Marie

These few days are the Dragon Boat  Festival — one of our oldest holidays here in China. For most people, it means rice dumplings and dragon boats. For me, it means one more thing. This day is also my older...

My husband,Dapeng and I have known each other for eighteen years. We were classmates in college. In our third year, we fell in love. I was the one who chased him. He was sunny, handsome, and a lot of girls...

Ameng is twelve years younger than me. The first time she came in for the interview, she had a nose stud and long hair in soft curls. She was cool. A cool girl. She's tall, about 170cm, and when she...

It is a Sunday. My child is home with his homework, and I have come to the office by myself. When I sat down, a feeling came over me. All these years, I have been very lucky. The right people...

In the spring of 2022, on a work trip to Zhongshan, I saw that mirror for the first time, in a showroom. It was like a drop of water, caught forever in the instant it splashed. So full of motion...

Lately, I've watched the things we made with care be copied, again and again. Our photos, our videos, the words we wrote — even the way I stand beneath a chandelier — taken, and turned into someone else's. It would...

I want to write about my colleague Jennifer. We've been friends for over ten years. Fresh out of college, we worked at the same company — and later, we became partners, building something together. She is full of energy, every...

Once, all we had was a single photo. A picture a customer had sent — the chandelier she had in her mind. Honestly, it wasn't even a clear image. Just a rough shape. The outline of a dream. I passed...

In October 2025, almost by chance, I walked into a contemporary art museum by West Lake. It wasn't cold, the way I'd expected a museum to be. An old tree grew inside it — a hundred years old, maybe more....