Synopsis
Jiang Ning is told to drop out at fourteen and go work in a factory. She has other ideas. Looking at the crayfish crawling through the field ditches, she picks up a cage and makes her first business decision. Getting back into school leads her to the city's most competitive exam, where she elbows past every expectation and lands in a school locked in fierce local rivalry with its neighbor. The top scorer from that rival school — tall, handsome, used to winning — finds himself consistently outranked by the quiet girl who barely made the admissions cut. Years later,…














