Multiple protagonists | Group portraits of women | Youth campus | Cool articles
In Huadian, a small town in the northeast, the depletion of gold has taken away the prosperity and vitality of the past, leaving behind the heavy reality of population loss and resource scarcity. This is the epitome of a typical resource-based city. Education has become one of the few vines that children from poor families can grasp. Huadian City No. 4 Senior High School, this provincial third-class key high school, carries the city's last hope for further education.
In the autumn of 2024, four girls from different junior high schools—Cheng Yi, Wang Xiyue, Zhang Youyou, and Yu Xueying—fatefully met in Class 8 and started a passionate youth drama that belonged to them.
There are no shortcuts to the competition, no recommended quotas, and art students are regarded as the wrong path. Resources are scarce like winter, and the college entrance examination is the only bonfire. In 2027, they will face the era of overpopulation of college students and the cruel squeeze of a huge base of candidates. Score is the only ice pick in the hand of a poor girl that can carve out the future.
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In the midsummer when rust spreads, youth grows jointly between the red list and the test paper
Concept: Group portrait of women
