Kang Yue is a low-achieving student who studies hard but fails to get good grades many times. She is taciturn in class and suffers from low self-esteem. She is often ridiculed at home by her harsh and realistic aunt. One afternoon in the second grade of junior high school, she met a boy who was one year younger than her and was doing a small job in the school's newly built teaching building. The boy had never read a book and had no name. Others called him Xiao Jiang. Kang Yue felt unprecedented pride in front of him. She had just learned Su Shi's Jiangchengzi, so she gave him a single name for a city, Jiangcheng. ... Jiang Cheng gave her a lifetime of pride...