About the Book
This is not a failure story written after success returned.
Bankrupt Life records the process of examining more than a decade of choices while the outcome was still unknown.
Contents
Prologue | Customer Service Said: No Extension
Chapter 1 | One Yuan, Six Arcade Tokens
Chapter 2 | The Wrong Order Has a Price
Chapter 3 | 2,800 Yuan
Chapter 4 | The Company Paid Me to See the World
Chapter 5 | Turning Complexity into Something Workable
Chapter 6 | From a 6,000 Yuan Base Salary to 60,000 Yuan Commission
Chapter 7 | While I Was Making Money, I Chose Another Road
Chapter 8 | During the National Day Holiday, I Saw a Business
Chapter 9 | That Breakfast Lasted Four Years
Chapter 10 | When Daily Business Began to Be Measured in Hundreds of Millions
Chapter 11 | The Same Business, Thinner and Thinner
Chapter 12 | Still Looking Like I Was Moving Forward
Chapter 13 | It Wasn't a Lack of Work. It Was a Lack of Stable Cash Flow
Chapter 14 | Debt Entered the Calendar
Chapter 15 | Bankruptcy Did Not Happen in a Day
Chapter 16 | Re-examine, Not Restart
Chapter 17 | After August 29, Qilin and I Began Looking for Answers
Epilogue | September 13: The Answer Has Not Happened Yet
Author
Leon has worked across advertising, public relations, finance, entrepreneurship and business services. At 38, while the problems were still unresolved, he began reconstructing his past with an AI collaborator called Qilin.
AI Collaboration
Qilin assisted with material organization, timeline checking, version comparison, structural editing, repetition checking and language refinement. Private facts remain subject to the author's confirmation and verifiable source material.