"The Tinnitus" is an original realistic novel with 5 million words. It abandons clichés such as revenge and binary opposition. It uses the valuation of state-owned assets and the wave of financialization as the background to focus on the transformation of Lin Shen, a member of the system, and the dilemma of the times.
Lin Shen, a 28-year-old employee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Jiangzhou, may seem ordinary, but he has a special talent - he can experience tinnitus and numbness in his fingertips when faced with abnormal figures, and he can accurately detect loopholes in accounts. He had nothing to do with revenge, but because he could not tolerate numerical errors, he was involved in the 370 million valuation difference incident of the Red Star Factory plot, and thus entered a complex chess game intertwined with state-owned assets, finance and power.
The novel revolves around three waves of asset revaluation in land, finance, and technology. It depicts three-dimensional characters such as the idealistic bureaucrat Zheng Zheng, the pragmatic female entrepreneur Tian Yu, and the mysterious retired cadre Lao Huo. There is no absolute good or evil, but they are all ordinary people struggling in the system. Lin Shen went from being passively driven by numbers, to actively playing games with numbers, to reflecting on the cost of rules, and finally learned to retain the warmth of humanity amidst rationality.
The work breaks out of the framework of confrontation between good and evil, focusing on core issues such as "digital definition rights", "leverage risks" and "algorithm ethics", exposing institutional loopholes and the grayscale of human nature, and presenting the deep-seated contradictions in China's economic transformation period. It is a realist masterpiece about truth, choice and human nature.
