The texture of wood is the scars carved by time, and the texture of people's hearts is the way home written by decisions.
Oriental woodwork brand "Nianshan" has been involved in a cross-border capital siege that swept local cultural and creative brands.
Overseas capital has set up a dark network, blocked raw materials, framed public opinion, blocked channels, and forced capital to purchase. Layers of barriers have pushed "Nianshan" into a desperate situation. When she was surrounded by enemies, the mysterious Yao Wang suddenly entered the game with a plan to break the situation, becoming the only variable in her desperate situation.
The two are allies and rivals in gaming. Testing each other, checking and balancing each other, swirling in the undercurrent of the circle of fame and fortune, and pulling at the boundary between human nature and interests. Yao Wang carries a secret, walks between light and darkness, and is obsessed with overturning the dark network of capital; Chen Nian loses his gentleness and uses the heart of a craftsman as a blade to maintain the warmth and bottom line of craftsmanship in the cold business rules.
This is not a quick counterattack, but a long confrontation about persistence and compromise, sinking and redemption. Capital tries to straighten out all the lines, but it can never tame the true nature of wood and the character of human beings.
After experiencing the overturning of the chess game and the game of people's hearts, Chen Nian finally understood: The toughest texture in the world is never perfect and regular, but is the original intention that still refuses to bend after going through wind, rain and scars.
Purpose: Using tree rings and wood texture as core metaphors throughout the book, it explores how, in an era of disorderly expansion of globalized capital, individuals maintain their spiritual integrity amidst the pressure of rules and conflicting interests, and how traditional culture resists commercial plunder while retaining its independent value. The final point is that scars and wrinkles are the truest and most complete inner texture of life.