Rocked to My Core

After protagonist Le Yu gets a call from a friend he hasn’t seen in ages, he finds himself thinking back to his college days a few years earlier. Back then, he was always holed up in a rehearsal room with a bunch of same-age “hoodlums,” clutching their guitars and recklessly squandering their youth. They worshipped rock, and calling them “angry young men” wouldn’t be wrong. But “shit-yellow” might be more accurate: they spent so much on instruments and gear to start a band that they were nearly broke, and for a long time they lived on steamed buns. Their faces were naturally malnourished and yellow as shit.

Later, Le Yu met a few girls who taught him the ways of “being a man” by sharing their own experiences. The moment he stepped out of the school gates, he suddenly understood: if a young person who believes in rock can’t rock society, then society will rock him...