The story takes place in Jingzhou, a first-tier city in China - a city with both historical heritage and modern prosperity. It has bluestone roads, ancient bookstores, and century-old teahouses in the old city, as well as skyscraper office buildings, private clubs, and high-end business districts in the new city.
Daily layer: covering the life scenes of ordinary people, such as neighborhoods in old cities, ancient book restoration studios, emergency departments of tertiary hospitals, small studios of independent designers, etc., Emphasizing fireworks, such as the soy milk and fried dough sticks stall in the early morning, the water at the door of the bookstore on a rainy day, and the emergency lights of the hospital late at night.
The elite class: It is not a straightforward "fighting of wealthy families", but a "circle of rules" hidden under daily life - there are several large families in Jingzhou that control the city's core resources (such as medical care, culture, real estate), but they rarely appear in public and mostly operate through "middlemen" and "hidden cooperation". For example, a seemingly ordinary teahouse is a place for information exchange among the circles, and a certain out-of-print ancient book is a "token" for the circles to communicate.
