She Draws

What you think is light may be just another wall. She spent six years proving that there are some roads that you have to draw yourself. Xu Zhiyan has been the creative director for six years, but underneath the glamorous exterior is endless oppression and plagiarism from his boss. She was repeatedly told: "If you leave the company, you will be nothing." Her parents were puzzled and her colleagues were silent. She was like a flying insect trapped in a glass bottle, able to see the light but unable to find an exit. She didn't know that the person she thought she could rely on was hidden deeper than anyone else. But she still has a paintbrush. She used the fragmented time late at night and early morning to draw secretly, from the balcony of the rental house to the Bologna Illustration Exhibition, from no one to 230,000 fans. This time, what she wants to get back is not only her work, but also her crushed self-esteem. The real counterattack is not to trample others down, but to plant yourself back into the soil and wait for it to grow into a new shape. Her story is about: how a woman who was locked up in a cubicle raised herself again.