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In 2011, in Fushun, Liaoning, 17-year-old hairdresser Zhan Xu first met Su Minghui at a KTV. He walked in the snow for her, rummaged through trash cans to find her school uniform, and spent everything he had in exchange for a grand love. However, in 2015, trainee nurse Su Minghui entered the Central Hospital and gradually got lost in the privileged circle of colleagues. She disliked Zhan Xu as "just a shaved head." On September 3, 2016, on the bank of Fushun River, a shouting and decisive breakup of "only twenty-three years old" plunged Zhanxu into the abyss. He had flowers tattooed all over his back and collapsed in a rental house with stomach bleeding. It was the photographer Chen Yao who had been watching him silently in the corner for many years. She recorded his embarrassment with her camera and spent the rest of her life catching his fall. From an ant sleeping in an ATM room to an upstart in the mobile phone wholesale industry; from the regret of losing a loved one to the warmth of returning home to start a business. Zhan Xu spent fourteen years struggling to rise from the dust. And Chen Yao has also grown from the timid girl who secretly photographed his side face at KTV to a light standing side by side with him. When the successful Zhan Xu passed by the corner of the community again and caught a glimpse of the figure that looked exactly like Su Minghui, the echo of that year by the river rang in his ears, but there was no more excitement in his heart. After half a lifetime of wind and snow, I finally found peace and warmth. This is a story about loss and redemption, about "the joy comes after all hardships". The world is worth it, as long as you survive that dark night when no one cares about you.

This book tells a complete life spanning fifteen years, from dust to Yaoguang. Zhan Xu, a seventeen-year-old boy who ranks first in the hairdressing technical school, is a high-spirited young man. In 2012, he fell in love with Su Minghui and spent everything he had, running back and forth at four in the morning. However, on September 3, 2016, she was wrapped up in material things and was thrown away like garbage. Zhan Xu was heartbroken and carried a load of flowers on his back in ten hours at a time. The pain was not felt in his body and mind. He suffered from gastric bleeding due to excessive drinking and overeating, but it was Chen Yao who pulled him back from the abyss. During his years of drifting to the north, Zhan Xu was extremely stubborn, sleeping in ATM machines, eating cold steamed buns, and pricking his fingers, still working hard to practice hard. After finding the original Green Water Ghost and returning it, he was brought into the industry with the approval of his second brother. He counterattacked from the bottom to become an upstart, and finally stayed with Chen Yao, who had been waiting for him for many years. In 2020, his grandma was critically ill, and he was like a broken rubber band. If it weren't for the support of Chen Yao and his second brother, he would have collapsed. After the funeral, he gave up the prosperity of Beijing and returned to his hometown to start a company. He was holding back a fierce drive to prove himself - to let the person who abandoned him see clearly what kind of person she had abandoned. He gained 8.5% Of the market share in two years, took on his apprentice Xiao Kai, and brought Xiao Kai and Su Wan together. In the spring of 2026, after Zhan Xu finished talking about the ups and downs of fourteen years, Chen Yao handed over the pregnancy test stick. After half a lifetime of dust, the dust and the rising sun will eventually meet the Yaoguang. After all the hardships, happiness comes.