At the Peak of Power, Officialdom Begins with Office Clerks

(No heroine, no golden fingers, no emotional drama, secrets on working within the system, don't worry, brother!) At the age of thirty-five, Zhang Jiantian's life was shattered by a layoff notice. One day he was a powerful director of a large factory with an annual salary of one million, and the next day he became a member of the unemployed with a mortgage loan. In despair, he was admitted to the county party committee office with a poor score of fifth in the written examination. I thought I was going ashore, but I didn't expect that I was jumping into another fire pit! Here, he became the most out of place "old and new guy". The boss thought that he was old and had no background, and was only qualified to serve tea and water. Young colleagues thought that I was just a piece of cake, and laughed behind my back that he was an Internet person who couldn't even distinguish the format of official documents. They were all waiting to see the joke of him being kicked out, but they didn't know that the only thing he didn't lose was the pen in his hand! A report on township petitions that had been backlogged for half a year, and whoever touched it would be unlucky, was thrown onto my desk as a hot potato. He stayed up all night, pondering every word and every sentence. The moment the report was handed in, the entire office building fell silent! It is said that the top official in the county was so impressed on the spot after reading the report that he directly named Zhang Jiantian: "The person who wrote this report, Zhang Jiantian, asked him to come see me immediately!" From that day on, he was no longer the marginal person serving tea and water. Town petitions, boss games, undercurrents of power... This system, which is a hundred times crueler than the code world, is his real stage! Zhang Jiantian, step by step, climbed from an old clerk who was no one cared about to the core of power.