At the Friendship Hotel, the twenty-three-year-old classmates quickly filled half the hall, chatting joyously about their expectations for the future.
In their class, everyone was retaking the year. The pressure of repeating a year was greater than that of their peers who were just in their senior year of high school. Over the past year, they dared not relax. Every day, the first thing they did upon opening their eyes was to think about that day's study schedule: the unfinishable test papers, unexplainable problems, unendable classes, and unmemorable texts.
Today, after the college entrance exam was over, everyone's pressure was suddenly gone. Even though they didn't know their scores yet, they started to let loose, and many students had some drinks.
Xu Nianhua was drinking soda, which tasted quite good. She was sitting next to Zheng Jin, who, despite her quiet-sounding name, was anything but quiet and liked to talk a lot.
