The Mining Circle

Ten years ago, Shen Yanxie was the earliest evangelist of mining in the Gobi Desert. After seeing that capital would inevitably devour ideals, he retreated to a border town. Ten years later, the mining circle has become a bloody hunting ground for capital oligarchs—manufacturer Li Chenghuan monopolizes chips, mining pool Fu Linzhou harvests in the dark, and manipulator Gao Shuo orchestrates scams, while grassroots miners are reduced to cyclical consumables, their families ruined. At the plea of an old friend and amid the cries of the masses, Shen Yanxie breaks his vow and returns. Without capital or hype, relying only on his extreme insight into cyclical laws and his conscience, he tears apart the harvesting loop of the three oligarchs and awakens the deluded masses. When the capital hegemony collapses and justice arrives belatedly, he scatters his wealth, rejects all fame and fortune, and quietly returns to the border town to brew tea. This is not a get-rich-quick fantasy but a cold fable about cycles, human nature, and redemption—the era of computing power overturns everything, yet cannot tame human greed.