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This work takes the graduation season as the background and depicts a city's "silent knockout" that quietly unfolds in spring. Outside the campus where cherry blossoms are blooming, thousands of college students go to the workplace with four years of youth carefully compressed into a piece of A4 paper, only to find that what the market cares about is not "what they have learned", but "what they can bring immediately." The halo of academic qualifications and personal efforts frequently failed, and the anxiety finally converged into a question: Am I of any use? The protagonist Lin Zhan, a graduate of the Chinese Department, is the "high-level confused person" in this elimination competition. He can deconstruct literature, but cannot deconstruct the future. The imagination of elites gradually collapses in the face of reality. Just when he was trapped in unemployment and self-doubt, fate did not give him a decent opportunity, but brought an unexpected intruder - his cousin Li Jia from the county town who worked as a hairdresser. Li Jia dragged her pink suitcase into Lin Zhan's small rental house. She doesn't understand resumes and workplace rules, but she has the most direct judgment on life and the tenacity to refuse to admit defeat. Lin Zhan originally thought that he was the giver, the one who "taken in" and helped, but he gradually discovered that what this encounter took in was his broken elite dream and lost self. This is a story about graduation, confusion and mutual rescue, and it is also a redefinition of "value" and "usefulness". The story begins with a "take-in" and eventually leads to self-rescue.

In the early morning of 1984, at a railway station in a provincial capital in the south, the whistle pierced the humid air. Li Mingyang stood on the dilapidated platform, carrying a frayed canvas bag, his eyes burning with longing for the distance. It was the dawn of China's reform and opening up, and the Iron Curtain of the planned economy was beginning to open. Outside was a strange world - desert business opportunities, war-torn adventures, and the undercurrent of the Cold War. The platform is filled with soot, and vendors are constantly selling their goods, but Ming Yang's eyes are fixed on the end of the railway track, and the sun is shining, as if calling. In the 1980s, China was both scarce and full of energy. Factories roar and there are more bicycles than cars on the streets. Li Mingyang, a son of a peasant family, studied hard by kerosene lamp and obtained the first batch of "International Business Master" qualification certificate. This certificate is his key to the world, taking him from the rice fields to the desert and the negotiation table. His first business was to export bicycles to the Middle East, as the country was in urgent need of foreign currency. The business road is difficult and dangerous: Dubai businessmen regard his youth as his weakness; under the shadow of the Cold War in Moscow, wrong words may be fatal; in the flood-stricken areas of South Asia, he learns that wisdom and sincerity are needed to survive. Every step was a big gamble, but he fought hard for his country and himself. "The Adventure Life of an International Businessman" tells the story of Li Mingyang's foreign trade legend, which is also the epitome of that generation - measuring the world with two feet and exchanging foreign exchange for the country. We see the hustle and bustle of the Guangzhou trade fair, the gunfire night in Beirut, and the mother's sigh. The trade route is boundless, a journey of geography and soul, dedicated to the unknown heroes who pave the way for prosperity and you who make every trek.