Introduction to the work "Official Seal on the Ruins"
Catastrophe swept across the land, the once prosperous cities were reduced to ruins, and the old order fell apart.
Xu Yancheng, a grassroots public official who grew up in the new era, took over the heavy administrative seal in the ruins of the apocalypse. This seal with unfaded red paint is no longer just a symbol pressed on documents in the office, but the hope in the eyes of survivors and the yardstick that maintains order in chaos.
What he has to face is looting and fighting due to scarcity of supplies, conspiracies and calculations amid factional strife, and the dilemma between the orders of superiors and the livelihood of the people at the bottom. Some say he is stuck in a rut.
The official seal is dropped and the red seal is rubbed. In this devastated land, Xu Yancheng used his body as a torch and his seal as a certificate to forcibly carve out a way of survival belonging to the system and protecting the survivors in the chaos of the apocalypse.
When the fire of civilization is about to extinguish, can an official seal shoulder the heavy responsibility of rebuilding order?
Reader comments
It does not write the "system" in black and white - superiors have their own considerations, factions have their own struggles for survival, and even Xu Yancheng himself will hesitate between instructions and people's livelihood. That official seal is more like a mirror, reflecting everyone's choice in the apocalypse: some choose to rob, others choose to replace, and only he chose "keep". This non-suspended sense of reality is more solid than many apocalyptic novels.
It does not write the "system" in black and white - superiors have their own considerations, factions have their own struggles for survival, and even Xu Yancheng himself will hesitate between instructions and people's livelihood. That official seal is more like a mirror, reflecting everyone's choice in the apocalypse: some choose to rob, others choose to replace, and only he chose "keep". This non-suspended sense of reality is more solid than many apocalyptic novels.