Mo Shang You Hua Kai

An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.

A young electrical engineer, engaged to his boss's daughter and on the way to a secure existence, breaks out of his usual life when he meets a childhood friend.

In the prologue, the well-respected Dr. Lloyd Jenkins goes after custody of his 12 year old nephew Caleb Jenkins, the son of his sister Shanita Sullivan. Lloyd has always considered himself to be a successful man, however; the ability to not have a son of his own reminded him that his success had its limitations. He would give anything to have a son of his own, even if it meant betraying his sister. He was inwardly angry and bitter that life left him feeling incomplete within, Lloyd needed redemption.

Two scientists grow old and weary together in a secret Soviet Institute, their unconventional friendship the only consistency in a lifetime of personal and professional disappointments.