First-person narration, traditional gender transformation, urban romance.
Xue Jinshu, the top scorer on the high school entrance exam in his small town, had poor college entrance exam results in his senior year after his parents divorced, and ended up at an ordinary university.
His father remarried in the blink of an eye, while his mother gave herself over to gambling and refused to quit despite repeated warnings. To pay off her debts, he chose to drop out and work.
At nineteen, he was diagnosed at the hospital with female pseudohermaphroditism. The exorbitant cost of surgery broke his spirit. With not a penny to his name, what could he do?
This book is filled with the pain of parting from loved ones, meeting those one resents, longing for what one cannot have, and being unable to let go. This is a journey through life on the brink of death, facing fate at its most monstrous and witnessing resilient flowers bloom from a swamp of despair!