The Dream Chaser

Name: The Dream Chaser
ISBN: 9787530684658

骆烨Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · ChinaJul 2026

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Word count: 95K words
Chapters: 37
ISBN: 9787530684658

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Summary

Dream Chasers is a full-length novel of contemporary realism and the first major work to portray the struggles of young Chinese internet entrepreneurs. While still in university, Ye Xihu began selling clothes through an online shop and made short videos with Yu Hang, became an internet sensation, and emerged as one of China's first generation of web celebrities. After graduation she started her own business and earned a substantial income. Yu Hang, after setbacks in the job market, happened into a film and television company, was assigned to a production crew, met people of every stripe, and began learning to write scripts, eventually becoming a screenwriter. Just as Ye Xihu's online shop was thriving, she overstocked and took a loss; with no other option, she went to work at a cosmetics company. A year later, still true to her original dream, she came to Hangzhou's Dream Town to start again, applying internet sales thinking to sell Chinese cosmetics brands in international markets. Ye Xihu and Yu Hang strive together in Hangzhou, sharing a dream of shining a little light in the city and guiding the young people who come after them.

Editor's review

Dream Chasers turns its lens on ordinary young people caught up in the wave of internet entrepreneurship. Ye Xihu goes from a campus online shop and short-video fame to an inventory crisis, then returns to Dream Town to sell domestic cosmetics abroad; Yu Hang goes from job-hunting setbacks to learning the ropes on film sets and becoming a screenwriter. The two threads interweave to show a generation finding its place in the city. The book's strength is that it does not shy away from the failures and turns of entrepreneurship, grounding traffic, inventory, and reinvention in the characters' daily lives so that struggle is more than a slogan. The prose is plain and the plot moves with a lived-in texture, suited to reading in segments on a commute or before bed, and equally a window onto the early ecosystem of Chinese internet business and young people's career choices. Watch for the choices the two protagonists make at their low points; that is the most concrete footnote to the title's idea of chasing dreams.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers of fiction about internet entrepreneurship and young people's struggles
Young people job-hunting or starting businesses who want a realistic reference point
Readers interested in business forms such as short video, online shops, and domestic brands going global
Readers who enjoy dual narrative lines and a plain, lifelike texture

Not a good fit for

Readers who prefer plot-driven suspense or fantasy
Readers seeking a practical how-to book on entrepreneurship
Readers with little interest in contemporary urban youth themes

Reading tips

Trace the key turning points along Ye Xihu's and Yu Hang's separate lines, then compare the choices each makes after setbacks.
Pause at turns such as the inventory loss, the job change, and the second startup, and consider whether the characters' motives hold up.
Take reading notes alongside your own or others' job-hunting and startup experiences to deepen engagement with the real-world issues.

About the publisher

Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House China · Founded in 1958

Founded in August 1958 and restructured into Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. in 2009, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House is known for publishing essays and fiction, and it hosts the journals Fiction Monthly and Essays. Its 757 titles in the library span classic works, culture, folk literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, foreign literature, and general biography. They include Lao She's Camel Xiangzi, Zhu Ziqing's selected essays and Classic Essays, Fu Lei's Twenty Lectures on Masterpieces of World Art, and a Chinese translation of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Rashōmon, as well as cultural and performing-arts titles such as the illustrated Biography of Liang Qichao and A Dictionary of Crosstalk. Its authors include Lao She, Zhu Ziqing, Wu Qichang, Fu Lei, Xue Baokun, Gao Yucong, Wei Zhiqiang, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

版权信息
序章每个人都有回忆
第一章前男友的婚礼
第二章梦想小镇里的同学会
第三章我和我的祖国
第四章大学毕业我们就恋爱
第五章叶西湖成了网络红人
第六章找工作才是最迷茫时
第七章再见了，舟山东路
第八章毕业前的小插曲
第九章爱情来得就像暴风雨
第十章我养你啊
第十一章在四季青奔跑的女孩
第十二章初涉影视圈
第十三章做电商遇到瓶颈期
第十四章影视行业如雨后春笋
第十五章谁来和我聊梦想
第十六章假男友
第十七章新年都是好的开始
第十八章骆家庄
第十九章成为编剧不容易
第二十章春风沉醉的沈富阳
第二十一章我是“横漂”
第二十二章冷战及和解
第二十三章坚持梦想，接受现实
第二十四章销售员背后的辛酸史
第二十五章绝处逢生
第二十六章绝地反击
第二十七章影视行业的鼎盛期
第二十八章谈婚论嫁时
第二十九章年轻人不宜太露锋芒
第三十章影视人的瓶颈期
第三十一章见父母
第三十二章艰难的抉择
第三十三章再创业
第三十四章分手不可能再做朋友
第三十五章梦醒时分

FAQ

What story does this book mainly tell?

It follows two young people, Ye Xihu and Yu Hang, making their way in the internet wave: one goes from a campus online shop and short-video fame through a loss to starting over and selling domestic cosmetics internationally; the other, after job-hunting setbacks, joins a film and television company and learns to become a screenwriter on set. The two support each other in Hangzhou, each seeking their own light.

Can I understand it without startup experience?

Yes. The novel moves through characters' experiences and everyday choices; episodes involving online shops, short video, inventory, and reinvention are grounded in concrete scenes and do not depend on technical jargon. Following the characters is enough to grasp the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and to see the common predicament of ordinary young people establishing themselves in the city.

Is it suitable for students?

It suits university students and young people about to enter society. The book presents the process from campus experimentation to starting a business in the world, and from job-hunting setbacks to repositioning, offering a realistic reference. But because it deals with business operations, it is best read thoughtfully and not treated as an operating manual.

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About the author

骆烨 Author

Luo Ye is a writer about whom little public information is currently available. One work by this author is included in the collection: the social novel The Dream Chaser. Since basic details such as nationality, dates of birth and death, education, and writing career have not been reliably documented, only the existing work can be briefly described here. The Dream Chaser is classified as a social novel, a genre that typically takes contemporary society as its backdrop and focuses on how ordinary people live, choose, and feel amid social change, using individual fates to reflect social realities. In this sense, Luo Ye's writing appears to lean toward realistic themes, approaching the pursuit of dreams through personal experience and revealing the tension between ideals and reality. Beyond The Dream Chaser, no further confirmed works are currently known, and a fuller assessment of the author's output and stylistic development must await additional material.