The novel tells the story of the protagonist Xu Jie's ups and downs from the age of twenty to forty. In his early years, he was a handsome young man and the son of a bureau chief from a wealthy and wealthy family. He enjoyed the care of relatives and friends, the petty bourgeoisie atmosphere and the comfortable material conditions. He watched the "office politics" of his father's generation and witnessed the tragic love affair of his idiosyncratic sister Xu Ming that cost her life. Later, he became a young talent on the university campus. , Talented and squandering his youth, had a tragic love affair that was strangled, witnessed the cruel reality of the death of his grandfather, the collapse of his uncle's company, and the imprisonment of his father for corruption, which led to psychological imbalance; finally, he became a complex middle-aged man who went to a foreign land, struggled to survive, worked hard in the workplace, was ruthless and adhered to the basic moral bottom line. In the end, just like drawing a circle, he returned to his hometown, completed the redemption of his soul amidst the great vicissitudes of life, and gained warm emotions. The ending unravels one of the deepest mysteries that has been presupposed until now.
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