I Only Wanted to Be a Lowly Clerk, but Reality Had Other Plans

My name is Hong Wenxiu. I work as a low-ranking clerk in a small county town on the southeastern coast. I originally only wanted to take whatever came my way and lie flat for the rest of my life. But by a stroke of fate, I came into contact with a vast village, and what I thought was an ordinary construction project turned out to involve powerful officials and bureaucrats.