Watching the Tides of Officialdom

Yuan Qi graduated from a third-rate undergraduate college with a teaching degree. More than a year after graduation, he was still bowing and scraping as a real estate salesman when his girlfriend, newly hired as a civil servant, broke up with him. Heartbroken, he resolutely gave up an income of over 300,000 yuan a month and took the civil service exam. Fueled by passion, he holds fast to his original ideals and steadily advances through the turbulent world of officialdom.