1. Protagonist: Lin Zhiyuan
- Born in 1977, from a rural family in Minghu County, Yunjiang Province.
- Graduated from the History Department of Yunjiang University in 1999 with excellent grades and a calm and principled personality.
- Initial ideal: to change the face of poverty in his hometown, and later gradually formed the political ideal of "serving an official for one term and benefiting the country".
- Personality characteristics: cautious, good at learning, attaching importance to investigation and research, having a bottom line but also knowing how to be flexible.
