Ziyi Xie

23 is a 64-page journal-magazine about the decisions, doubts, and small braveries of being twenty-three. Anchored by Living on My Own, it unfolds in self-contained chapters: generational style shifts; “lying flat” & rest shame; marriage pressure then vs now; AI and career anxiety; global peer interviews; the return-home decision; and optional family conversations. It blends reported pieces with diary fragments, photography, and watercolor annotations. Personal narratives sit alongside data and citations—gentle in tone, clear-eyed in method. Not a manual, but a companion for making uncertainty livable—and even beautiful.