01 How to Stand up to a Relationship That Ends in Failure / 1
02 Academic Failure, Confession of Love, Feeling Lost,
and Others / 5
03 We Are Not What We Were / 11
04 Confession of Love, Complaint about Life, Public
Speeches, Personalities, Roommates, and Others / 20
05 Get One Thing Well Done during the Winter Vacation / 25
06 University Life, Resume , Long-distance Relationship,
and Others / 33
07 On Life and Death / 38
08 Unshown Talents, Relationships, and Others / 47
09 Honestly, You Do Not Know Much about Journey
to the West / 51
10 Studying, Confessing Love, Feeling Lost, Top Students,
and Others / 64
11 Looking Forward to the One, and Only Blessing / 68
12 Parents Fighting, Ex-girlfriend, and Others / 75
13 Choosing between Seeking Jobs and Pursuing
Graduate Study / 80
14 Rejection, Part-time Job, the Meaning of University
Life, and Others / 88
15 You Don’t Have to Please Everyone / 92
16 Kissing a Stranger, Heyi Hotel Incident, Slanders,
Graduate School Entrance Examination, and Others / 100
17 Believe in the Bright Side of This World / 106
18 Kobe Bryant, Urban Inspectors, Heather, Optional
Courses, and Others / 115
19 Why Did I Join the Communist Party of China / 119
20 Cute Guys, Women with Doctoral Degrees, Starting
Businesses, Brokenhearted, and Others / 132
21 Why Should Everyone Cheer for You / 138
22 Song Joongki, Roommates, Discrimination against
Northern Jiangsu, and Others / 148
23 On Trust and Doubt / 152
24 Break-up, Study, Conflicts, and Others / 157
25 On Wei and Jin Dynasties / 161
26 Life in the Eyes of Chuang Tzu / 166
27 WeChat Moments, Being Cornered, Boring Classes,
Boy-Girl Friendship, and Others / 171
28 Attitudes towards Life in Zen Buddhism / 176
29 Jealousy, Internet Browsing Records, Gay, and Others / 183
30 On Love / 188
31 On English Tonight / 194
32 On Taiwan / 204
33 To Tell You a Story about a Woman / 214
34 On Phoenix Men and Peacock Women / 221
35 On Student Advisors / 233
36 About the Graduate School Entrance
Examination / 240
37 On Being Single / 249
38 The Pork Intestines in Life and Personality / 258
39 My View on Campus Life / 262
40 Desire, Standfast, and “Not Disturbed by a Woman
on One’s Lap” / 266
41 Confession of Love, Education Background,
Independence, Parents, and Others / 270
Appendix
Bits of Thought I / 275
Bits of Thought II / 277
Bits of Thought III / 280
Bits of Thought IV / 283
Bits of Thought V / 287
Bits of Thought VI / 291
Afterword / 293