Still Young Upon His Return: Qi Tongwei's Life of Breaking the Deadlock

As a bullet pierced his skull, a crack split open in time and space. Qi Tongwei was reborn at the 1996 graduation ceremony, back from the moment of his death at Guying Ridge. The calluses from kneeling in his previous life still lingered in his palm. He accepted the rose Liang Lu offered him, but his gaze passed over her shoulder and landed on the cover of Gao Yuliang's yet-unpublished manuscript in the distance. Trouble followed him like a shadow. His humble origins kept him shackled at every turn, and rejecting Liang Lu would end his political career. Then a turning point arrived: through “fragments of memory,” he glimpsed the political power games of the future, and his battle with Hou Liangping began five years ahead of schedule. The cost crept closer in silence: every flash of foresight felt like another rib being torn from the framework of his life. Beneath the glitz and glamour of Shanshui Manor lay the fulcrum of fate, and Zhong Xiaoai's arrival added another twist to the game. Once, he had been a lone eagle crushed by fate. Now he had to fly against the wind, staking everything on the scales of power and public favor. If he still couldn't escape his fate after getting a second chance, was the struggle to fly nothing but an illusion before the fall?