Root Down

Lin Qiu, a 35-year-old Internet executive, lost his career, health and family balance overnight. Unemployment, separation, and his father's illness threw him into the cold late autumn of his life. From being forced to do gardening jobs in community parks to joining a design studio that was "not doing his job", he learned to touch the soil with his hands and listen to the market with his ears. When the business algorithm failed, he used a fallen leaf, a vegetable patch and a scarred apple to recalibrate the value scale of life. This is a story about falling, taking root and rebirth - in the autumn of life, rewriting the algorithm for yourself, turning the disordered season into the most abundant destination.