Diary of Studying Abroad

18-Year-old Lin Ye flew from Hainan to Canada with his father's expectations and a one-way ticket. He thought that studying abroad was a gold-plated shortcut, but he encountered a heavy blow from reality after landing - a desolate "ghost place", flight attendants who discriminated against Chinese, the terrifying moments of propeller planes, the "extinct teacher" in the language school, and the moldy "cave" in the host family. But the real storm started in college: the shame of failing an accounting class, the viciousness of being racially profiled while working in a movie theater, the library at 2 a. M. And the late nights of addiction to painkillers. He was like a trapped animal, struggling to survive in the cracks of a foreign country, until a sales competition made him famous. From "the expelled coffee shop rookie" to "the best-selling theater in North America", from "the bottom of the language class" to "the graduate of a prestigious school", Lin Ye spent ten years tearing apart the cocoon of destiny. When he put on his academic uniform, he realized that studying abroad was not the end, but the beginning of reconciliation with himself. Those who laughed at him, defeated him, and despised him eventually became the wind under his wings.