In 1992, the wave of state-owned enterprise reforms swept across northern Jin. Chen Mingyuan, a grassroots civil servant, had hoped to do his job in peace, but his green mining initiative and hardline push for urban redevelopment angered local power brokers and conservatives, leaving him caught in one crisis after another. While investigating corruption at a mining conglomerate, he comes across a ledger that unexpectedly reveals clues to his own origins. From then on, he remains true to his principles, fights corruption with an iron fist, and drives economic transformation. Starting at the grassroots in the countryside, he forges ahead through the tides of the times, advancing step by step. His achievements help him break through obstacle after obstacle, and in the end he carves out his own path to political prominence!
