A person who had "played" a standard role within the system for ten years, on the eve of his resignation, accidentally reread "The Catcher in the Rye" and Lu Xun's "Rise to Death", and the long-repressed "self" in his heart suddenly awakened. He decided that in the last month before leaving, he would stop acting and show his true colors. However, he found that when he took off his mask, others regarded him as a bigger "clown".