Life is full of hardship, and the Dao of Heaven offers salvation. What truly awakens people is never a lecture, but a brick wall.
It took him 12 years to go from having nothing to building a family and career.
It took him just one day to lose it all and walk away with nothing.
He dropped out of school at 16. His first job led to him being tricked into joining a pyramid scheme. He married at 25 with no house or car, and only 20,000 yuan from his parents for the engagement. At 28, he borrowed money to open a barbershop and become his own boss. During that time, he had two daughters. At 36, he went bankrupt trading stocks, and his marriage fell apart.
He left what little property he had to his ex-wife. To give the children a “complete” home, their relationship changed: he went from being the boss to becoming an employee of his ex-wife. Living frugally on the 3,000 yuan a month his “boss” paid him, he once again set out on the stock-trading path that had ruined his life.
Now he and his ex-wife maintain an absurd yet all-too-real relationship. For the children’s sake, they are parents trying to give them a complete home; for each other’s sake, they have gone from being a normal married couple to “friends with benefits.”
He began reading widely, delving into philosophical questions, and tried publishing his first work on Tomato Novel, The Philosophical World: A Lonely Circle of Friends. However, after it went online, the response was dismal, and it attracted almost no readers.
This is the true struggle of a man at the lowest point in his life. When every hope has turned to nothing, his only weapon is the lessons he learned from hitting the wall.
This is not a triumphant comeback story. It is a diary of life and stock trading, chronicling how a man reflects on himself and keeps reviewing his choices after hitting rock bottom, searching for a way forward in utter desperation.
