Thank You for Your Hard Work, You in Taipei

——Dedicated to you who persevere in the city. She dragged her suitcase out of Taipei Station, thinking she had found the end of her dream. Unexpectedly, the real end point is to learn to reconcile with yourself. Xin He set off from a small southern town and boarded the train heading north, eager to be seen by the city. From the yearning fledgling, to the anxious top student, to the empty performer, to the collapsed fugitive - fifteen chapters, five volumes of life, we witness how she got lost in the jungle of Taipei, and how she learned to stop. In a taxi late at night, she collapsed completely when the driver said "Thank you"; in the solitude of the Beitou Hot Spring Hotel, she finally allowed herself to be nothing. When she no longer chased the lights of the city, Taipei embraced her in another way. In her old house in Dadaocheng, she planted a seed of "slowness", shared her morning soy milk with her lover, and embraced all her past selves. This is not a success story. This is a letter to all urban walkers - dedicated to those who wander in a foreign land, collapse alone in the middle of the night, but still choose to go out the next day.