In the mainstream narrative surrounding education and personal growth, “stress” seems to be the default backdrop—as if falling behind by even a single step will lead to falling further and further behind. Yet we often forget that the core driving force behind learning has never been external pressure, but rather a person’s curiosity and dedication to knowledge itself.

On the evening she received the official results, Hu Manlin’s heart, which had been in suspense for so long, finally settled—she had been successfully admitted to the Sino-Foreign Joint Program in Art Studies at The Central Academy of Drama.

On the day the test scores were released, Li Jinyuan and her family were standing outside a print shop, preparing for the next steps in her college application process.

In high school, students' time is often clearly divided into distinct blocks.

If one were to sum up Kang Ruoxi’s three years of middle school at Qingxiang in a single word, the description her teacher gave her at the graduation ceremony would be: “relaxed and pleasant.”