Yang Zheng slept very lightly, he woke up at six o'clock in the morning, and four or five hours of sleep was less, but for people of his age, it was the norm.

This week, he didn't have classes, and the week's rest made him suddenly feel a little uncomfortable.

Today is Thursday, and it is also a weekday, although it is only six o'clock, there are gradually more pedestrians outside the window.

Pedestrians are like ants, they keep their heads down, some look at their phones, some look at the ground, but few are willing to look up at the sky.

Obviously, the scenery above their heads was beautiful, more beautiful than the ones in their hands and on the ground, and there were the rising sun, white clouds, and flying birds.

But why don't they want to look up?

Yang Zheng looked at them, and his shadow seemed to gradually overlap with them.

I used to be like an ant, busy all day long, and I don't know what I live for.

Is it for duty? Is it for life? Or is it for that ethereal dream?

It seems that the busier I am, the more these things are drifting away from me.

He also thought that the chess teacher was the perfect life he had been striving for, but yesterday's continuous frustration also made him unable to distinguish what the life he wanted to pursue at this time.

In an instant, Yang Zheng closed the window.

The feeling of hopelessness and powerlessness also made him sigh deeply.

……

With the global economy in decline, it's getting harder and harder to find jobs right now.

Thirty years old is in the prime of life, but in the eyes of many companies, he is already old.

If you want to find a suitable job, in this society today, it is even more difficult than climbing to the sky.

But even if it is more difficult than ascending to the sky, there are many people who are unwilling to succumb to life, and they are still trying to live.

Dongdong's father, since his daughter became famous, he could have given up his current job and relied on his daughter to earn money.

But he didn't, but worked harder.

His colleague, behind his back, called him stupid.

His boss, looking at Dongdong's father, who was still working hard, had more praise in his eyes.

Although Dongdong is now a well-known chess Internet celebrity, their family's life does not seem to have changed a lot because she became an Internet celebrity.

Although Dongdong's monthly income is even higher than his father's salary and bonus for two or three years, all this money has been saved by his father and is ready to be used for her to go to college.

She doesn't seem to understand her father very well, because now she can skip college and earn money directly without thinking about college.

But when she told her father about this idea, her father, who had never been angry with her, actually reprimanded her for the first time.

She also thought that this was just her father's fuss, and maybe her father was also like what many short videos say - the existence of children is just to make up for the regrets of their parents.

But when she saw the tears that her father shed after reprimanding, she suddenly seemed to understand something.

She still remembered what her father said to her, and that sentence she will never forget for the rest of her life.

"Chess is your way out."

"But reading is your way out."

"Because reading books can help you understand what you're playing chess for."

"When you are depressed, when you are sad, when you are slumped because of a chess loss, reading books can make you understand the true meaning of winning and losing!"