Officialdom: In the 1990S, I Had Connections That Reached the Heavens!

On a stormy night in 2010, Gu Heng, lying in his hospital bed, received a gift designed to break his heart: a paternity test ruling out a biological father-daughter relationship. His wife betrayed him, her lover took his place, and his family fortune was stolen. His father, once a member of the Council of Elders, cursed him right up until his death: “A good-for-nothing who’d throw away his backbone for a woman!” His mother, a bank president, died alone and miserable in a nursing home after trying to fill the holes he had left in their finances. Gu Heng died full of resentment, unable to rest in peace. When he opened his eyes again, he was back in 1990, a turbulent age of rapid change and wild growth. His father still held a high position, and his mother still wielded great power. He was still the ambitious master’s student at Jiang University. Faced with the regrets and hatred of his past life, Gu Heng made a decision that stunned everyone: he turned down the “secure government job” at the General Office and went alone to the nearly bankrupt Third Cotton Textile Factory in Ouyue City! People laughed at him for walking away from the cushy life of a “princeling” to wallow in a quagmire. Only Gu Heng knew that the next thirty years would be a time of soaring national fortunes. He would take a path no one had ever taken before, using state-owned enterprise reform as his springboard and economic development as his weapon to carve a road to the top from within the system!