two exchanged forbidden graffiti on the back of their math papers, but they still couldn't resist the crushing rules of the world.
This is a realistic novel focusing on adolescent mental health. It uses cold and restrained brushstrokes to tear apart the absurdity and depression under the surface of warm education, and records the spiritual dilemma of a generation of girls under the expectation and pressure. There is no bloody redemption, only silent echoes - when the system cannot be overturned, she can only learn to digest the unseen pain in the gaps alone.
Intent: Use "mute" as a metaphor for disciplined youth, and question the nature of education and individual dignity in the tender violence of "for your own good".