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"He", who comes from a poor family and has a handsome appearance, is a bright and promising young man in the family. Fortunately, he was sponsored by his uncle to come to Shanghai and study at St. John's University where rich families gather. But soon, his uncle's salt bureau was closed down, and he fell into trouble after losing his source of income. His female classmate Ai MoLi favors him and invites him to live in the garden house of his cousin Tom, but he has a soft spot for Tom's wife Jue'er because of a small white portrait... The novel uses Li Shangyin's seven-rhythm "Jin Se" as the axis, narrating the mental journey of a frail scholar in the great era, showing the protagonist's fate of drifting with the tide in the world, ups and downs throughout his life, and using it to penetrate into the complex spiritual world of intellectuals. Fan Qian was born in Shanghai in 1953. Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute, artist and writer. He has published novels "The Wrong Knock on Heaven's Door", "Antique Street", "Peach", "Wind and Wind", "Insomniac Club", "White House Blue Bottle", short story collections "San Francisco Kiss", "Hell", etc.