AN ONGOING AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Born in 1999 in a coal-miner's family in Pingdingshan, China. Left school at seventeen. Failed, owed money, lost love — and kept going. This site is my story, written in code and poetry.
Read the full story (中文)The Short Version
2017
Left school at 17. Over two years worked eight jobs: security guard, welder, miner, mill worker, web novelist, construction worker, cashier, game journalist.
2019
Passed the adult college entrance exam — Computer Science, Henan University of Technology. Studied nights while working days.
2020 — 2021
Interviewed across Shanghai: about twenty companies in two weeks, one meal a day. Then started my career as a Java backend developer.
2022 — 2023
Moved to Kunming, kept coding. A four-year relationship began — the brightest part of those quiet years.
2023 — 2025
A stable job at a state-owned enterprise. The days calmed down; the ambition did not.
2026 Feb
First startup failed. Debt, and the relationship ended. Rock bottom — my parents bailed me out financially; I had to save myself in every other way.
2026 Apr
"I think I have walked out of the dark." Founded Joydove Network Technology (乐鸽网络科技).
2026 Jul
First place + Audience Choice at an AI creativity contest (Luoyang); top 2000 in the national online round in August.
Now
Founder and independent developer. Building free, open-source, client-side tools — because I believe sharing was the original meaning of the internet.