From the invisible power of the "unknown person" in the office to the way to stop losses in times of crisis, from the light and dark barriers on the road to promotion to the warmth and warmth of human relationships after the ebb of power, retired cadre Wang Mingzheng used decades of officialdom experience to dismantle those survival logics that cannot be written into textbooks.
Each story connects a microscopic picture of the institutional ecology. When hidden rules meet power tactics, when the game of mentality meets the puzzle of promotion, behind every choice is a battle between human nature and rules...