You Refused to Marry Me When I Failed the Exams, So Why Are You Crying Now That I Have a Government Job?

In his previous life, Lin Yaodong spent half his life striving to amass a fortune worth tens of billions, only to lose his family and everything else in the cutthroat world of finance.

When he opened his eyes, he was back in the sweltering summer of 1996, the year he failed the college entrance exam.

His parents sighed, his relatives mocked him, and his snobbish first love broke off their engagement right to his face: "Lin Yaodong, you can't even get into college. You're a lost cause. We're done!"

Lin Yaodong smiled. To hell with going into business! To hell with prestigious universities!

Having lived another life, and carrying a lifetime's worth of social experience, all he wanted was a secure government job!

While others retook the exam to fight their way across the single-plank bridge, he found another path and entered the civil service with only a high school diploma!

With a vision thirty years ahead of his time, he thrived in the surging tides of the 1990s. He drank tea, read the papers, casually solved a few problems of the age, and climbed steadily up the ranks.

A few years later.

The future internet moguls and business tycoons were lining up outside his office, hoping for an audience with Director Lin.

And his gold-digging ex-girlfriend, watching Lin Yaodong inspect his department with confidence and vigor, was so filled with regret she could have kicked herself. She cried and begged him to take her back.

Lin Yaodong took a sip of tea. "Sorry, government offices don't take junk."