She Married Someone Else, So I Rose to the Top of Officialdom

On the day they broke up, his girlfriend married someone else.

Lin Haoyu stood outside a wedding in the county seat, watching the woman who had once promised him forever walk toward another man in her wedding dress. He didn’t make a scene or cry. He turned and walked through the doors of the township government. He would stay and work his way up from the bottom.

In this unfamiliar small town, he met Jiang Lan, who loved fiercely and hated fiercely, and the warmhearted Sister Zhao Min. He also crossed paths with local tough Liu Biao and deeply entrenched local powers. On one side were the cold stares and oppression of his ex-girlfriend’s in-laws; on the other, his mother’s family quietly offered a helping hand.

What he didn’t know was that his mother, whom he thought of as an ordinary housewife, was hiding a secret that could change his fate.

From a hapless man who’d been dumped to a young official no faction dared to underestimate, he would make this journey one step at a time.