Ants

Ants to the Sky tells the story of Chen Ye, a young man from a small town who spent twenty years on his bloody journey from a leaky adobe house to the top of a financial building. This young man who was soaked by the heavy rain broke into the city with a blood-stained admission notice, but his dignity was shattered by the wave of layoffs from major factories during the graduation season. When he exhausted his dignity and squeezed into the siege of the system, his mother's uremia diagnosis shredded all stability. From a civil servant to a smuggling ship escort, from a pawn shop thug to an antique black market broker, he walked on the legal tightrope in a gray area until a maritime transaction on a typhoon night, and the inscriptions on the bronzes in the cargo hold pierced his last moral bottom line... When he returned to the village twenty years later to build the Hope Primary School, on the merit monument washed away by the heavy rain in front of the ancestral hall, he insisted on engraving the names of all the people he had let down. This is not a counterattack story, but a record of the survival of an ant repeatedly crushed and reborn under the gears of the times. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.