Business wars, political intrigue, blood and tears, warmth… From 1983 to 2025, from cramped apartment blocks to skyscrapers: the two lives of an ordinary person, and forty years in the life of a generation of Chinese people.
All the thrills you want are here: face-slapping, comebacks, business battles, revenge.
And so are the things you never expected: the price of the rule of law, the shades of human nature, the tears of an era.
Open this book and return to the days when the smell of coal stoves still lingered.
See how someone who once delivered takeout learned to become the master of his own life.
