The Road to Officialdom: From Township Clerk to Regional Chief

A factory director in his previous life, he starts over as a township clerk in this one. Rooted in the countryside, he takes up the unfinished dream of his father, a veteran water conservancy worker, and builds a better home for his hometown!

In his previous life, Xing Zhiyuan gave up the civil service exam to please his girlfriend. He spent thirty years working at a private company on the coast, enduring the climb from production-line worker to factory director and seeing firsthand how mercilessly capital pursued profit.

By middle age, all he had to show for it was a broken family and a life with nothing to show for itself. Looking back at his hometown, he saw abandoned fields and a hollowed-out village. His father, a veteran water conservancy worker who had spent his whole life shouldering blame, died with regrets, leaving an obsession that never let Xing Zhiyuan rest.

Then he woke up on the day of the 2002 municipal civil service interview!

This time, he resolutely cast aside his restless ambitions and headed for a remote township in Ping County, the poorest county in the province, to build water conservancy projects, revitalize the countryside, and benefit his hometown.

In this life, can he make up for his regrets? Can thirty years of corporate methods, business logic, and grassroots insight serve him in government?

But as he puts his plans into practice, he discovers that there seems to be more to this town than meets the eye...

At the same time, he also meets the love of his life...