Siheyuan: One Piece of Intel a Day, All the Way into the Ministry

From an eighteen-year-old procurement intern to deputy section chief, section chief, and then director of the National Foreign Investment Administration, Lin Yuan spent more than twenty years climbing the ranks.

He helped Zhiyuan Group grow in Hong Kong, then used clear-cut trusts and asset segregation to keep his business empire completely separate from his public office.

Lin Wanqing went from a temporary worker who had fled famine to a capable manager who could stand on her own.

The children each found their own paths too: An Lan and Su Xiaoman planned to pursue further studies, Tingwan got into Peking University, An Yu showed remarkable talent at an early age, and An Bang searched for his direction with a paintbrush in hand.

Looking back at Courtyard No. 95, the schemes Yi Zhonghai and the Jia family hatched back then no longer mattered at all.

What Lin Yuan truly gained was not just rank and wealth, but a light that would always be on whenever his children came home, no matter how far they had gone.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.