Have you ever had that moment when going to work feels like going to the grave, and you are faced with the trouble of being optimized, looking at the mortgage, car loan and tutoring fees for your children, feeling like your life is stuck in a tunnel with no end in sight?
Zhang Rui is like this. An ordinary middle-aged manager, his life was no different from yours or mine until some Caribbean lottery miracle struck him.
But when the old lottery ticket turned into the title deed to a remote desert island, he made a decision that all tired adults have fantasized about but few dared to make: risk everything for a chance to start over.
This is no fairy tale at all. On the island, there is no water, electricity, or roads, just the scorching sun and endless jungle. What he has to face is a law of nature more cruel than office politics, and a survival pressure more urgent than a mortgage. Storms will destroy everything he has worked hard to build, and the problems of reality never stop knocking on the door.
But the most touching part of the story is here - you see how he turned "survival" into "life" inch by inch. From the first wooden house where you can see the starry sky, to the vegetable garden where neighbors share their harvest; from the open-air classroom built for children, to the community where people sit around the bonfire at night and have real conversations.
Reader comments
The idea is good, I suggest that the early plot advance a little faster, that is to say, let the first batch of guests check in as soon as possible.
The idea is good, I suggest that the early plot advance a little faster, that is to say, let the first batch of guests check in as soon as possible.