A realistic elegy dedicated to "returnees" and "young people from big factories".
There is no suspended Mary Sue plot here, only solid workplace games: from the cold rules of the H-1B visa to the elimination of skills in the AI Coding era; from the floor-to-ceiling windows of Seattle high-end apartments to the lights of Shenzhen Bay at three in the morning. The novel restores the portrait of a group of white-collar workers who stand at the forefront of the times but are always facing decline. When there is only the last afterglow left in the "Golden Dream", and when all external identities are stripped away, can they still find in each other's eyes the selves that originally redeemed each other in the "underground mine"?
Concept: This is not a simple clutch story, it is a truth about how to redefine success in a collapsing world.