Six years ago, Ning Jia was in his final year of high school. Although his parents were divorced, his life had still been fairly happy.
At the time, the biggest hurdle in Ning Jia's life was the approaching National College Entrance Exam.
In order to get Ning Jia into a good university, his mother was extremely strict about his studies.
Ning Jia had done well enough. His grades ranked in the upper-middle range at school, and as long as he performed normally, getting into a Project 211 university would not have been a problem.
But during the second semester of his final year, Ning Jia's grades suddenly plummeted due to stress. This gave his mother a sense of crisis, and she began trying every possible way to improve his grades.
That included finding him a cram school.
Later, through a friend's recommendation, Ning Jia's mother enrolled him in a National College Entrance Exam intensive course.
It was such an ordinary, unremarkable decision, yet it plunged Ning Jia into an abyss from which he could never recover.
It turned his already less-than-fortunate life completely miserable.
Ning Jia had always been delicate-looking. When he was little, people often mistook him for a girl. Even his parents used to joke that perhaps they had given birth to a daughter.
Even after he grew up, while no one would mistake Ning Jia for a girl at first glance, he still seemed out of place compared to most boys.
His classmates often jokingly called him "Sis Ning."
Some boys even made suggestive jokes about him.
Although Ning Jia disliked such behavior, those classmates had never done anything too excessive beyond the occasional joke, so he could only try his best to ignore it.
One of the classmates who usually liked making jokes about Ning Jia