Providing scientific evidence to establish the reality of climate change, developing targeted therapies to combat cancer, renewing our understanding of the history and literature of the Tang and Song dynasties, and increasing our knowledge of the nature of law, these remarkable achievements of the 2018 Tang Prize recipients have earned universal recognition and applause. Nonetheless, none of these successes came overnight. Conducting in-depth interviews with each laureate, veteran journalist Yu-fang Liang then chronicled their decades-long endeavor in this biography, narrating the moving stories about how they refused to give up and how they persevered until crucial breakthroughs were made. Life is like a marathon race. It takes unshakable faith and persistence to reach and cross that finishing line, as demonstrated by the 2018 Tang Prize winners.