One evening in July, 17-year-old Xie Tao loitered alone on the streets of Wuhan until nightfall and still refused to go home. It was the day when the high school entrance exam results were announced, and his dream of being admitted to a key high school had been shattered. Reality brought Xie Tao a great sense of disappointment. More frightening than this disappointment was a contract he had signed with his father before the exam. What exactly was this contract? And why did this piece of paper push the relationship between father and son to the brink?