The College Beauty's Predicament

A fourth-year law student at Jinling University.

The years of preparing for the bar exam are filled with the sweetness of youth and love.

She is the campus beauty, admired by everyone. Born into a wealthy family and blessed with radiant beauty, she is every male student's goddess and dream girl.

After winning third place in a city modeling competition, her life takes a wrong turn.

A mature deputy general manager from outside the university. Secret late-night pickups in a BMW. Two relationships running in parallel, and tangled flirtations with multiple people behind her phone.

She spins lie upon lie, burying the secret of her abortion. Despite her wealthy family, she makes things up, borrows money from one person after another, and flirts with them, using new loans to cover old ones, until she is saddled with more than two million in debt.

In the end, her lies are exposed and she is sent to prison. Her former class monitor, now a practicing lawyer, meets her again in prison as her defense attorney.

Behind the prison walls, they let go of their past grievances, but the wounds of the past prove too deep to overcome.

Their youth on campus fades away, but each of their lives reaches a different ending.

A half life adrift like duckweed, borne away with the flowing water; one cold, rainy night lays a famous flower to rest. (Nalan Xingde, "Shanhua Zi")

Of all things in the world, nothing stays. A beautiful face leaves the mirror, just as a flower falls from its tree. (Wang Guowei, "Die Lian Hua")