I, Gao Yuliang, Just Want My Students to Make Progress!

The synopsis is ridiculous. The idea that disagreeing with Zhao Ruilong's proposal would lead to Zhao Lichun demoting Gao Yuliang to a different city as the Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission is utter nonsense. Even if Zhao Lichun were the provincial party secretary, he wouldn't have the authority to demote Gao Yuliang if he hadn't committed any clear wrongdoing.

Changing the Party Secretary to the Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission is just absurd. If you're going to make a change, don't drag people into it. Why not just put him in charge of some idle department in the province?

Kidnapping and attempting to murder a district chief only warrants a few days of detention? Is your brain filled with shit?

The biggest problem with this book is the timeline. More than ten years have been shortened to about two years. How could Sha Ruijin have come to Handong so quickly? By the time he arrived in Handong, how many years had Qi Tongwei been the director of the department?

The author, Li Dakang, is a corrupt official whose family members live abroad—someone without parents, a spouse, or children. Can he still get promoted?

If even a provincial party secretary can fly around in the air, he might as well just establish his own country.

Sha Ruijin said he couldn't do it, but he wouldn't allow anyone else to. No one dared oppose his decisions unless they wanted to lose their jobs; no one dared to supervise him. Submitting these words to the Central Committee was more serious than factionalism; factions at least had discussions, but he was utterly self-important.

Old Zhao still has a year and a half before he goes to Beijing, Gao Gang has been in politics for two years, and Qi isn't even married yet—what kind of timeline is this? The Municipal Political and Legal Affairs Commission Secretary isn't even concurrently serving as the Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, yet he wants to be promoted to the Provincial Party Committee in a year and…

I finished reading it. It was passable, but the opening scene where a department head was demoted to deputy department head without any major wrongdoing, even though it was later clarified that he would retain his department head rank, still felt ridiculous. Also, the first few chapters mentioned the Ming Dynasty, then switched to "Battle Through the Heavens," creating contradictions.

Someone who's so eager to get promoted that they're quick to investigate their teachers and senior colleagues won't go far. No one will dare to consider them a confidant; they'll only be a tool, and a low-ranking one at that, otherwise they risk hurting themselves.