Youth tears streaming down

Author: Shangguan Xiaoxiao
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: A long, tragic campus literature, hiding an alternative truth within university life. The university nurtures a vast vitality, where one hundred thousand people will have one hundred thousand and one dreams, ambitions, or whatever else you might call them. They are like bubbles in a pot of boiling water, struggling, expanding, and eventually bursting within these short four years. Because once the beautiful facade is torn away by the merciless reality, revealing the broken truth beneath, it inevitably leaves a heavy blow. During my sophomore year, a certain kind of language was popular in the university. Some said: "We were deceived by the fancy recruitment posters." Others said: "We were deceived by the named professors." And some even said, "We were deceived by love." At that time, the troublemakers had just begun to follow us into a decline. After a drunken night, one of them, filled with anger, said without a doubt, "In fact, we were all deceived by ourselves."