Chen Yan always believed that if you could just endure long enough, you’d eventually make it through.
Then he learned that when poor people keep enduring, they’re the first thing to wear out.
His mother is in the hospital, his younger sister needs money, online lenders are hounding him, and his landlord is blocking the door.
On the very day he runs shortest of cash, a shipment worth 400,000 yuan goes missing from his company.
His boss tells him to sign the papers and take the blame. The client threatens to hold him responsible. Everyone is eager to shove him out front to take the fall.
He has no connections, no backing, and no way out.
Cornered, he can only learn to survive by the rules of this city.
If the rules out in the open won’t keep him alive, then he’ll learn the ones in the shadows.
From an outsourced office lackey to a man who fixes other people’s problems;
from being trampled underfoot to dragging people down one by one.
This is the story of a working-class man fighting to survive, claw his way up, and strike back in a dark city.
A very good, very realistic novel.