In the Name of the People: I Reject Liang Lu's Proposal from the Start and Rise Through the Ranks

After gunshots rang out at Lone Eagle Ridge, Qi Tongwei didn't die. He returned to the summer that changed the course of his life: with three bullet wounds, lying in an adobe house, while outside the door stood the stooped figure of Teacher Qin, a forest ranger.

In his previous life, at this turning point, he chose to submit to power and never found his way back.

In this life, he looked at the gun in his hand, with only one bullet left, and made a completely different choice.

He would not kneel again! Even if promotion was out of reach, even if his future seemed bleak, even if the Liang family's shadow loomed over all of Handong, he would never bend his knee again.

He would live differently, using his conscience, his passion, and the wisdom and experience he'd accumulated over twenty years in his previous life to forge a path of his own.

The moment the helicopter lifted him from Lone Eagle Ridge, he looked at the forest receding beyond the window and silently thought: Goodbye, the old Qi Tongwei. I'm coming, new world!

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