Desperate Ordinary Man

Chen Ye is twenty-six, buried under over a hundred thousand in debt, trapped doing hard labor on a construction site. Being honest and hardworking earns him no kindness—his fellow townsman Zhao Qiang secretly trips him up, and foreman Zhang Kun waits for chances to skim off his hard-earned wages. Dragged down by his family of origin, abandoned by his ex-girlfriend who despised his poverty, he is surrounded by cold stares and scheming. At the bottom there is no fairness; the weak are easy targets. Only Old Zhou, the veteran worker on the site, wakes him up: brute strength is worth the least—to turn your life around, you have to change tracks. In a cold rain, blow after blow of humiliation and setbacks pushes him to the breaking point, and Chen Ye stops simply enduring. He swallows every grievance, sets aside his pride, and while paying off his debts gropes for a way out, struggling step by step through the warmth and coldness of human relations. This is no tale of overnight riches—it is a realistic comeback story of an ordinary man gritting his teeth and holding on in the mud, slowly breaking free of his predicament and keeping his true heart. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Desperate Ordinary Man — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠