Why does the prospect of becoming a parent feel unsettling? Beginning from this apparently personal yet widely resonant question, this research asks whether contemporary young people’s resistance to parenthood stems only from economic pressure, emotional hesitation, and shifting social values, or whether it also reflects a deeper uncertainty toward the identities of both “parent” and “child”. In the Chinese context, the study argues that parent-child relations are often marked by a profound asymmetry: love, indebtedness, and return can never be fully completed within a single lifetime. Parenthood is therefore approached not as a fixed identity, but as a fluid and reversible process of becoming. Through auto-ethnography, archival gathering, simulation, and installation-based practice, the project develops into an installation work that reframes parent-child relations as a fluid intergenerational field and reconsiders the figure of the parent beyond its conventional association with sacrifice, hierarchy, and fixed role obligation.