The County Party Office: From Junior Clerk to the Table

[Officialdom | Power Plays | Wits and Strategy | Rise from the Bottom | No Sycophancy, Just Scheming] In the world of officialdom, success has never depended on who speaks the loudest. It depends on who sees furthest and plans deepest. Lin Yuan has been lying low in the county Party committee office for three years. Everyone thinks he is honest, dull, and going nowhere. Only he knows he is waiting for an opportunity. An opportunity to rise from the edge of the table and take a seat at it. When a project tied to the deputy county magistrate’s daughter hits the landmine of a demolition dispute, everyone wants to bury the trouble. Lin Yuan is the only one who sees that it is not trouble, but a game. When someone uses documents to block him, he turns those same documents against them. When someone tries to bind him with rules, he uses the rules to dig a pit for them. Some think he is using a woman to climb the ladder. They have no idea that he has been the one holding the reins from start to finish. One move, one game. One game, one step higher. From the lowest-ranking clerk to a seat at the very heart of power. But on this long road to the top, what he truly seeks is not just a position. He also wants the truth about the old case that drove his father into a dead end. On this road, no one is innocent. And no one gets away unscathed.