In 1990, on the eve of the end of the unified recruitment system for college and technical secondary school graduates, Wang Daguang, a poor college student, returned to his hometown with a cadre dispatch certificate, struggling to survive between the grassroots system bound by human ties and the turbulent market economy. The full text reproduces Wang Daguang's growth trajectory, integrating the era scenery of the 1990s, local clan conflicts, officialdom factional games, realistic choices in marriage and love, and the crisis of self-employed business. This is the hot life of a generation struggling to survive in the torrent of human relationships and times. This is a realistic article about the grassroots struggle in the 1990s.
