When the wild gardenias among the sleepers fail, we bury our secrets in the rusty rails. The moment her white skirt passed by, all the butterflies in the world were fleeing. It took me many years to understand that what fell on her skirt that year was not a lepidopteran insect, but our courage that was crushed by reality but still fluttered.
Purpose: In the educational enclave at the urban-rural fringe, the second generation of migrant workers completed a tragic breakout from structural oppression by building a three-dimensional survival system of "violence-technology-smell". The novel is not only a disenchantment of the education modernization process in the 1990s, but also a spiritual epic that vindicates the names of those being disciplined - those seemingly depraved youth are actually the life marks of disadvantaged groups growing up in the cracks of the system.