To Live (in traditional Chinese: 活着; in simplified: 活著) is a 1993 novel by Yu Hua. Our nameless narrator meets an old man in the countryside who tells him his life story. This is how it goes. After losing all of his family's land and fortune to gambling debts, Fugui stops being a Rich Bitch Jerkass and begins life as a honest, hardwarking family. Too bad life doesn't let him.