After Liu Shuning, an international student studying in the United States, studied at the University of Nevada for a year, his newlywed wife Lin Bei came from Nanjing to Las Vegas to reunite with him. They started a new life in this bustling city with great expectations, but they faced huge survival and mental pressure. In a realistic style, the novel records the survival, struggle and final destruction of Chinese students in the United States. It calmly and delicately shows the real life of Chinese students and new immigrants in Las Vegas, and reveals the social background and reasons that caused the tragedy.