Years of Exploration: The Rise and Fall in the Mining Field

At the turn of the century, the state-owned geological exploration teams faced a wave of restructuring. Chen Yuan, Tang Erzhu, and Tian Mu, three veteran exploration workers who spent years in the wild, had to bear the survival pressure brought by the changing times while dealing with the warmth of human relationships in their hometowns and the mundane worries of matchmaking and marriage. The hardships of deep mountain prospecting, the trivialities of neighborhood life, and the undercurrents behind mining rights slowly unfolded. Without intense conflicts at the start, this slow-burning and realistic narrative depicts the struggles and choices of ordinary people amid the tide of the era. — Description from novelcodex.org