By the time lollipops were sold at 50 cents apiece, Xie Li had come to understand what it truly meant to "not be a boy".
Being the only male heir to the Xie family, before getting injured, his father's earnings were in the control of his grandmother and they all lived on his mother's wages. Under the pressures of life, his mother turned sharp-tongued, no longer the lovely woman she was.
After he was injured, his grandmother, who had insisted on his parents' divorce, suddenly started to treasure him due to his father's death. They began to take him all over the country for treatment and his medication never ceased thereafter.
Not until he lived in a high school dormitory, where lights were turned off and the sixteen boys started discussing forbidden topics, did it dawn on him.
The topics later turned into images that were circulated. Further on, everyone would hide under their quilts to watch videos after lights out.