I am an authentic Shanghai student, living a cyclical life every day. I live with my mother in an alley in Zhabei. My mother was a withdrawn woman, and no neighbors would talk to her. Everyone said that she killed my father. I often hear my mother crying alone in her room, and I cry too. My mother said: "Boys, how can you shed tears so easily to give your mother some air!" I always nodded desperately. Since I was a child, I have never lost to anyone!
I have always liked a girl, a quiet girl. I thought I could be happy. I thought...