People don't understand until they are forty, but it's too late.
Fang Yuan has endured within the system for twenty years. He does not take sides, hug his legs, or give gifts. He only believes in one thing: if you do your job well, the leaders will naturally see it. It turns out that the leader did see it - he saw that he was a bully. The project money was tampered with, he was the one who signed it, he was the one who handled it, and of course he was the one who took the blame. When a dismissal notice came down, twenty years of career came to naught, and there was no one to speak for him.
Drunk to death, then open your eyes again - 2002. Sophomore year. My mother is still alive, and everything is still possible.
After re-living, Fang Yuan held on to the memories of the next twenty years, but found that even the first step was frightening. My roommate, Lin Tao, is a boring gourd. He just sits in the library and does questions every day. In his previous life, he didn't know until he was in his thirties that this "boring gourd"'s father was a powerful figure in the province. His ex-girlfriend Su Xiao was beautiful, cheerful, and loved by everyone—she was also her in his previous life, and she found a new wife before he was fired.
The competition for internship places in provincial agencies, the overt and covert conflicts at the grassroots level, the interest game in attracting investment... Fang Yuan stepped on the rhythm of rebirth and moved forward step by step on the tightrope of human relationships and rules. In his previous life, he lost because he only knew how to bury his head in work and did not know how to look up and see the road. In this life, he must do his job well and see the road clearly.
But as the road went further and further, he discovered that there were some pits that he had never stepped on in his previous life, and he still couldn't avoid them in this life.