After the former leader got into trouble, Jiang Yan's transfer order arrived the very next day.
The girlfriend he'd been with for three years was the first to turn against him.
His new post was as a caretaker at the North District Reservoir. Once at ten at night, once at two in the morning, he had to walk the dam alone.
Everyone thought he was finished.
Jiang Yan didn't argue or ask why. He committed every name to memory.
Before leaving, Su Wantang pressed a USB drive into his hand.
He asked, "What's on it?"
"I'll tell you when you need it."
That night, he pulled a woman out of the water.
A day later, an order caught up with him at the reservoir, telling him to return and complete the paperwork.
On the day he returned to the office, the person who had pushed him down in the first place stood at the meeting room door and bowed.
The reservoir wasn't the end.
It was where his journey back into that building began.
