Introduction to "Arcadia"
Gu Zhenbang is a Chinese investor who settled in Arcadia, Los Angeles. Decades ago, he went to the United States alone and built up the private equity and medical industry from scratch. He is passionate about charity donations and is well-known in the Southern California Chinese Chamber of Commerce. A mansion, a career, a seemingly harmonious family, everything a generation of immigrants dreamed of.
Years of traveling across the country have made his marriage increasingly desolate, and he has nowhere to put his spirit. He develops a secret love affair with company employee Zhou Wan. After the relationship between the two broke down, the other party had private images in their hands and worked with an intermediary to pay a sky-high hush fee. Gu Zhenbang was afraid that the scandal would destroy his reputation, career and family for half his life. He once compromised and paid a huge sum of money, but he realized that the blackmail would never end. After several struggles, he collected complete evidence and reported the case to the FBI.
The case entered an open court hearing, and all secrets were made public. The once respected philanthropic entrepreneur has become a hot topic in the circle, his marriage is broken up and his business is in shock. The novel does not deliberately portray good or evil, but uses the elite Chinese circle in Southern California as the background to describe the middle-aged loneliness and human plight of the immigrant group. The glitzy Palm City witnessed a turmoil caused by desire, and finally revealed the truth: all choices that luckily cross the bottom line will have to bear a heavy price for the rest of their lives.
