Clumsy Progress

Everyone pursues shortcuts, worships intelligence, and dreams of reaching the sky in one step. The young Lin Zhuo was born into a noisy and chaotic native family, with low self-esteem and sobriety. A yellowed family letter from Zeng Guofan taught him to be humble, perseverant, and introspective. He entered a workshop that made fairy tale mechanical dolls as an apprentice. There were people around him who were good at dancing and gained fame through cleverness; Lin Zhuo did not pursue skill or impetuosity, nor did he fight for victory or defeat in the moment. He built strongholds and fought stupid battles. He devoted himself to honing his skills for countless unseen days and nights, endured criticism, conspiracy, and injustice, refrained from arrogance and endured humiliation, and took root step by step. This is not a legend of a genius counterattack, but an ordinary person who gave up all shortcuts, used clumsiness as armor, and longevity as a sharp edge, and slowly embarked on a path of growth that belongs to ordinary people. The wisest path in the world is precisely not to take shortcuts. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.