You are smiling, yet I am crying.

Author: Liu Defeng
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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 widely broadcast 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 using preliminary exams to students. Shen Xiao's classmates Liu Guoqing and a few others, dissatisfied with their poor performance and unwilling to be prematurely judged as "doomed," steal the exam papers from the academic affairs office and ask Shen Xiao to help create the standard answers. A storm of controversy erupts—classmate suicide, parental conflicts, the school and teachers' lack of understanding, the shattering of romantic aspirations, and adolescent restlessness. All kinds of pressures, conflicts, and disputes burst out before the college entrance exam, and Shen Xiao, caught in the middle, faces a crisis of trust, abandons the exam, and unexpectedly gets involved in a drug trafficking incident. 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 outstanding results, being admitted to Peking University Medical School.