Life is full of complications and troubles — who could truly understand? For those of us who work in design every day, if only we could exist like layers in Photoshop, how easy life would be. We could wield our handiest tools to sweep away every worry.

Perhaps at work I can resolve my cases with ease. But in life, I’m just an ordinary person. I get scolded, I get on people’s nerves. Many say I’m incompetent. Others say I’m arrogant, that I’m a show-off. When I curse, people say I have no class.

Who among us has no temper? “Visual Tiancheng” is my own domain — only here do I truly belong to myself. I get angry because I have emotions. I get excited because I have feelings. Here, I just want to live a life that is authentically mine. We all come from the internet — even if I talk myself up to the skies, you still wouldn’t know who I am. Even if I reveal my innermost secrets, you wouldn’t know who I’m talking about. This is the only place that reflects the real me.

Every time I see negative comments and harsh words, I’m not angry — I actually find it amusing. When you pass judgment on a photo or a mood based on a single fragment, do you have any idea what happened behind it? As I always say: I’m not a banknote — I can’t make everyone like me. But as long as the friends and family around me in real life recognize who I am, that’s enough for me.

I will make my life more wonderful. All those taunts and insults I’ve endured — I will extinguish them with my happiest life. I can live more joyfully, more brilliantly than you ever imagined.

If my life were one big PSD file, every scene a layer holding a single image, I could process each one to perfection — and rid my life of all its troubles.

Room’s a mess? Hide the layer.

Toast burned? Erase it.

Don’t like the outfit? Change the color.

If only life were really like that — how wonderful it would be.