Bloodied Siheyuan, Climbing to the Pinnacle of Power

In 2024, Li Zheng, a key investigator with the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, was murdered while investigating a cold case involving property rights transactions from the early days of Reform and Opening Up. He transmigrated to 1988 and found himself inhabiting Li Weimin, who had been gravely injured and left unconscious at the scene of a murder in a Beijing courtyard home!

The sole witness to the crime scene, yet suffering from amnesia, he is the "survivor". Caught between the suspicions and probing of various factions, he has no choice but to navigate their schemes, drawing on his previous life's investigative experience and deep understanding of the history of reform. He starts out as a temporary worker at the neighborhood office!

Caught in the twin whirlpools of solving the case and the tide of the times, he gradually uncovers the property-rights scandal and power deals hidden behind the bloody courtyard murder. In the end, he enters officialdom and reaches the pinnacle of power!

His path to power: Murder case survivor/suspect → temporary worker at the neighborhood office → assistant investigator at the district public security sub-bureau → cadre seconded to the district reform office → rising star at the municipal reform commission → deputy county magistrate of Yunxi → county magistrate of Yunxi → Yunxi County Party Committee secretary → deputy secretary of the Shiyan Municipal Party Committee → Shiyan Municipal Party Committee secretary → acting mayor of Jiangcheng, the provincial capital → mayor of Jiangcheng, the provincial capital → Jiangcheng Municipal Party Committee secretary and member of the Jianghu Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.