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Book title: "Journey of Life" Name is Destiny: The protagonist's name is "Lv Wanli", which means "a journey of thousands of miles" and is his father's expectation for him to have a smooth life and fly far away. However, as fate would have it, he was repeatedly torn between "leaving" and "returning" throughout his life. After traveling thousands of miles, he finally found that the most difficult way back was the way home. Time and space span: The story begins in the northern industrial town on the eve of the reform and opening up in 1978, and ends with a return home in the 2020s. A panoramic view of the great changes in Chinese society over the past forty years, from tube towers to flat floors, from food stamps to mobile payment, from the iron rice bowl to the Internet wave. Core conflict: The game between personal ideals and family responsibilities. Lu Wanli has been trying to get rid of the shadow of his father and the shackles of his hometown all his life, longing to fly to the distance like his name, but every major turning point in his life ruthlessly pushes him back to the starting point. Narrative tone: deep, realistic, and full of fatalism. It starts with a closed-loop structure of "life and death", uses flashback techniques to open up the curtain of memories, and touches people's hearts through details in the atmosphere of plain fireworks.