The turning point in her sixteenth year came in a windowless storage room.
After her parents died in a mining accident, Lin Changyan was taken in by her aunt and brought to Zeding, a small county town barely on the map. As a top student with nothing going for her besides her grades, she firmly believed that "keep quiet, work hard, and don't cause trouble" was the only way to survive, until all the rules she had grown used to stopped working here...
The blond cousin she remembered, the prickly delinquent girl, the dependable older guy with a bad leg, the rowdy classmate who was always cracking jokes... The truth had a force all its own. These vivid, flesh-and-blood people shattered the unconscious sense of superiority she had carried.
At the same time, the truth about her uncle's death in the line of duty slowly came to light through her aunt's silent perseverance.
A girl falls from a high bridge. A friend tries to take their own life. The truth keeps unfolding... When fate strikes again, can she learn to rise from the ruins?
And once she stands up, where will she run?
[Small-Town Life | An Ensemble of Ordinary People | Realistic Slice of Life]
The whole novel is finished and will be posted gradually~
A few things to know before reading: A healing, serious drama, involving grassroots anti-drug enforcement.
No CP, but there will be various emotional arcs.
Includes some southwestern dialect, but nothing too hard to understand~
Premise: The stones of other mountains can be used to polish jade.
