Zhengzhou Loves You so Much That My Heart Aches

China's first semi-autobiographical novel describing the life of self-taught students working in the city. The novel mainly focuses on the working life experience of eight brothers who graduated from the same dormitory of a third-rate university in Zhengzhou. It uses the eight characters Xiao Shiyilang, Hua Mankou, Li Xunhuan, Hua Wuque, Chu Liuxiang, Shen Lang, Ximen Chuixue and Lu Xiaofeng from Gu Long's novel as the protagonists. It tells the friendship, love and working life of eight people with different personalities and experiences around them, reflecting the difficult working life of contemporary self-taught students.