“Getting even” is becoming increasingly popular as life gets more stressful. Here are some of the stories.

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For most graduating students, the college-admission season, usually in July and August, is a nervous time that is often described as a life-changing moment.

An anxious 18-year-old Peng Lanxi got his admission letter from Hunan University of Science and Technology on July 26, bringing his dream closer-making prosthetic limbs (假肢) more advanced and accessible to people like him. His mother Wang Chunmei couldn’t hold back her tears because she knew how her son had overcome the difficulties.

Peng Lanxi lost his legs in a car accident in 2005, when he was a baby. Having learned to walk using just his hands, he enjoys life as much as the teenagers around him. On his wheelchair, he plays basketball and badminton. Once a week, he goes for a 40-minute swim, and his best time for 100 meters is one minute and 15 seconds.

“I believe that obstacles (障碍) are there to be conquered. Someone says that life is like a mirror, and we get the best results when we smile at it,” Peng Lanxi says.

His story has gone viral (在网上快速传播的) on social media platform Sina Weibo, which has been viewed more than 19 million times and he won admiration from its users for his courage, determination and hard work. A user named Shuangpi comments that Peng lost his legs, but he doesn’t let that get in his way.

The official account of Hunan University of Science and Technology on the platform has even commented, “Welcome Peng to the university.” Lu Ming says that the school will help Peng to pursue his dream—to be a prosthetics engineer, a career that will change lives. Peng is not alone, as authorities have improved the presence of disabled people on mainstream campuses in recent years. 14,559 students facing physical challenges entered college last year. From 2016 to 2020, about 57,500 special needs students were admitted into universities, a more than 50 percent increase compared with the 2011-2015 period.

A Mexican teacher has been honoured after a video showed her calming pupils as a gun battle raged (肆虐) outside her school.

Martha Rivera Alanis was presented with a certificate (证书) on Monday to recognise her bravery in ordering her class of five- and six-year-olds to lie on the floor of their classroom, before attempting to calm them by leading a chorus (合唱) of a song from television show Barney & Friends.

Rivera Alanis filmed some of the scenes from inside the classroom in Monterrey — the sound of gunfire can be clearly heard — and posted the resulting video on Twitter. It was picked up and quickly spread around the Internet, with the 33-year-old teacher earning the admiration of many.

“Of course, I was afraid, but my kids got me through it,” Rivera Alanis said.

The video shows Rivera Alanis’s 15 young pupils lying face down on the floor. “No, my love, nothing is going to happen, just put your little face on the floor,” Rivera Alanis is heard telling one worried girl, before loud bursts of gunfire can be heard.

In the video, Rivera Alanis attempts to distract the children by leading them in a song from Barney & Friends. “If the rain drops were chocolate, I would love to be there, opening my mouth to taste them,” the class sang as they lay on the floor.

“My only thought was to take their minds off that noise,” Rivera Alanis said. “So I thought of that song.”

Rivera Alanis’s school and those in several Mexican cities hit by drug violence have held emergency drills (应急演练) in the past to instruct teachers and students what to do in case of gunfire. Drug-related violence is said to have killed more than 35,000 people in Mexico over the past four years.

“We do drills constantly, because the area where we are is a high-risk zone,” Rivera Alanis said, adding that the children “behaved in the way we had practiced”.