Lin Wenxuan, a boy from a poor family, had an ideal of helping the world. After being named on the gold medal list, he was sent to Yunshan County, a poor and remote country, because he had no money and power. He soon discovered that the officialdom here was as monolithic, and his boss Zhao Dezhu blatantly asked him for "ice respect" and "charcoal respect". Faced with a setback in his dreams and pressure to survive, Lin Wenxuan was forced to sell off his ancestral property and collect three thousand taels. He used an intermediary to find a way to get promoted and was transferred to the prosperous Jiang'an Mansion. This was the first time he bowed to the unspoken rules, and cracks in his conscience began to appear in the dye vat of power.
"The purchased shackles eventually become life-threatening shackles. This is an official ukiyo-e read while kneeling. Every step of climbing up is oozing with the blood of the people's anointing and conscience."
