Traveler set to be on top of the world

Zheng Chenying has carved out a career that many of her peers dream of. Since 2018, the now 24-year-old has been to 64 cities at home and abroad and experienced 24 very different lifestyles.

"It was like having different condensed lives, living with locals in their distinctive abodes," says Zheng, who was born in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province.

Zheng, who graduated from Sanda University in 2019 with a major in journalism and communication, has captured those exciting moments of her travels with a camera and strung them into her documentary series One Hundred Lives, which is about to embark on its third season.

Four years ago, while in college, Zheng wondered if she could find a career that allowed her to travel whenever she felt the urge.

Zheng, then 20, envisioned doing every single thing close to her heart, rather than sitting behind a desk as part of a 9-to-5 routine.

This conviction about being true to herself came in Zheng's sophomore year when she got to visit Taipei as an exchange student.

She was drawn to a scene on the campus playground late at night. "A lot of students were there, dancing, singing, skateboarding, playing games in a circle and rehearsing programs," she recalls, adding that she saw it as her peers giving free rein to their individuality after a hard day's work. "A colorful picture of life unfolded in front of me."