Not Confused at Seventeen Years Old

"Not Confused at Seventeen" takes the growth trajectories of four high school friends as the main line, connecting multiple narratives of college entrance examination, friendship, family and ideals. Lu Chen, a physics genius, is burdened with his mother's unfinished research on star orbits and struggles between competition and family ties; literary girl Shen Qinghe uses words to fight discipline, but redefines herself in the vortex of suspected plagiarism in college entrance examination essays; basketball boy Cheng Ye is torn between NBA dreams and family expectations, and finally completes redemption in a charity game accident; class teacher Shi Jing has witnessed changes with 30 years of teaching experience and has become the most secret spiritual coordinate of this group of teenagers. The work uses reality as the incision, and through ups and downs of narrative, it shows the group portraits of youth under the tide. Images such as the star path chart, wrong question book, and cherry blossom festival are used throughout, paying tribute to the collective memory of the post-90s generation. When the classmates meet again at the observatory ten years later, the scattered star trails will eventually be pieced together to form a complete answer to youth - there is no standard trajectory in life, but every choice to correct mistakes is worthy of tears. ---