[Hidden strength] [All-rounder] [Infrastructure building] [Feel-good power fantasy] Twenty years ago, Lin Chao was secretly recruited by the state and became a sparring partner for its “Genius Development Program.”
He had just one task: make those geniuses win.
Twenty years later, the program was disbanded. With his discharge papers in hand, he returned to his hometown, Qinghe County.
The neighbors all said, “He spent twenty years working away from home and couldn’t even afford an apartment. What a loser.”
Lin Chao just smiled and said nothing.
Until someone came to forcibly demolish his old family home.
Three phone calls, and the entire construction crew packed up and left.
One document, and a real estate tycoon’s face changed on the spot.
Only then did the county’s people realize:
Anyone in this “loser’s” contacts could make all of Qinghe County quake just by showing up.
