Kao Gong

Taking the public examination craze among contemporary youth as an entry point, it uses multi-line narratives to outline a social ukiyo-e intertwined with ideal struggles, class games and institutional dilemmas. The novel focuses on different candidates such as Zheng Yourui, Dai Qing, Zhang Yue, Guo Qing, and Zhu Hao. It uses the "public examination" as a prism to reflect deep social phenomena such as educational equity, grassroots governance, and workplace alienation. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.