When the ambitious girl thought she was a top chess player, she didn't know that she was always the most desirable prey in the palm of another giant beast. From the deliberate approach in Cotton Alley, to being kings side by side in the business world, to the farewell of life and death behind bars - he spent his life teaching her planning, and finally used his death to teach her what love is.
Purpose: This is a story about ambition, redemption, conscience and price.
A girl from a lower-class background fought against fate with ambition and stepped into the mud with sobriety. She originally wanted to use the darkness to climb towards the light, but in her step-by-step calculation, she encountered the conscience that was not forgotten deep in the darkness.
A man in the abyss is pushed into the turbid current by fate, walking on the edge of blood and power. He has long been accustomed to loneliness and coldness, but because of an unexpected beam of light, he has the desire to protect and go ashore.
What the novel wants to write about is never a simple love and hate story.
But in the mud, there are still plants and trees facing the sun; deep in the darkness, there are still sparks that have not been extinguished.
It writes about the struggle of people at the bottom to change their fate against the odds, about the tug between desire and bottom line, about how calculations lead to sincerity, and about how two scarred people find redemption in each other.
It tells you:
People can be ambitious, they can refuse to be mediocre, and they can fight for their destiny, but they can never lose their conscience and purity.
True light never steps into darkness.
But knowing that there is a huge abyss, still willing to defend the last inch of innocence for the other party;
Even though they are covered in mud, they try their best to push the other person into the sunshine.
The stars hidden in the old alleys are a little bit of kindness in the darkness, a beam of light in the turbid current, and the redemption of each other completed by two incomplete souls in a lifetime.
