Tales of a Small Town

After the millennium, a small northern town finds itself caught in the cracks of a changing era, where old orders quietly crumble and new rules grow wildly. A group of native-born post-90s youths band together in the restless and chaotic campus, relying on their hot blood and recklessness to fight against bullying and prejudice in their green years, believing that brotherhood can withstand all storms of the world. But youthful arrogance eventually comes to an end. Stepping out of school, they leave behind their innocence and plunge into the muddy waters of the streets and alleys. They are not born heroes, but ordinary people forced to grow up, from penniless grassroots youths to strivers who walk the line between black and white. They face the world together, battling hearts and fighting for survival, drifting and sinking in the town's power games, human warmth and coldness, and entanglements of right and wrong. As the era rolls forward, temptations of fame and fortune, conflicts of interest, and tests of humanity come one after another. The once pure brotherhood gradually fades, twists, and shatters under the weight of reality. Some hold fast to their original aspirations, some lose their way, and some fall halfway. This is the struggle and fate of a generation of small-town youth, and also the most real and cruel panorama of life at the bottom of the underworld in an era. — Description from novelcodex.org