I'm Not a Workaholic!

**The Soul Ferryman**

**Only after seeing all the lights of the human world do you understand why you set out**

After an accident, Li Fan returns to his student days and gains the ability to hover, drift, and intervene. Every night, his soul floats through a different window, witnessing the real lives he had misunderstood for half his life:

Each story is a slice of reality, laying bare educational anxiety, entrenched class barriers, and the pain of a troubled family. With delicate prose, the author portrays the hardships and triumphs of growing up in China. The figures who stubbornly grow in the dark will ultimately come together to form a spiritual spectrum that illuminates the age. **When the soul begins to gaze into the abyss, redemption quietly arrives.**

▎In the brightly lit study of a top student

He sees a diagnosis of depression hidden beneath a wall of awards

▎Inside the tin shack of a student who works to get by

The kerosene lamp illuminates more than a workbook: it also reveals the blood seeping into the thread as his mother stitches shoe soles

▎In the mansion of a rich second-generation heir

Beside the latest game console lies a birthday card his father began writing ten years ago and never finished

**This is not a story about superpowers**

It is the redemptive journey of a lost soul

When Li Fan floats past the window of the seventh home

He finally sees what his father has secretly kept:

The test papers he had crumpled up

Each one has been pressed flat and marked, “My son is amazing”

**Recommended by the author**

✓ Uses magical realism to unpack educational anxiety

✓ Seven family portraits reveal the truth about growing up in China