Better Days (2019) on Netflix
Chen Nian is preparing for China's college entrance exam when a classmate's suicide makes her the target of school bullies. She asks Xiao Bei, a teenage thug, for protection.
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Chen Nian is a high school student in China with one thing on her mind: the gaokao, the two-day national college entrance exam that decides where she can study. After a classmate, Hu Xiaodie, kills herself, Wei Lai and her friends turn on Chen Nian, attacking her and spreading stories about her family. When Chen Nian sees teenage thug Liu Beishan, known as Xiao Bei, being beaten by rivals, she tries to call the police and is caught in the fight herself. Detectives look into Hu Xiaodie's death, and the school suspends Wei Lai and her friends. Chen Nian turns to Xiao Bei for protection while she prepares for the exam, and he walks her to and from school.
