Flower Season Novels -- Youth Gate

Author: Zhang Hong
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Youth is not just a natural gateway; it is also a complex event, a mysterious crisis. Everyone must go through it, but how to navigate it well? This story features three girls: Li Qiao'er, An Jiwen, and Lin Xuemi. They come from different, either visible or hidden backgrounds, entering the high school classroom of Fengxiangshu Middle School and stepping into their respective teenage years. Amidst the ordinary lives, the tide of youth surges ceaselessly: about friendship, about generation gaps, about the difficult-to-escape competition of academic pursuits. They laugh, they cry, they get excited, and they feel discouraged. The three girls resolutely step through the threshold of youth, completing the transformation from naive adolescents to young adults who have begun to understand the world. This transformation turns their pale lives into vivid, colorful chapters. However, the differences in human color are so great: Li Qiao'er struggles in solitude, almost being consumed by it, but thankfully finally breaks free; An Jiwen pays the price of being expelled by filling the void in her own way; Lin Xuemi successfully enters college as she wished, yet feels lost and disheartened.