The novel mainly tells the high school life of the female protagonist Shen Ruier and the male protagonist Su Li, with realistic youth campus content. The main body is divided into two clues. Shen Ruier fell from a top student to a problem student because of excessive mental pressure; Su Li grew from a poor student to a top student because he felt the emptiness of degradation. In this process, the helplessness of students, teachers, and parents under exam-oriented education was revealed one by one. The work does not criticize exam-oriented education from a critical perspective, but rather wants to show the impact of exam-oriented thinking on personality shaping, adolescent mental health issues, and explore the pros and cons of exam-taking itself.
