In life, people are constantly faced with all sorts of choices.
For instance, when to get up in the morning, what to eat for breakfast, how much work to tackle in the morning, whether or not to have afternoon tea, how late to stay up working at night, how many rounds of a game to play before bedtime, and so on.
Choices are everywhere, infused in every aspect of our lives to the extent that some even define 'the freedom of choice' as the true essence of freedom.
However, for Zheng Qing, in his eighteen years of life, there seems to have been scarce opportunities for choice.
Coming from a family of scholars, the moment he was born into this world, the elders had already planned everything in the foreseeable future for him – when he should start learning, when he should start studying poetry, whose calligraphy to practice with, what time to sleep every day, and so on.
