Let it be, without forcing it;
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ENGLISH EDITION

Let it be,without forcing it;

Memoirs of a Chinese restaurateur in Portugal, read through life’s changes and the I Ching.

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If you can make ‘creation’ as natural as breathing, it is not because intention is absent; it is because all intention has already dissolved into the breath.
Sam Wang
02 · SERIAL READING

Two parts, twelve moments.

A life told through choices, losses and changes rather than a résumé.

CHAPTER I

Necessity brings change.

From arriving in Lisbon to the Madrid expansion, family, and the pandemic.

CHAPTER II

Change opens the way.

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03 · LIFE NOTES

The city passes.
Memory remains.

Photographs and short texts about Lisbon, restaurants, architecture, and the moments that do not fit inside the chapters.

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Parque das Nações at night through an office window
Parque das Nações at night through an office window
18 · 08 · 2026 · Office · Parque das Nações · Sam Wang
LIFE NOTE

Solitude

At night, Parque das Nações wears a veil of calm. Outside the window, the outlines of modern buildings and faint lights cast shifting patches of light and shadow across the glass.

Alone in the office late at night, there is no daytime bustle and no fuss over little things. The whole space is mine. A place to settle down, think through life’s next moves, and let my thoughts wander through logic.

“Being alone is paying the price of loneliness.”

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I CHING READING · Author’s interpretation
Hexagram 24

Fu · Return

Classic text · interpretive translation
In Return, may we see the heart of heaven and earth! — Zhou Yi · Fu, Commentary on the Judgment

Fu allows attention’s return to oneself to be read. Being alone makes room for thought and for repeating familiar explanations; silence provides conditions, while life tests conclusions.

“Paying for solitude” joins choice and cost. Having the office to oneself also reduces other people’s responses; recognising that exchange helps distinguish when to stay alone and when to reconnect.

Reading in briefReturn to yourself, and keep a path back to others.
MUSIC VIDEO CHOSEN FOR THIS STORY

Moonlight in the City · 城里的月光

Mavis Hee · 720p HD

I am alone in the office, still considering the next step. The song lends warmth to solitude: I can be alone and still hold people in mind;

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RESTAURANTS · ARCHITECTURE · HISTORY · I CHING

Half a lifetime
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Hello, I’m Wang Sanxiong — Sam 🤝

The book’s epigraph is my motto, and the starting point for how I understand life, restaurants, and entrepreneurship.

I am a Chinese immigrant living in Portugal, originally from Qingtian, Zhejiang, and a restaurant owner. I love architecture and the history behind it; I love the I Ching, and use Eastern wisdom to interpret the stories hidden behind history.

A battle for small and medium-sized restaurants to reclaim their own customer channels;
The second half of life should be more exciting than the first — that is only reasonable;

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XIAOXIONG®; it is not an advertisement in this book. It is proof that, in the second half of life, I am still willing to change.

FOUNDER OF XIAOXIONGWang Sanxiong · Sam Wang
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