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Jiaqian's 42 heart-warming stories were written after interviewing nearly a thousand people and exchanging dreams with more than 500 people. Each story opens a window for people to see sunshine, tears, or themselves. These stories can be the spice of life or can be kept on your pillow for a whole year. I hope she will be like an old friend who comes to you when you are at your most lost or at your best.

"I'm Going to Iceland Tomorrow" records the people the author met in Iceland and their stories - the female seafarers on the large ship with a 100-year history of shipping, the bus driver who wanted to go to the Shaolin Temple in China, the Icelandic policeman returning home from the night shift, the first beggar in Iceland... And the author's personal experiences - the first hitchhiking experience, living with two cats in a small town near the Arctic Circle, traveling with French doctors... Each story is a unique life.

We only live once, the only chance, so I must live where I like and become the version of myself I like best. A person, a plane ticket, and a suitcase can reach many distant places, but he may not be able to live sincerely. For me, I'm not traveling, I'm living. I've never been brave, I just don't have the ability to live a life I don't want to live. I know very well that I always screw up at things that I don't feel happy or interested in. So, I have to be happy, I have to get what I really want, I have to live where I like, I can't do anything else. I am still young and still have illusions about the world.

"Exchanging Dreams" truly records the lives and dreams of one hundred Chinese young people. Ordinary people with different professions and identities, including obstetricians and gynecologists, radio announcers, Hong Kong drifters, entrepreneurs from rural areas, Beichuan post-disaster reconstructionists, frontier soldiers, cancer patients, idol group managers, power plant workers, supermodel makeup artists, university professors, former college entrance examination top scorers... There must be your story in the book, and everyone can find their own shadow.