A Bookish Southerner's Journey

In the summer of 2004, Mo Fang, a handsome young man born in a rural village in a northern province, finally got into a prestigious university in the south after years of repeating his senior year of high school. His parents wept with joy and knelt hand in hand to give thanks at the family tomb, where two sturdy scallions were growing. It was his first time on a train, and the beginning of a long journey to pursue his studies. Ahead of him lay a carefree campus life, the love he yearned for with all his heart, and, after graduation, a colorful and winding road of poetry and distant horizons...