Capitalism, after two hundred years of development, has entered its darkest moment of crisis every dozen years or so. This is the twilight of capital stagnation, where monopolistic giants carve up their territories in various domains, and all of humanity's legends about possibility and creativity are shackled by capital's chains.
This perpetual twilight strangles the future of humanity. Cheng Daqi, with immense courage, has stepped into this twilight, placing himself at the very pinnacle of the capitalistic order, and now, it has become difficult for him to turn back.
Capitalism is a relation of production; it's not that having money equates to having capital. Cheng's money is not much, but the relations of production he has established possess the unique erosive and alienating effects of capitalist relations of production on people.
Perhaps, it all started with Zhao Ying's disrobing.
Perhaps, it started when Cheng truly gave up on himself.
