On the speeding train, Yuanyuan Li wore a frown.
She was a child raised in Haidu City, where conditions at home were never good. Her parents were ordinary workers at the Sea Star Company's farm, supporting her college education with meager wages and hardworking hands.
She was well aware of her hometown's plight and remembered the sea that nurtured her, which had withered away in the policy storm. Therefore, she deliberately chose the "Marine Resources and Environmental Management" major in college, harboring a simple dream: to return with her knowledge to help her hometown, and to help people like her parents who depend on the sea, find a new way out.
She thought she had chosen a path that could connect ideals with reality. However, the cold reality drenched her spirit thoroughly.
