Back to High School: Raising Myself All Over Again

An old-fashioned alarm rang beside her ear. Zhou Yu struggled to open her eyes and stared blankly for a long while at the iron bunk bed frame found only in high school dormitories. She climbed off the wooden bed and looked at the impoverished girl in the mirror: worn-out, ragged clothes and trousers two sizes too big, held up by two shoelaces tied together at the waist.

Yesterday's trending topic seemed to have been: If you could go back in time, what moment would you want to return to most?

Zhou Yu felt a little dazed. For her, the insecurity of her youth had haunted her all her life.

Theme: Hardship tempers the will, and effort helps you become your best self.