The Road to Office: My Father Is a Hidden Powerhouse

On the day he passed the civil service exam, Lu Chengyuan thought he was just an ordinary farmer's son. Pushed around by local power brokers and jilted by a wealthy heiress, he enters the fray alone, treading carefully at every turn. But whenever he finds himself in an impossible bind, a few casual remarks from his father, who sits smoking a long-stemmed pipe, somehow turn out to be strokes of genius that get him out of trouble. “Dad, who are you, really?” Lu Lin taps the ash from his pipe. “I'm just a farmer. At most... I led a few soldiers in the capital back in the day.” Only then does Lu Chengyuan realize that behind him stands the strongest backbone in all of China! From then on, he stops holding back and charges ahead, rising to wield power over all under heaven!