Peace Loan

27 years old, with a college diploma, weighing 180 jin, and 150,000 yuan in debt.

Zhou Mingyuan’s life had sunk to rock bottom. With nowhere else to turn, he took a loan sales job at Ping An, only to discover it was even more cutthroat than insurance: 200 calls a day, 180 hang-ups, monthly evaluations, and the lowest performer got fired.

He couldn’t suck up to people or take shortcuts. All he could do was awkwardly hand out flyers, make calls, get rejected, then hand out more flyers.

His family nagged him to get married, creditors hounded him for money, his boss pressured him to hit his targets, and life kept grinding him into the dirt.

Six years went by. He didn’t become the top salesperson, make a comeback as a director, or even lose weight.

He just learned one thing: in a world that grinds people down to the point of death, staying alive is already a victory.

This isn’t a story about turning your life around. It’s about an ordinary person giving everything he has just to stay alive.

If life has ever ground you into the dirt, this book is about you.