Please Call Me Dionysus

Di Yi, born in 1996, is a high school physics teacher who is sensitive but slow, lazy but occasionally explosive. In the cracks of reality, he crowned himself the "Bacchus" Dionysus. He is obsessed with popular science and philosophical short videos, uses alcohol to dilute the confusion of youth and the responsibility of education, and resists a stylized life in self-deprecation and carnival. He longs for love but is afraid of it, and regards the "kitsch" in intimate relationships and the uncontrollable future as an abyss. In Talluo High School, a testing ground for modern education, he and several young teachers with very different personalities experienced the tragedies and comedies of work and life - from alcohol dependence while living on campus, to impulsive resistance in playground confrontations; from the powerlessness in the face of students with psychological problems, to the absurdity of witnessing conflicts among colleagues. And among all the hustle and bustle, Taixisi, the sober English teacher holding a red wine glass, gradually became the only clear focus in his drunken and hazy world. Two souls who have the same doubts about the institution of marriage gradually get closer to each other in the battlefield of education and the trivialities of life to overcome the unspeakable loneliness. This is a novel about the spiritual illustration of the post-youth era. It uses humor and sadness to describe the swings and choices of a generation of young people between ideals and reality, independence and loneliness, sobriety and intoxication. In the end, can Di Yi find the courage to truly embrace life beyond the illusion of the self-proclaimed "Bacchus"?