From the director of the Environmental Protection Bureau to the secretary of the county party committee, Lin Qingquan has always struggled to find the balance between ecological protection and economic development, facing the undercurrent of the officialdom's ecology and the difficulties of transformation. The work outlines the complex picture of grassroots governance with delicate brushstrokes, showing an idealist's persistence, struggle and breakthrough in the torrent of the times, and reflecting the pain and dawn in the modernization process of China's county governance.