Shen Yaoqi's life began with a "pension insurance" contract.
Family love can be weighed heavily, but the future must be clearly priced.
Growing up in repression and calculation, he had already learned to use silence as a shield, converting grievances into capital for survival.
Until one evening, he met Li Ao.
The man didn't say "You're so pitiful" to him, he just handed him a ruler:
"Measure your suffering and figure out what it is worth. Then, take what you deserve."
From then on, there was an extra secret base in his world, and there was an extra person who taught him to solve problems and sort out the messy life.
Li Ao was his refuge, his mentor, and the only clear source of light in his chaotic youth.
Later, the light went far away.
Holding on to the rationality and determination left by Li Ao, Shen Yaoqi walked alone to an unfamiliar city, into a hypocritical family, a battlefield of competition, and the document cursor that lit up alone late at night.
He wrote "The Distance" in his compositions and created a world in his online articles. In every choice, he clearly heard the echo of what Li Ao once taught him.
And the people in the distance are looking at the smiling face on the phone that is getting brighter and stranger.
The road he paved with his own hands is leading the young man to a wider world.
The relief is real, and so is the loss.
It turns out that the most difficult moment in raising a young eagle is not teaching it to fly, but watching it flutter its wings and leave your hands without looking back.
——We were each other's salvation, but later became each other's selfishness.
