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In 2017, Sun Xiaodi founded Lihe Bookstore in Shenyang with a beautiful imagination for an independent bookstore. Within two months of starting the business, she discovered that everything was different from what she thought. She encountered all kinds of difficulties, the biggest problem being that she couldn't make money. In this book, Sun Xiaodi openly talks about the pain and anger that opening a bookstore brought her. She scolded e-commerce platforms that competed with bookstores for resources, ridiculed all kinds of weird customers who walked into bookstores, and persuaded many people who wanted to open bookstores to stay away from bookstores. People who don't own a bookstore don't know: a bookstore is not a beautiful and innocent paradise, but a mundane business in the world. In the three years since the epidemic, Lihe Bookstore has been in a precarious situation, struggling on the edge of bankruptcy almost every month. It was the support and warmth given by the loyal customers who accompanied Lihe Bookstore all the way that made Sun Xiaodi hesitate several times and still stubbornly opened the bookstore. "There are ten thousand reasons not to open a bookstore, but there is only one that can make me insist on opening a bookstore. There are still many people who like bookstores. They need me and my Lihe Bookstore, so I will accompany them to keep the bookstore open forever."