You are smiling but I am crying

Author: Xue Xiaolu
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This is a story about "youth against," the years of youth are innocent yet thrilling. The same-titled TV series was broadcast in a loop across various television stations nationwide. Shen Xiao is an excellent senior high school student. With the college entrance exam approaching, Shen Xiao's school openly violates relevant regulations of the Ministry of Education to raise enrollment rates by conducting a preliminary exam to students. Shen Xiao's classmates Liu Guoqing and a few others, due to poor performance, refuse to accept being prematurely judged as "doomed," so they steal the exam papers from the academic affairs office and ask Shen Xiao to help create the standard answers. A storm then breaks—classmate suicide, parental conflicts, the school and teachers' lack of understanding, the shattering of romantic dreams, and adolescent restlessness. All kinds of pressures, conflicts, and disputes erupt before the college entrance exam, and Shen Xiao, caught in the middle, faces a crisis of trust, giving up the exam and accidentally getting involved in drug trafficking. After experiencing a series of setbacks, Shen Xiao finally grows up, gives up the fight, participates in the college entrance exam the following year, and achieves excellent results, being admitted to Peking University Medical College.