Life, such a simple word, is the keyword for my 2025 NetEase Cloud Music.

Looking back on this year, I truly returned to the origin of life. Although there were setbacks in my studies and career, I never had to ask for what I couldn't get, just like my consistently fortunate life; and what I gained was like my Eudemonia for over ten years: the happiness derived from active and rational living.

In a happy life, I ended twenty-two years of hard study, moved to a city by the sea, and made good new friends in the new city; I rock climb twice a week without fail, conquering two V5s with bananas; I started my small dining table, cooking meal after meal, scheduled my vaccines, bought insurance, started orthodontics, and reinvented myself: I seem to have become the adult I envied as a child, knowing I can fully rely on myself.

In a bustling life, I departed from China and traveled to Vietnam, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore—six countries in total, passing through 23 places: I graduated in Beijing, transitioned in Hangzhou, and enjoyed the breeze in Da Nang; I delivered my first kitten in Yiwu, attended my first friend's wedding in Nanchang, and made Shenzhen my first residence outside Beijing, Shanghai, and Yiwu; I traveled on business to Hong Kong, San Francisco, Denver, Shanghai, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, and Singapore—the same bright moon and twinkling stars shone over the Pacific and the Middle Eastern deserts; I also wandered through Fuzhou, Jingdezhen, Mogan Mountain, Qiandao Lake, Wuyishan, Suzhou, Wenzhou, Taizhou, and Sanya: people always want to live somewhere others have grown tired of, and what makes me feel happy is that it seems like friends are waiting for me wherever I go.

Most of the time, I am used to living alone, occasionally falling into a web of melancholy and sentimentality, perhaps just like what Schoolgirl byebye sang in "Her Solo Life": "What is happiness? It is embracing a little loneliness." Unfortunately, I still care about what I have lost; my heart is no longer perfect, but I still stand resolutely on the path I chose.

Finally, I want to thank everyone who appeared in the photos of 2025 (and those who didn't, who let my chessboard of freedom and life play against each other, bravely confronting the confusion of life): I am not afraid to become a partner or a rival in life.