Love on the Working Journey

[Migrant worker life] [1990s] [realistic emotions] [multiple female leads] [post-70s] [grassroots entrepreneurship] [period novel] [urban village] [garment factory] [bottom-rung underdog rising up]

This book tells the story of Qin Yang, a rural youth born in the 1970s, who works and starts a business through hardship in a southern coastal city.

It is a realistic novel reflecting the lives of a group of people born in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s who went south to work at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of this century.

It offers an in-depth portrayal of the lives, emotions, and aspirations of workers at the bottom of society. It recreates the appearance of urban villages from thirty years ago and records the life experiences and emotions of migrant workers during those difficult years.

It contains inspiring stories that move people to strive upward, as well as scenes that are bitter and heart-wrenching enough to bring readers to tears.