My Career in Officialdom Began with a Posting from the Discipline Inspection Commission

The Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection's sharpest blade is dropped into Qingchuan County. On his very first day, he's shoved into an interrogation chair at the local police station.

Three years. Forty-seven tip-off letters. Not one ever led anywhere. Eleven of them repeated the same name: Sihai Sand and Gravel.

The night before he takes office, the old farmer who had petitioned for ten years dies at the county hospital.

The new officials want him to investigate drinking and card games.

He opens the first case file: a project worth 120 million has been reduced to 31 million.

The forty-seven tip-off letters will finally get answers, starting today.

(Chapter One: On His First Day in Office, He Was Handcuffed.)