Chu Jiangfan is a reporter for a metropolitan newspaper. He has been a teacher, a publicity officer, and finally a reporter for 15 years. He has personally experienced the entire process of the rise, development, prosperity, and decline of metropolitan newspapers. During his 15-year career as a journalist, he was full of journalistic ideals and committed to morality, and he wrote a large number of public opinion supervision reports and positive energy reports. He has faced various temptations, and he has been framed by others, but he finally resisted the temptation and walked out of the haze. Nowadays, in the face of the decline of print media, Chu Jiangfan, like other print media reporters, is faced with confusion about where to go and difficult choices in the media transformation period. In the declining trend of print media, urban print media reporters who are as confused as Chu Jiangfan should choose to persevere or seek transformation? The novel gives various answers.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.