Midlife: Rising to the Top

In middle age, Zhao Chuyang is a low-level employee struggling at work and barely making ends meet. Then, out of nowhere, he becomes deputy director of the Operations and Planning Department at Qingyuan Coal Company, dubbed "Qingyuan City's Second Development and Reform Commission." He now wields power capable of affecting countless people's lives...

Countless people start sucking up to him and currying favor! Colleagues who once looked down on him now gaze up at him! Beautiful women of every kind flock around him! Powerful figures he'd only ever seen in newspapers and on TV now seek his friendship! Even his wife and mother-in-law, who used to barely give him the time of day, start desperately ingratiating themselves with him!...