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The novel fictionalizes a county-level city called Guhua. There is a very large factory in North China in the county. It spent a lot of money to build a production line, but the product was substandard. What to do? There are more than a dozen characters in the book: municipal party committee secretary, mayor, factory director, reporter, writer, etc. They have their own perspectives and attitudes towards a series of things that happened. The author shows their beauty, ugliness, good and evil, and shows the tragedies and comedies of their life and death.

This book uses delicate writing to outline a rotating and dizzying era, a period of life and death, and a poignant and beautiful love. How a college student who caught up with the trend of the times started out as a commune secretary, climbed up to the position of deputy governor step by step, and then fell from the peak of power under an invisible giant net; the mental journey of a young intellectual who guided the country and inspired literature from hard work and publicity to confusion and transformation; a lead In his twilight years, a faded political figure reflects deeply on the four beautiful women in his life, as well as love and hate, friendship and enmity, gain and loss, destruction and life; a knot that is intertwined with emotion and reason, righteousness and evil, law and power but cannot be untied... This is another masterpiece released by the young writer Jin Yuanping after "The Gate of Life and Death".

The work takes the county power structure as the background, and through the power changes of three county (city) party secretaries, it shows the violent tremors of individual destiny in the process of restructuring social relations. The book focuses on describing the multiple tests of friendship, love, and family affection in the field of power, and reveals the alienation process of human nature in the political ecology.

This is a newly emerging city at the bend of the Yellow River. Except for a few sleepy lamps far and near, the night here is quiet, and the gentle sound of the Yellow River can be heard. In this short but precious quiet night, the sharp bell rang suddenly and lasted for a long time, like lightning flashing across the dark night sky, which made people's hearts beat with fear. Glancing at his wife who was sleeping beside him, Tuo Shiyuan was stunned, letting the ringing ring over and over again, hesitating and not knowing what to do. Because of things between men and women, his wife is currently in a cold war with him. Over more than ten years, Chen Lifen has transformed from a goddess Athena into a full-fledged egg-protecting hen. In the darkness, a thin arm was still tightly wrapped around his neck, reminding him of a loyal shepherd dog...