Excellent Grade

(Short story without heroine, expected to be completed at about 80,000 words. Thank you to all old and new friends for your encouragement and support!) The annual year-end assessment season is here, and Liang Yongquan, the penholder of the provincial government office, is blocked. According to the above requirements for the proportion of outstanding candidates, the office can only recommend two outstanding candidates out of nine people. I originally wanted to settle the matter through internal discussion as in previous years. Unexpectedly, several gentle knocks on the door disrupted everything, and also knocked open his Tianling Cap. There are such shameless people in this world. This year's evaluation of excellence is really more troublesome than writing materials. The concern calls from above, the silent resistance of honest people, the continuous problems at work, and the fierce struggle between emotions and reasons inside all made him anxious. When everything was settled, Liang Yongquan felt that his road to promotion was tens of thousands of miles longer...