In the Name of the People: Caught Studying a Foreign Language, I Strike Back and Topple Zhao

Chen Qingquan woke to find a naked Russian woman lying on his chest.

He glanced down at his phone: 22:07.

In twenty-three minutes, Hou Liangping would kick down the door.

In his previous life, he was an overworked office drone who died suddenly while binge-watching TV.

In this life, he became the internet's favorite meme: the useless deputy dean caught naked and shouting, "I wasn't soliciting a prostitute! I was learning a foreign language!"

He knows where the hidden compartment in the Shanshui Group is. He knows where every penny of Zhao Ruilong's dirty money went.

He knows Qi Tongwei's secret bank account. He knows every irregular approval document signed by Gao Yuliang.

He has lived through the entire script once more than anyone else, and he has memorized every detail.

He won't run. He'll call Hou Liangping.

From a tainted witness to deputy dean of the Jingzhou Intermediate People's Court, from director of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission to vice governor of Handong Province,

from the man the whole internet mocked for "learning a foreign language" to someone singled out by the National Development Research Center...

He spent the first half of his life atoning, and the second half turning his life around.

I was once a corrupt official. I will spend the rest of my life proving that even someone who took the wrong path can light the way for others.

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