The story is set against the background of the wave of studying abroad in the 1990s, with two parallel lines running in Kiev and Jiangcheng, Ukraine, connecting three narrative threads: institutional officialdom, local industrial and commercial wars, and the emotional entanglement of two generations of families. The novel focuses on the intimate relationship between adults mixed with interests, favors, and power. It depicts the multiple choices ordinary people face in career, relationship, and family affairs under the tide of the times. It digs into the pull between interests and sincerity in human relationships, explores the boundaries and choices between power, capital, and love, and restores a true and down-to-earth picture of life in the business and political circles.
Concept: All the warmth and bonds in the world are essentially equivalent replacements; love is a variant of desire, and favor is an invisible bargaining chip. After ups and downs, An Ran finally sheds its attachments in countless transactions, uses itself as the bargaining chip and experience as the principal to redeem the right to choose life that was pawned by childhood and fate.