Gu Yan, the top scorer in the provincial college entrance examination, was sent to the dusty five-story building of the Municipal Economic Cooperation Office with a transfer order.
Office 309, a chair, a desk, and a pot of half-dead asparagus. The work badges of the predecessors are still at the bottom of the drawer, but their whereabouts have long since disappeared: some were transferred to the county, some took the initiative to retire, some were sent to the archives and remained silent, and one - disappeared directly, and the destination column is still blank.
