19-Year-old Chen Ye breaks into Beijing with his old camera. The hot soup of old Zhou from the auto repair shop and the shared house in the urban village allow him to meet the graffiti boy A Zhe, the folk girl Xiao Ya, and his studio lover Lin Xi who has traveled thousands of miles! Four grassroots young people use the lens as a blade to focus on the ordinary glimmers of the city. The smoke from the breakfast stalls, the sweat at the construction site, and the singing in the underground passages have all become their war songs. They single-handedly founded "Wild Lens" and vowed to let ordinary people be seen and keep their dignity in the world!
From street snapshot stalls to self-media with millions of fans, from a glimmering beacon on the front lines of disaster areas to the iron-blooded persistence of a tough monopoly group! Capital sugar-coated bullets? Just tear it into pieces! The temptation of an institutional olive branch? Absolutely refuse! Slander, blockage, serious injuries, shoulder to shoulder in the darkest moments, the price of blood and tears cannot make them let go!
Old poplar wood pendants, niannian paper cameras, star graffiti in the warehouse, countless glimmers of light converge into a sea! Ten years of intense youth, from stubborn teenagers to staying together, from charging alone to traveling with thousands of people! A wedding in a suburban warehouse, a shimmering square in an urban village, a spark passed down from generation to generation! Ordinary but never mediocre, grassroots can also start a prairie fire! This is an ideal journey for ordinary people.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.