The alienation and persistence of old friendships in the field of power - taking the local people's congress system as an incision to explore the game between rules and human relations, and the collision between ideals and reality in the grassroots political ecology. Through the evolution of the relationship between Gao Lin and Xiao Ye from the "iron triangle" to the "opposite", the novel reveals the reshaping of human nature by power in official culture, as well as the struggle and choice of individuals under the inertia of the system, and ultimately points to deep thinking about a healthy political ecology. This long novel of officialdom realism combines political game, human anatomy and regional cultural characteristics, and has both plot tension and ideological depth.
