Dexter is imprisoned for a bank robbery. In the strictly hierarchical "underworld" of prison life, he naturally becomes one of the "nobles" who control the situation.
As he researches his situation and plans his escape, Dexter discovers that his imprisonment, and even his entire life, are part of a vast experiment called the "Iron Bars Project."
He is no ordinary prisoner, but a memory-transplanted clone designated DW-07, the only living subject among countless experimental specimens painstakingly created by a financial conglomerate.
The prison is a laboratory, the prisoners and guards are actors, and everything exists to observe him: a perfect subject whose memories have been "reset," and his behavior under extreme pressure.
Behind the experiment lies a conspiracy between a multinational conglomerate and an ancient being sleeping beneath the earth, whose consciousness is mathematics: the "Gaia Consciousness."
The conglomerate wants to use Dexter Lee as a "key" to summon the Gaia Consciousness and "optimize" human civilization, which in reality means formatting it.
Dexter goes from experimental subject to the variable that will determine the survival of human civilization.
After a painful reckoning, the independently minded Dexter decides to tear up the financial conglomerate's bloodstained ledger and escape prison. With his own hands, he will build a new world in the United States, planting seeds of hope in the hearts of the Indigenous people, letting them take root and grow, and changing the way America is governed.
The journey will be long and perilous. But Dexter chooses to act swiftly: he decides to blow up the vault of gold the Nazis hid beneath the sea during World War II, then empty the Federal Reserve's vaults to secure the first funds for founding a nation.
"Aristocrats Behind Bars" breaks out of the clichéd counterattack routine and uses the ups and downs of a down-and-out aristocrat's life behind bars and exile in the desert to outline the arc of a character who was born in a prison but has a noble spirit. The author Ali Langgong uses the strong images of the desolate Gobi and rusted iron fences to tear apart the heavy barriers of class and destiny. The protagonist who used to be in the upper class fell into the dust, and lost his glitz in the harsh hardships of survival. Instead of complaining about others, he settled his mind in the dilemma, and used knowledge and resilience to find a way out of the desperate situation. On the one hand, the book depicts the cruel reality of prisons and deserts, and on the other hand, it depicts the various conditions of struggling living beings at the bottom; on the other hand, it adheres to the bottom line of spiritual aristocracy and defends education and ideals in the mud. The text is thick and realistic, and the story progresses layer by layer. It uses the ups and downs of one person to ask what true nobility is: fine clothes and fine food cannot create the character of a noble. Only the souls who are trapped behind bars and remain unbroken in desperate situations are worthy of the name of nobility. The whole book has both realistic depth and humanistic warmth, making people think deeply about the choices of fate and personality.