The Road to Power, 1997: From the Grassroots to the Top!

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[Feel-good political drama] [Reborn in a bygone era] [A carefully built career]

In his previous life, Chen Zheng groveled before the powerful to stay in the capital. He wasted half his life and eventually died from working late into the night.

Now he is back on the eve of his university graduation assignment in 1997!

His girlfriend Su Xiaoxiao, the campus beauty, offers him a secure government job in the capital, then arrogantly breaks up with him. Chen Zheng agrees with a cold laugh, turns around, and resolutely gives up his slot, volunteering to be sent to Ping County, the poorest place in the province!

His girlfriend sneers, “Go to some impoverished mountain ravine that doesn't even have electric lights. You'll never be worthy of looking up to me!”

His classmates scorn him, his relatives kick him while he's down, and everyone treats him as a joke for ruining his own future.

But Chen Zheng alone, with his “God's-eye view,” knows the truth:

Lin Xiangyang, now trampled underfoot and shunned by everyone, sitting on the coldest of benches, will one day become one of the Seven Warlords Under the King!

Armed with the ruthless tactics and foresight of a veteran cadre with thirty years of experience, Chen Zheng plunges into the muddy waters of Ping County.

He tears through the smiling tiger's soft blows, crushes the underworld's deadly plots, and wields his official seal like a royal decree. In this great era's game of power, he carves out a bloody path to the very top!

Three years later.

When Chen Zheng returns to the capital in a black sedan as the youngest rising star in politics, his once-arrogant ex-girlfriend sees him commanding the attention of the entire crowd. Her legs give way, and she drops to her knees, consumed with regret...

“The view from the pinnacle of power? In this life, I, Chen Zheng, will conquer it myself!”