The Yangzhuang Story

On August 18, 2026, the teachers and students of the 1986 graduating class of Taoyuan Middle School in Rugao City held a reunion. The handsome boys and beautiful girls who had been fifteen or sixteen back then were now all men and women over fifty! The classmates reminisced about the past, filled with emotion.

Forty years had flown by in the blink of an eye! Many classmates had become social elites and leaders in their fields. Others were tycoons with fortunes to spare, spending money like water. Through their own hard work and perseverance, they had gone from humble beginnings to lives of wealth and privilege.

But there is no denying that some classmates were unable to change their fate, and some even paid with their lives. Their stories give us much to reflect on.