High School Trials

This is the story of an unlucky kid named Wei Yuan, seventeen years old, with the college entrance exam hanging over his head like a guillotine, ready to fall. Wei Yuan drills practice questions late into the night every day. His world is reduced to black-and-white test papers and red corrections. But no one knows that when he fills in the final answer on his exam, a real dragon turns over in the clouds outside the window. Fate never asks if you're ready. It simply puts a key in your hand, then kicks you straight into “purgatory.” The college entrance exam is this city's little dragon-slaying trial, and he is the good-for-nothing who can barely hold a sword. But even a good-for-nothing has something he wants to protect: the girl who smiles at him from a corner of the library, and the deskmate who always says, “You can do it,” only to start crying first. So the boy grits his teeth and, in the warm June breeze, launches his clumsiest yet most determined charge at the monster called “the future.”