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Senior three student Su Xiaotang lives with her mother, a sanitation worker, in an old tenement. Though uneducated, her mother always says, "My Xiaotang will be the top scholar." Even when Xiaotang ranked last in mock exams and neighbors mocked, "Can a sanitation worker's daughter be a top scholar?" her mother still swept streets at 4 a.m. to save for tutoring, stuffed warm buns into her hands, and secretly learned to write "top scholar" to stick on the wall. Xiaotang studied late into the night. On the college entrance exam day, her mother had heatstroke but hid it. When she rushed to the hospital with the provincial science top scholar notice, she saw the infusion mark on her mother's hand and the "Xiaotang, come on" notes saved for three years on the bedside...
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