A snowfall in 2023 jolts Jiang Cheng awake as if from a dream. When he opens his eyes again, he is back in the winter of 2004, exactly thirty days after his father's death. Everything is playing out all over again. Li Ping arrives with a group of people and promises him a job in urban management, but with twenty years of experience navigating officialdom, Jiang Cheng detects something else in his words...
His father's death may not have been an ordinary public order incident.
