Fortune's Favor: The Road to Rise

This is not a novel designed from the outset. This is my real-life record: I, Zhuo Yifan. Some characters and events in this book are drawn from other people's experiences, blended and rewritten to avoid identifying anyone. But much more comes from the years I have lived, the choices I have made, the mistakes I have committed, and the path of a life that kept moving forward after every failure. I was born in 1991. This book begins with my youth, and I plan to write it through 2030 and perhaps beyond. As long as I am alive, it will keep updating, because this book is not about a story, but about time itself: the full journey of an ordinary person struggling, learning from trial and error, and growing in the real world. It does not promise a guide to success, peddle inspirational platitudes, or guarantee a steady stream of thrills. There are foolish decisions, irreparable costs, fleeting triumphs, and long stretches of disappointment; the fervor of starting a business, and the quiet moments after reality has knocked me down again and again. This book may run to ten million words, or even thirty million. Not out of ambition, but because life itself is long and complicated enough. If you want to read a “polished legend,” please look elsewhere. If you want to see how a real person gradually learns to live as themselves in the real world, you can stay.