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This is a novel describing the important spiritual world of contemporary Chinese young intellectuals. The author strives to create a model of contemporary Chinese young intellectuals. The protagonist Zhang Jianwen is a child of a poor and ordinary peasant family, but he is an aspiring literary youth, a new Chinese youth with modern ideas, but he is also a child who follows the rules, a traditional Chinese deeply influenced by traditional ideas. His modern ideas always bow to the environment in which he grew up. He has always been oppressed by his environment. He is twenty-nine years old this year. He met a nice girl on a blind date. He had no intention of getting in touch with her because he still had an important writing job to do. However, due to most external pressures, he had to agree to continue to get to know her and date her. After that, he was deeply involved in this matter and could not get away. He was forced into marriage; he ran away from home resolutely. But two days later he went home again; his father's old illness relapsed, and it was so serious - in fact, this was just a plan set by his unwilling parents. He faced a situation: if he chose to comply with his parents' wishes, it might mean betraying his beliefs and destroying his writing. If he chose to stick to his beliefs and writing, it might cause his father to get sick and die. He finally realized that the biggest problem for him was that of being a Chinese. He finally walked out of his home. He seems to be out of touch with his time, focusing only on his beliefs and writing; he is undoubtedly the image of a new man. Through him, the author predicts the ideological and spiritual development of the Chinese people in the future.