"Hand in hand, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps, looking at the sky,

Look at the stars one, two, three and four connected in a line,

Make wishes silently back to back,

See if you can hear the stars in the distance..."

A young woman in her early twenties, whose face was obviously more weathered than the others, was coming out of the library with a stack of books in her arms and walking towards the girls' dormitory not far away.

While walking along the way, I was humming Jiang Kan's new song for October in a relaxed and happy manner.

On her right hand, a delicate rose tattoo was so eye-catching, but she didn't care about it and allowed some freshmen passing by to point at her.

Arriving at the girls' dormitory, the woman easily carried the large stack of books and walked into the right corridor on the third floor, which is where the freshmen of the School of Economics and Management live. Before she even entered, she heard several girls coming from inside.

A chirping sound.

"Hey, do you know, I just heard rumors that Xiaoting, who lives in our dormitory, was originally a female worker who had worked in the Southern Electronics Factory for several years. She had several boyfriends in the factory but never got married. Later, there was a problem at home.

The men who introduced her to the outside world thought she only had a technical secondary school degree and looked down on her, so she went to school and repeated her studies for two years before she was admitted to our school..."

Xiaoting walked to the door and was humming briskly, with a happy face.

But outside the door, she heard several roommates talking to her behind her back. The smile on her face slowly disappeared, and the "Xingqing" she had been humming on the road also stopped.

The unbearable past that she thought she would forget after going to college resurfaced in her mind again, making her feel a little clogged in her heart.

Yes, she is the Xiaoting who lived in the same dormitory with Xiaoli in the electronics factory in the south.

At first, that little sister didn't know what evil was possessed. Suddenly one day after listening to a song that I recommended to her, she immediately packed up her things, carried the bucket, and left without even looking back.

.

She left the electronics factory forever without notifying her "boyfriend" and without even thinking about getting that month's salary back.

When her little sister told her that she was going home to repeat her studies and prepare to take the college entrance examination, she was completely shocked!

Later, the two occasionally contacted each other once or twice.

When she told her that her re-study was going very smoothly, she was studying very hard, and she was very hopeful that she would be admitted to her favorite school in one year, she just thought she was talking about fantasy!

We are all at the bottom of society who come to work in electronics factories, but you actually still have a dream of going to college?

After that, Xiaoting, who had been living in a muddle every day, following other little sisters like puppets in making screws and assembling equipment every day, laughing and gossiping about celebrity romances or making funny comments after get off work, gradually became calmer and stopped talking. Being crazy and heartless with them.

She wonders every day, is this girl Xiaoli's choice the right one?

At first, she was still curled up in bed at night, not looking at her phone or gossiping, just holding her legs with her hands and staring stupidly at the lower bunk next to her that was empty because Xiaoli left.

But within two days, a new sister came to live there with her suitcase. She turned into a day-to-day electronics factory girl like Xiaoli who just came in. She chatted and gossiped, watched short videos and read novels every day.

, the most uncomfortable thing is that she also smokes and drinks. Most of the small table shared by the two of them is filled with empty wine bottles, cigarette boxes, ashtrays, and cigarette butts that are almost burned to the butt of the cigarette.

She just looked at everything around her in silence.

Watching them going crazy, watching them making trouble, watching them talking about which line another handsome young man came in, who hooked him up again and rented a house to live a small life...

Just like this, she was recalling what Xiaoli had said to herself before she left, while watching with cold eyes the group of little sisters around her squandering their worthless youth wantonly.

Finally, one day a year ago, Xiaoting felt that she couldn't stand it anymore. If she continued to stay in this environment, she would go crazy!

"A good person like me

I should have lived a brilliant life

How come more than twenty years have ended?

Still floating in the sea of ​​people..."

The crazy laughter of the ladies around once again drowned out the singing in the headphones that had been turned up to the maximum volume!

"ah!"

Xiaoting really couldn't stand it anymore. Xiaoli's words and instructions when she left these days, as well as the unenterprising people around her and the noise they made, had completely driven her to an explosion!

She didn't know where she got the courage and determination, so she tore off the in-ear earplugs she had bought for 20 yuan from a roadside stall and slipped out of her ears from the bottom bunk of a flimsy bunk bed.

He jumped up and started desperately stuffing the things on his desk and bed into the suitcase next to the bed as if he was possessed!

Toothpaste and toothbrush, cosmetics, magazines bought when bored, towels, mouthwash cups, clothes, pillow covers and quilt covers...

She tore them all off like crazy and stuffed them into her suitcase as if she was venting her anger.

Those that couldn't be stuffed were put into the bath bucket she placed at the end of the dormitory. After a while, everything was filled to the brim.

"It's over, another one went crazy..."

The dormitory suddenly became silent.

The female workers in the same room who had been frantically beating and playing noisily just now were all silently watching her every move like this.

An eldest sister who was already in her mid-twenties who lived on the bunk above her stopped chewing gum and began to mutter silently.

"Another one left..."

The woman on the upper bunk next to her who had made the craziest noise just now was also looking directly at Xiaoting's movements. Her originally crazy face was surprisingly calm at this time, and she just repeated these words in her mouth...

In less than ten minutes, Xiaoting finished cleaning up.

Her long hair was casually tied up with a rubber band that had been thrown at the head of the bed, forming a high and refreshing ponytail.

She dragged the bulging suitcase with her left hand, and carried the piled red bath bucket with her right hand. She pushed open the half-closed dormitory door with her foot and stepped out in one step.

"Xiaoting, are you...going to leave? Are you coming back?"

Finally, the eldest sister who was sleeping on her upper bunk stopped her.

"Yes, I'm leaving and not coming back."

She turned around with a bright smile on her face. It was a bright smile that the eldest sister had never seen in the past few years of staying here.

"Are you going back... to get married? Or is there a better factory?"

"It's not about getting married, eldest sister. I want to go back to study and repeat studies like Xiaoli. I want to take the college entrance examination. I want to change my life!"

The corners of Xiaoting's mouth were raised high, and her words were so loud.

"..."

Although she was only twenty-four or five years old, she had already become as haggard as a thirty-year-old elder sister due to years of overtime work. She didn't know what to say and just looked at her blankly, just like she did when Xiaoli was about to leave.

He looked at her blankly.

"Okay, sister, I wish you good luck and get your name on the gold list as soon as possible!"

The eldest sister did not get out of bed, but after being stunned for a few seconds, she looked at her from the upper bunk, smiled, and encouraged her.

"Well, thank you, eldest sister. Please take care of yourself and don't work so many extra shifts..."

Xiaoting smiled at her one last time, and then without looking at the other roommates in the room, she gritted her teeth and exerted all her strength, lifted the bucket, pulled the suitcase that was already a little slippery, and left the room with a creaking sound.

, this sound gradually went away along with her heavy footsteps, and gradually disappeared at the end of the corridor.

"..."

Xiaoting's footsteps had disappeared at the end of the corridor in the distance, but the eldest sister's eyes were still staring blankly at the half-open dormitory door, and she didn't make any sound for a long time.

But the other little sisters in the dormitory suddenly started making noise again with a "coaxing" sound!

"Hahaha, she's like that, she still wants to re-study and take the college entrance examination? Let her dream!"

"Even if you don't look at what you are, you really think you are a little swan mixed in with the ducks. Do you think you are an ugly duckling?"

"With her background in technical secondary school, she hasn't touched a book in so many years, and she still wants to re-study and take the college entrance examination? I have never had such an outrageous dream!"

"I just saw how stupid she was. Sometimes she even looked at us impatiently. She felt that we were too noisy and delayed her from pursuing her dream?"

"That's right, look at his disdainful expression at the end. Is he really a bitch? Why are he pretending to be noble when he doesn't even take a piss to show what he looks like? Hmph!"

There was a lot of noise in the dormitory, everyone was mocking Xiaoting for leaving.

Only the eldest sister turned around and lay flat on the bed with a bang. She put her hands under her head and stared blankly at the large gray-black spider web on the ceiling that was very close to her.

I don't know what is going on in my mind at the moment.

…

The numerous memories were instantly pulled back, and Xiaoting shook her head to get those unbearable past out of her mind.

What are the words of my roommates in this university? Compared with the dirty words and ugly words I have heard before, these little behind-the-scenes comments are nothing!

Two years, how did you survive these two years?

How many people are laughing behind their backs at the fact that a technical secondary school student from an electronics factory spent two years to get into college because he wants to eat swan meat?

Or a famous university like Zhejiang University?

You never dreamed of doing this, right?

However, Jiang Kan's song "Destiny" has always been by her side.

Whenever she wants to give up and feels that she really can't continue learning, she will listen to Uncle Kan's new song - "Destiny".

This song inspired her to challenge her destiny that had been destined for a long time. She gritted her teeth and persisted, sleeping only 6 hours a day, giving herself only half a day off a month, and spending the rest of her time studying!
To be continued...