Climbing to the Top Step by Step

Officialdom is like chess. If you make one wrong move, you will lose the whole game. In his previous life, Shen Yan was a civil servant in a remote county. After his patron died tragically, he became an outcast in the officialdom with no one to support him, and died in depression amid endless oppression. Reborn with the memories of his previous life, he has a dual identity. In front of the public, he is a law-abiding secretary, and behind the scenes, he is a police informant hiding in the dark. Surrounded by intrigues and deceptions in the vanity fair, he devoted himself to protecting the people at the bottom, tearing apart the network of local evil interests with his own hands, working step by step, and finally standing on the top of power!