Jia Xiaodao, due to his frequent absenteeism, falling in love, and failing courses during college, eventually led to his almost failing to get a bachelor's degree. Jia Xiaodao saw that all the classmates in the class with backgrounds and relationships had found good jobs and good units in advance, and he was like an ant stepping on a hot pot, and the whole person was completely panicked.

Eager to find a job, he suddenly felt depressed and hopeless. At this time, Wang Ming, a high school classmate, said that he was working in a law firm in A City, Hunan Province, and had a bright future, and promised to help him find a job. At this time, Jia Xiaodao was like a cry for help who fell into deep water, treating Wang Ming as a life-saving grass that he had been looking forward to for a long time, and agreed happily and full of expectations, and then went to Hunan City A with Wang Ming to struggle.

However, the world is unpredictable. The reality is not as Wang Ming described. Instead of going to a law firm, they went to a huge pyramid scheme. When Jia Xiaodao first entered, he couldn't withstand the influence of the environment, and under the "care" and "guidance" of his ace lecturer Xiaojie's sister, he was almost brainwashed, and he almost became a fanatical MLM believer.

But after a period of observation and exploration, Jia Xiaodao felt that the real situation was not as wonderful and brilliant as Xiaojie's sister described, but on the contrary, it seemed more cruel and realistic. After seeing a pyramid scheme victim trying to escape, he was beaten half to death by the backbone of the pyramid scheme and almost crippled. Jia Xiaodao fully realized at this time: he fell into a huge pyramid scheme, and he almost missed his life when he blindly applied for a job.

So, after many confrontations and witty responses with the backbone of the pyramid scheme, Jia Xiaodao finally found an opportunity, escaped from the team, and caught the train home.

On the train back, Jia Xiaodao was opposite a woman about 30 years old. Jia Xiaodao and this woman played cards for entertainment while chatting about their college days. As the two talked, the scenes in the university flashed in front of them. Jia Xiaodao, Lin Feng, Xu Anqi, Dr. He, Lao Yang, Sisi, Wang Hong, Ju Mo, Song Kexi and a group of other people, in college, some fell in love, some gambled, some fought for the student union cadres, some took the risk of cheating for the English test, some scolded their father and mother for their graduation thesis, some betrayed their conscience for the bursary application, some fell out of love collectively for the graduate school entrance examination, and some kept their bachelor's degrees and lowered their voices. Yes, in college, they have pursued, wasted, struggled, stumbled, lost love, and despaired, and their different attitudes towards life determine their different life fates after graduating from college......

After the MLM came out, he communicated with the woman on the train. Jia Xiaodao began to reflect in his heart, he understood that he had been making mistakes all along, and he was confused. He felt some remorse and awakening. Through chatting with women, the youth stories of Jia Xiaodao and a group of people are like paintings displayed in front of readers, and Jia Xiaodao's squandered youth is like a "Qingming Riverside Map", showing a university ecological map to readers in the most original documentary way. Through this ecological map, readers can learn that the real university is not a beautiful peach blossom paradise and a fascinating fairyland, as the high school teacher fooled, but on the contrary, it is a huge utopia island full of unknowns.

After returning to school, Jia Xiaodao invited the leaders and teachers of the department to dinner, apologized deeply to them, and begged them to give him a chance to mend his life and make up for his mistakes in time. After doing all this, Jia Xiaodao held his latest published novel "Chinese-style Youth 1", gently knocked on the door of the editor-in-chief of a well-known media, and began his own job search......