People's Federation: from Maintenance Worker to Executive

The oxygen in glory stinks. Yang Xiaotian has known about this since he was a child. Just like he knows that his father will not come back, knows that his mother's eyes are blinded by crying, and knows that the phrase "the stars and the sea are calling" is just the most beautiful packaging of a human-eating machine. It took him forty years to climb from glory to the top of the Federation. In the past forty years, he has seen the darkest darkness, made the dirtiest deals, lost the people closest to him, and almost became the kind of person he hates the most. When he finally sat in that position, facing the still-running human-eating machine, he found that he had to answer a question: Does a person who has climbed to the top still qualify as a human being? In other words - if you don't climb to the top, who has the right to turn off this machine?