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In the autumn of 2003, a new photo was posted on the bulletin board of No. 1 Middle School in Suiling County. Gou Mian, who had just graduated from Harbin Normal University, returned to this small northeastern city that she had always wanted to leave and became a mathematics teacher at her alma mater. Here, she reunited with senior Ren Zhilong, who graduated two years earlier and taught biology. Similar origins and destinations brought the two local young people together naturally. Ren Zhilong's life is just like the biology class he teaches, regular, practical and predictable. He planned his future early: a step-by-step married life. The love he gave was concrete and warm, like soy milk in the cold winter morning, the repaired dormitory light bulb, and the "stable" guarantee that everyone said. But in the warmth day after day, Gou Luomian heard another voice in his heart - a throbbing that was unwilling to be completely covered by the established trajectory, and an unquenched desire for spiritual resonance. This is not a fierce conflict, but a slow misalignment of two visions of life in a peaceful daily life. In 2008, they each got married, and their partner was a more "suitable" person. He married a gentle nurse, and she married a husband who could talk about education. They still live in Suiling, teach in the same school, and would nod and greet each other when they met at the vegetable market. This past story is about the choices and costs of young people in small towns, and about the more subtle struggles and arrangements after "staying". In the end, they lived on the same land and became two samples of happiness. In this way, they reached a profound reconciliation with their youth and each other.

Art performance, accidents and the rumored aloof school girl Sit together. "He's not as aloof as the rumors say." Becoming my girlfriend, I slowly discovered-- Where is the coldness? He's obviously a fool! "