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[College Entrance Examination Substitution + Era Reality + Female Growth] What is replaced is not only their names, but also their lives. Jia Pingwa and Yang Zhengguang jointly recommended! This article takes the college entrance examination substitution incident as the background, interviews two people who have experienced the college entrance examination substitution, and narrates the intertwined first half of life of two post-80s women on the basis of in-depth social reality. It also reflects the changes of the times from 1980 to 2020. Wang Yiou, who comes from a cadre family, and Yu Duoyun, who comes from an ordinary family, spent their magical and innocent childhood and crisis-ridden adolescence together in a small town. After the college entrance examination, Wang Yiou replaced Yu Duoyun, and used the name Yu Duoyun to go to college, graduate school, and public institutions in a big city, married a university professor with a habit of domestic violence, and became a person who "seems to have it all."

The novel tells the ten-year life of two best friends in girlhood from the age of 23 to 33, and focuses on the conflict between ideals, love and reality of post-1985 women in the current era. Yuan Xue, a smart and sensitive orphan who works part-time at the Calligraphy Association, and Wang Xinchun, a second-generation official who is full of nymphomaniacs. The two have very different origins, but they face the same emotional entanglement. Yuan Xue's artistic live-in boyfriend quit his job and was so poor that he almost had no food to eat; Wang Xinchun got married under the arrangement of the director's father and the doctor's mother and took the civil service examination. However, the marriage between Wang Xinchun and her husband Xu Lidong was a joke: except for the right conditions, nothing else was suitable. By chance, the two girls who were frustrated by reality regained their old friendship...