★ Douban’s 2025 Picture Book & Manga of the Year, Top 10 on the 2025 LESS New Era Publishing Award Self-Care List, with a Douban (China’s Goodreads) rating of 8.8.
★ A heartwarming coming‑of‑age manga by popular illustrator and comic artist Li Ningjing, ten years in the making—using comics to chronicle the journey of growing up. Turns out, we’ve all had such similar experiences!

A heartwarming coming-of-age comic by the popular illustrator and manga artist Li Ningjing, ten years in the making—now finally published. Let’s step into a time machine and borrow a little courage from our past selves.
Over twenty years, through the memories of three cities, unfold 51 ordinary yet luminous everyday stories.
The princess dress of childhood, aimless summer vacations, endless roads, and a hometown that feels ever more distant… Every tale in this collection is drawn from the real-life journey of a girl named “Xiao Li.” Open it, and it’s as if you’ve boarded a time machine, catching sight of yesterday’s you. It turns out we share so many similar memories; it turns out those small, fleeting moments, those feelings we might easily forget, are precisely what deserve to be preserved.

Li Ningjing
A post‑95 illustrator and comic artist, a graduate of the Academy of Arts & Design at Tsinghua University.
She enjoys capturing the changing seasons, seemingly insignificant little moments, and everyday landscapes. She began her commercial work in 2014, collaborating with numerous renowned brands both at home and abroad, and has published her illustrations or run regular columns in publications such as City Magazine, Sanlian Life Week • Youth, and Comic World • Heart‑Drawing.