People who knew me are slowly forgetting me.

"It is in a life of decline that life reveals itself."
"My world is wherever my feet can tread."
 
One day in 2014, forty-year-old Zhou Hui suddenly felt weary.
　
Having worked on assembly lines and eventually making her way into corporate management, she decided to quit her job, leave the city, and move to "Dongbei Village" on the city's outskirts to live alone. For ten years, she neither worked a job nor pursued a career, living on the bare minimum.
 
During her time in Dongbei, she picked up long-forgotten books from her shelf, started exercising, adopted cats, and rediscovered her love for writing.
 
She wrote about the boredom of mountain life and the inner struggle with "doing nothing"; she wrote about her mother and sisters, piecing together various female life stories from her memories; she wrote about secrets, and about secrets that could not be written.
 
After Zhou Hui, artists, poets, and designers gradually arrived, and Shenzhen's Dongbei Village became an artistic community. In a rapidly functioning social machine, people in the village cared for each other, resisting the high-pressure society with a low-impact lifestyle.
 
In 2024, Zhou Hui's first new book, "Those Who Knew Me Slowly Forgot Me," was released in simplified Chinese. Curated by poet Huang Canran, it became a bestseller.
 
In 2025, FAYDI Publishing will release the traditional Chinese edition, including several new pieces, and featuring a special recommendation by Japanese-Chinese writer Yoshii Shinobu. It also received "unforgettable recommendations" from writers such as Li Jiaying, Yan Shuxia, Zhou Fenling, Bo Sen, Hong Aizhu, Jiang Yani, Han Lizhu, Yan Ne, and Gong Wanhui!
 
Zhou Hui's frank and unadorned language will become an alternative landscape in the world of Chinese prose.