Planned gold

Author: Fang Jin
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: A thrilling bank robbery case, the story behind it, and a large-scale TV series based on this book is currently being adapted. On a warm spring working day, renowned lawyer Gu Zheng unexpectedly receives a visitor. This is Peng Dashu, a junior high school student he has never met before, whose calm and wise appearance occasionally reveals a hint of confusion and hesitation. Recently, a major bank robbery case, the "3.29" incident at a savings bank, has been absent from official media coverage, while rumors in the have risen and fallen. Who would have thought that Peng Dashu, a young and capable cadre from a state-owned bank, was an eyewitness to this case. His keen professional instincts, lively personality, and seemingly coincidental circumstances gradually pull Gu Lawyer from the outside into the of right and wrong between concrete actions and abstract thinking. He doesn’t know that in today’s society, with countless bank robberies occurring every year across the city, province, country, and even the world, people should face cases like "3.29" and evaluate such individuals. Because, at this moment, Gu Lawyer’s professional expertise, social experience, knowledge, and the like are not enough to unravel the many confusions in his heart.
As a work involving financial themes, it is neither a professional guide, a textbook, nor a documentary on behavior; nor is it a detective novel about police and gangsters; nor is it a portrayal of luxurious lifestyles with fancy cars, champagne, and red lights; or even an official version of a bureaucratic reality show wrapped in the sugar coating of industry labels, power, money, and sex. It is instead a heartfelt concern for the survival state of millions of ordinary financial workers, an intellectual reflection on human nature, emotions, and character, and a social issue novel that aims to provoke thought among people regarding social morality, legal norms, values, and behavioral standards.
Written in a documentary style with a serious literary attitude, the novel hopes to differ from traditional documentary literature perspectives while also avoiding the fixed conventions of pure literature, telling a story with real-life significance and excitement.