Inkstone Leaves Traces

Lin Yan has a special eye for "reading details": he can discern unexplained decision-making controversies from the revised handwriting of meeting minutes; he can detect deliberately vague facts from the pauses in the tone of cadre reports; he can even discern the timing of people's hearts behind even changes in the placement of office documents.​ The police academy students who were supposed to stay in the provincial capital were sent to remote Yunxi County. From the police to the organization department of the county party committee, he moved this "perception" from the desk to the administrative workplace - during cadre assessment, he relied on time loopholes in his resume to expose fraud; during grassroots mediation, he found the crux of the matter based on the detailed contradictions stated by both parties; even when coordinating departmental disputes, he could pinpoint the key to breaking the ice from the wording changes in correspondence.​ Some people say that he is "too serious" and should not offend others by focusing on details; others advise him to "follow the crowd" and not use his "special skills" to make himself unhappy. But Lin Yan always remembered that the details he saw through were not tools for making money, but weights to uphold the original intention of "serving the people."​ From the grassroots to the administrative level, from being prudent to being sensible, he has not lost his eye for "reading details", but has learned to use it: to see the warmth of people in the workplace and to abide by the bottom line of work within the system. After ten years of sharpening his sword, Lin Yan's every step in the administrative workplace is marked by the mark of "the details reveal the sincerity"——​ The inkstone is the heart, and the marks are the evidence. Keeping the details is to keep the original intention.