The restoration of the Gaokao was a good thing, but it also tore many families apart—all due to those youths sent down to the countryside.
Many of the young people, after spending several years in the rural areas, either couldn't endure the hardship or lost hope for the future and simply married locals.
After the restoration of the Gaokao, these youths all rushed to take the exam.
Many of them, once they passed the exam, abandoned their husbands and children, or wives and children, and returned to the cities to attend university.
Xu Ying felt that anyone who separated because of the Gaokao was never truly in love.
It was only because they couldn't bear the hardships and couldn't return to the city that they humiliatingly married into the countryside, but their hearts still yearned for urban life.
That's why they got divorced as soon as they returned to the city.
