A screen full of 23-year-old literature,

I envy you young ones so much.

23-year-old A Zhao, has long been distant from me.

That was the youthful time in 2018.

In July that year,

A Zhao was still figuring out how to spend the military discharge allowance,

the initial thought was:

"The discharge allowance is enough for me to take the path of further education + graduate school, and I can fail three times."

In October 2018,

A Zhao began the days of budget traveling and job hunting.

After more than three months of wandering,

he found that with a vocational college degree, he couldn't even knock on the door of a real estate company,

A Zhao didn't want to work on an assembly line, be a security guard, or deliver takeout!

So, at the beginning of 2019,

he made up his mind to prepare for the graduate entrance exam.

In February 2019,

A Zhao looked at the various "injustices and discrimination" in the military discharge graduate exam group, and A Zhao understood:

In this world, there is no help in times of need, only adding flowers to the brocade.

Later,

in September 2020, A Zhao arrived in Chengdu,

the plan at that time was to study for a master's degree while preparing for civil service exams.

As a result, seven months after setting the civil service exam plan,

A Zhao began to actively participate in various cryptocurrency meetings in Chengdu,

which ultimately led to him being unable to afford meals during his master's studies.