Those Years Working at the Factory

[Period Setting + Factory Life + Everyday Life + Coming of Age]

Some people’s youth belongs to the school campus. Others devote theirs to the factory. Even those who dropped out early to work in factories had a youth of their own that they can never get back, filled with romantic love, sincere friendships, and more...

The ending of the story isn’t important. What matters is that youth is priceless, and memories linger. When the wind blows, that’s me thinking of you...

I wrote this book to dedicate it to the generation of people born in the 1980s who went to work in factories at an early age. Every generation has its own feelings, its own unique and beautiful memories of love.

There is love and hate, joy and sorrow, grudges and tangled relationships, even falling out, turning against one another, and being abandoned by everyone.

In the years spent working away from home, people grew up and witnessed both goodness and beauty, as well as human nature.

It takes only one misunderstanding to go from strangers to friends and back to strangers.

From lovers to breaking up, going our separate ways, and letting it go: fate brings us together, then leaves us with nothing.

Looking back, those youthful, innocent days are gone. Looking back, it all seems like a dream. Looking back, everything has changed, and there’s nothing left to be done. Looking back, all we can say is that impermanence is part of everyday life...