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The Youth of 1972: Under the Fluttering Red Flags

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In the 1972 northern educated youth camp, Lin Xiaoman, a girl from the city, hid in a wheat straw stack reciting words for the college entrance exam—only to be caught by Chen Tieniu, the "troublemaker" who drove the tractor. He teased her publicly but secretly hid her textbooks confiscated by the team leader. When Xiaoman was to be transferred to the toughest foundry workshop for "pursuing elitist academia," Tieniu snatched the order and took her place, his hands burned with blisters from the castings. They went from clashing to quietly falling for each other, but then Xiaoman's mother wrote, urging her back to the city for the exam. Torn between her long-cherished ideal and the boy who risked everything for her, she clutched the letter with red eyes—there’s never a standard answer to youth’s choices.

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