The main character of the novel, Chunyu Baotse, runs a large corporation called Lijin, which deals with everything from maritime trade transportation to large projects of mergers and acquisitions of entire villages and the modernization of their territories. At the same time, he is tormented by internal contradictions, the resolution of which requires a successful combination of circumstances and a clear understanding by the hero himself of his desires and true aspirations. Will the chairman of the board of directors of the Lijin company be able to make a choice between his business ambitions, implicated in manipulation and subtle fraud, and a deep sense of justice, which is based on the suffering he experienced in his youth and understanding the needs of the people around him, recognition of their human dignity? The author does not give a definite answer to this question and invites the reader to figure it out on their own, following the movements of the protagonist’s soul and the vicissitudes of his life’s path. For a wide range of readers. 16+