In the Name of the People: I'm a Red Scion, and I'll Take Sha Ruijin Head-On

This cesspool of Han Dong's politics? I'll stir it up. I'm Lin Yuan.

My grandfather is one of the few founding elders still alive. My father commands a major military region, and my mother's family controls the purse strings.

At twenty-five, I parachute into Han Dong Province as the executive deputy secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Others get parachuted in to burnish their resumes. I'm here to clean up the bodies.

At the welcome banquet, I open the Map of All Living Beings and the Realm:

Sha Ruijin's aura is gold edged with gray. He wants to get things done, but wants power even more.

Gao Yuliang's aura is half gold, half black. He's read himself into a dead end, and won't be alive much longer.

Li Dakang is all sharp edges, a capable official, but also a slippery eel who changes course with the wind.

And Qi Tongwei?

Black energy rises into the sky, wrapped in a bloody glow.

I lift my glass and smile as I toast him: