Siheyuan: I'm the Neighborhood Office Director, Rising All the Way to the Ministry

When Lin Xiangdong wakes up, he has become the deputy director of the Hongxing Subdistrict Office in 1965. From the start, Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu are at his door to lodge a complaint: Silly Zhu was harassing someone, and must be dealt with harshly!

Anyone else would have offered a few words of consolation, swept it under the rug, and kept the peace.

But Lin Xiangdong opens the public complaints register right there and says, "Fine. Since we're calling it sexual harassment, we'll notify the police station and have a case opened. If the investigation finds that this was a false accusation, you won't get away with it either!"

One sentence, and the whole place erupts.

Qin Huairu can't even cry, Yi Zhonghai turns pale, and just as Jia Zhangshi opens her mouth to make a scene, Lin Xiangdong sends her straight into the public security process.

In an era when people get by in the courtyard through personal connections, seniority, and moral blackmail, Lin Xiangdong refuses to play along.

Reassessing a low-income household? Check their ration book, wages, and records of support for dependents!

A neighborhood dispute? Put it in the meeting minutes, get signatures, and request assistance from their work units!

When the courtyard's beasts try to use the old rules to manipulate him, he simply crushes them with the new procedures.

From establishing his authority at the subdistrict office to coordinating with the steel mill, police station, and neighborhood committee, then positioning himself ahead of the next policy shift.

While everyone else is scheming over a pound of cornmeal, he has already turned every disturbance into a promotion.

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