This is a personal biography about farewell and growth. The protagonist Bi Fu starts from an accidental drowning in childhood and traces the trajectory of self-formation in the fragments of memory. His separation from his best friend Liang Chen, his obsession with being rejected when he was a boy, his silent perseverance as a "monitor who was least like a monitor" in his youth, and the difficult choices he made when he was on the verge of collapse on his entrepreneurial journey, all together constitute the main line of his life. This book does not have a grand success narrative, but rather describes in detail how an ordinary person learns to be calm, stick to the bottom line, and finally reconcile with the past and move towards a wider world through repeated losses and farewells.
Intent: Real growth is a long reconciliation with "loss" and "farewell". It does not come from constant gains, but from experiencing misunderstandings, separations and setbacks, learning to precipitate inner grievances and obsessions into calm strength and the courage to stick to the bottom line. Ultimately, we define ourselves not by holding on to the past, but by letting go of the past and moving toward a broader future.