Newly hired at the General Affairs Bureau, Bi Sheng assumes Pei Xiang is just a big sister who clocks out on time and sips goji berries from her thermos while slacking off.
Then an urgent matter suddenly hits the bureau. The leaders are running around in a panic, while Big Sis calmly opens the List of Responsibilities and sorts out a cross-departmental mess in just a few words. She even helps a newcomer get out of a tight spot.
Bi Sheng is stunned: This isn’t some slacker! This is a max-level veteran slaughtering her way through the beginner’s village!
The restroom renovation hits a snag? Big Sis deftly coordinates everyone with a little people skills and gets it done in ten minutes.
A thorny complaint comes knocking? Big Sis uses proper procedures to turn a crisis into an opportunity with barely any effort.
Bi Sheng becomes Big Sis’s biggest fan, convinced that as long as he sticks with her, he’ll thrive at the grassroots level.
Until one day, he finds an old case file from ten years ago in the archives.
The name in the handler field is unmistakably Pei Xiang.
Bi Sheng takes the file to her for advice. Pei Xiang simply blows on the goji berries in her cup and smiles faintly.
“I was young back then. I thought someone had to take on the tough jobs. Looking back, it was pretty stupid.”
What Bi Sheng doesn’t know is how much hurt grassroots workers have swallowed and how much quiet perseverance lies behind Big Sis’s offhand remark that it was “stupid”...
