This is an urban emotional novel set against the background of the real estate industry. It tells the story of Lu Yichen, a young man from Linhai who rose from the ruins of his family's bankruptcy and counterattacked hand in hand with his childhood sweetheart Lin Tan. In 1999, when Lu Yichen was studying abroad in Boston, he suddenly heard the bad news - his father passed away suddenly, leaving behind a huge debt and a commercial plaza that had been unfinished for five years. At the age of twenty, he was forced to interrupt his studies and return to China to take up the family's mess. After five years of dormancy, Lin Tan, who was supposed to study at the University of Pennsylvania, suddenly appeared on the dusty construction site. She brought an internal planning document and calmly told Lu Yichen: That hot potato will soon become the core of the new district, and its value will triple. She's not here to reminisce, she's here to be a partner. From the rebirth of unfinished buildings to real estate upstarts, from housing renovation projects to industrial transformation, the two people traveled through policy dividends and industry bubbles, and ran into trust and games. Their relationship went through trials, misses and misunderstandings, and finally settled at a grand celebration banquet - but the real test is whether they can still stand side by side when the tide of the times recedes.
Highlights: A true restoration of the turmoil of the "golden decade" of China's real estate; a setting of two childhood sweethearts, equally matched careers and love; a panoramic display of business competition, political and business games, and the ups and downs of the industry; this is a story about inheritance and reconstruction, and also a question about keeping the original intention amidst desire.
Purpose: Keep everything that is truly important.