A Mother’s Wish, Fulfilled with My Entire Life is an epic tale of rising against the odds, dedicated to those who strive.
On a sweltering summer day in the Hunan countryside in 1992, her father’s opposition nearly ended her education. But her mother pulled out a few crumpled, sweat-stained bills and bet her daughter Zijing’s future on the chance to study.
With the quilt her mother had sewn, made from a hundred families’ scraps, she went on to high school and university, winning first-class scholarships year after year. After heading south to Shenzhen, she fought her way through the pressures of work and survival, earning a customs declaration certificate and a master’s degree. She transformed from an assembly-line worker into an international logistics expert. With no connections, no capital, and no experience, she broke into a state-owned enterprise, eventually reaching the top of her industry. At the height of her career, she turned to entrepreneurship and steered her company into Shenzhen’s top 100 despite the headwinds of the pandemic and trade wars. Further studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, academic research in Germany, Hong Kong’s Quality Migrant Admission Scheme... Wherever she went, she left a trail of stars.
This is no fictional legend, but a moving relay between two generations of women. She spent half her life striving to fulfill her mother’s wish that education could change one’s fate. The medals of entrepreneurship were her answer to the light shining in her daughter’s eyes. And through thirty years of hard work, she proved how knowledge can help an ordinary life flourish.
Someone, somewhere, is blooming among the thorns. Why shouldn’t it be you?
This book is for everyone who has felt lost in the dead of night, yet still believes in perseverance.
The road to the top is never crowded, because those who press on will meet again at the summit.
Dedicated to every soul that believes knowledge shines:
Your perseverance will bring beautiful things, and your dreams deserve to be seen by the world.
