"Order is an environment that allows individuals to make daily decisions without the need to constantly calculate risks."
1938, Vienna. The eve of the Anschluss.
Sixteen-year-old Gwenrich Weiser stood at the door of the newspaper office, clutching a manuscript criticizing the old system and supporting the new order. She had no idea where this manuscript would push her—she just knew she needed to survive.
Her father was a soldier who committed suicide, and her mother was beaten to death by her stepfather. She slept on a stone slab in a bridge cave and used a mark as a spacer on a three-legged table.
But she had hands, a mouth, and a brain that never stopped calculating.
From setting up a street stall to foreign exchange arbitrage, from pretending to be a tutor to an underground customization business - it took her two months to go from a penniless fugitive to an invisible businessman with thousands of marks in hand.
But what she didn't know was that the order for oak leaf copper buttons put her in the sight of a lieutenant colonel in the Propaganda Department.
What she didn't even know was that the man in the house she hid in - No. 22 Beethoven Square - was named Klaus. Same surname as that lieutenant colonel.
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"Giving is the act of an individual surrendering some of his or her autonomy to a larger system. Its legitimacy depends on whether the system reciprocates this surrender in a predictable way."
The day the Propaganda Department hired her, she thought she was safe for the time being.
But the first task she was sent out was to persuade a man to modify the financial model report he submitted - to change the conclusion to something acceptable to the system.
The man was lying on the blood-stained bed, dying, but he was still using up his last strength for a suggestion that was destined to not be adopted.
His name was Friedrich Kraus. Retired Captain. Mathematical genius. Miss Claus's adoptive father.
He asked her: "Why did you help me?"
She thought for a while and said, "Because Miss Claus picked up a branch for me. She said she picked the most beautiful one. I still keep it."
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She didn't want to be like her father - crushed by the system and left with a note that said "I just want to die."
She wants to live. Live well. Live for everyone who steps on Colonel Wither.
But she didn't know that when she started wiping the blood of a dying man, when she burned the handkerchief in front of a three-year-old child, when she returned to stand opposite the oak tree for a minute and then turned away - she was already doing something more complicated than "living".
She learned how the system worked and then chose to use it to protect those who didn't deserve to be crushed.
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Reading Tips
· Heroine: Gwenrich Weiser / Machiavellian / Smooth but upright / Nonpartisan
· Male protagonist: Friedrich Kraus / Retired Army Captain / Mathematics Genius / The person who drags his body to write diagnostic reports for the system
· The official match has been decided. But love is not her first goal—survival is.
· The background of this article is cold and restrained, without spilling blood. The heroine relies on her brain to survive, not on golden fingers.
Intent: In an era when the system devours individuals, how can a person who refuses to be swallowed use the language of the system to protect himself, and ultimately use it to protect another person.
Reader comments
I really think such children can be taught.
The heroine's baby is tricked by someone
In fact, it is often when she is weak that we can remember that she is just a little girl. But it's also when she's able to sidestep weakness that we realize she's more than just a little girl.
Because of Shenma, it became RMB here.
Take a good look at it [eat melon] [eat melon] [let me be healthy] [let me be well]
In fact, the image of the heroine here is very clear, but I still have a question. What is the heroine's view of good and evil? She will avoid the plight of some people in order to make money, but she will also be angry because of the injustice of the macro system (perhaps this is not the right word.) So for her, is it more important to exchange the interests of the few for the longer-term interests of the many? Isn't this a bit contradictory? (Somewhat similar to the trolley problem.)
However, it would also be very delicious if the heroine was set as a character similar to Ying Zheng who is a bit gray for the sake of grand ambition and hegemony!
A very good beginning, with an undercurrent surging
I really think such children can be taught.
The heroine's baby is tricked by someone
In fact, it is often when she is weak that we can remember that she is just a little girl. But it's also when she's able to sidestep weakness that we realize she's more than just a little girl.
Because of Shenma, it became RMB here.
Take a good look at it [eat melon] [eat melon] [let me be healthy] [let me be well]
In fact, the image of the heroine here is very clear, but I still have a question. What is the heroine's view of good and evil? She will avoid the plight of some people in order to make money, but she will also be angry because of the injustice of the macro system (perhaps this is not the right word.) So for her, is it more important to exchange the interests of the few for the longer-term interests of the many? Isn't this a bit contradictory? (Somewhat similar to the trolley problem.) However, it would also be very delicious if the heroine was set as a character similar to Ying Zheng who is a bit gray for the sake of grand ambition and hegemony!
A very good beginning, with an undercurrent surging