Mature years

Author: Qin Qing
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Features: What is university? A "wild and decadent" "wildflower youth." What is middle school? A carefree and innocent "flowering youth." And high school? It's that time of inexplicable joy, inexplicable laughter, inexplicable sadness, and inexplicable melancholy—a tart yet sweet, youthful time. Youthful time, the prelude to university's "wildflower youth," the conclusion of middle school's "flowering youth." And in the senior year of Li High, the air is filled with flames. Everyone is confined to their small desks, burying their heads in hard work, rehearsing for the college entrance exam time and time again. What can't be restrained is the heart of a teenager. Eighteen-year-old He Tao is lost in the sea of textbooks, while nineteen-year-old You Qingge awaits her second chance to cross that threshold. Eighteen-year-old Gu Han and eighteen-year-old Song Ying, who seem like oil and water, have been at odds for two and a half years. Eighteen-year-old Meng Chuan, under the glow of academic excellence, has plucked the green apple of love, though it leaves behind the heartache of another. Happy, sad, suppressed, passionate—after all, they are still young. So, ambiguously and intimately, they have walked through three years of youthful days, heading toward the yet-to-be-seen "wildflower youth."