Embers Towards the Light

This is a story of ordinary people's stumbling youth growth. It is also a true narrative of an ordinary boy who sticks to his heart and believes in gentleness amidst the ups and downs and shortcomings of life. The protagonist, Xiang Chenyang, is the most ordinary young man in the world. He has no outstanding achievements, no outstanding talents and abilities. His qualifications are mediocre and unremarkable, and he is inconspicuous among the crowd. He grew up in a remote village at the junction of two towns. His family seemed to be stable and peaceful, but inside, he was deeply depressed and rifted all year round. His father was silent and hardworking, relying on hard work to support the family all his life, and was repeatedly challenged by his livelihood; his mother was impetuous, greedy for fun, and often played cards all night long. The accumulated quarrels, cold wars, and family deadlocks caused depression and uneasiness throughout his childhood, allowing him with mediocre qualifications to early glimpse the cruelty of life and the helplessness of the adult world. Since he was young, setbacks and hardships have never been far away from him. A simple act of kindness when he was young made him unnecessarily involved in a classmate loan scandal. He was burdened with inexplicable right and wrong, and suffered the disappointment of his family and the criticism of others. The family's livelihood suffered setbacks one after another, and his father spent all his savings to open a shop and take risks to build a house. Eventually, the business failed and the family's fortune was emptied, and his life completely fell from stability to embarrassment. The difficult family situation, the warmth and warmth of the people around him, and the invisible secular prejudices weighed on the young man's shoulders again and again. On the road to youth, he had to face campus turmoil, malicious prying, and separation. The regret of the sudden death of his best friend became a scar in his heart that could not be healed for a long time. During the long years of growing up, Xiang Chenyang has experienced three unforgettable relationships. Every time, he rushed forward with all his sincerity and courage, fully expecting to stay together purely, but in the end, he was shattered one by one by his ignorance of youth, estrangement from reality, and mismatched fate. All three loves ended with regret, leaving only the disappointment of not being able to love and the regret that he was holding on to. Life has never been gentle to him. Malice, embarrassment, separation and frustration piled up on top of each other, dragging him into confusion and troughs several times. He is an ordinary ordinary person. He has no talent and no excellent future. There are no shortcuts and halo in life, only bumps and bumps along the way. Even though half his life was full of ups and downs and shortcomings, and he experienced family difficulties, worldly prejudice, separation and death, and three failed loves, Xiang Chenyang has never been softened by suffering and has never let his temper soften. He has seen through the complexities of human relationships and experienced the bitterness of life, but he still retains his kindness and compassion for others in the world. He does not blame fate or lose his true heart, and always longs for sincere, clean, and two-way love. In a messy life, an ordinary life, and a long night that no one understands, he sticks to his sincerity alone and waits for his own dawn. Intention: Even if it is ordinary, we should wholeheartedly expect and be kind to the good.