At 26, Zhou Zheng is an ordinary clerk in the county government office. He has a second-tier college degree, comes from a working-class family, and rides a secondhand electric scooter to work. His colleagues tease him for being old-fashioned, while the women he meets on blind dates think he isn't handsome, rich, or tall enough. He just smiles and lets it pass. One night on duty, he spots a problem in some environmental compliance paperwork, and his life begins to change in subtle ways. From information clerk to county Party secretary, Zhou Zheng takes ten years to prove that ordinary people, too, can earn respect and build a future simply by being dependable.
