The Ruthless King of the Officialdom

Jiang Chen had finally managed to get promoted to deputy section chief after years of being a pushover, only to be relentlessly bullied by the office director. With nothing left to lose, he reported the director’s corruption to the bureau chief. But before the bureau chief could even read the letter, he mysteriously jumped to his death. The Discipline Inspection Commission’s investigation pointed straight at Jiang Chen. At the moment his life hung in the balance, a mysterious phone call transferred him to the mayor’s office as the mayor’s secretary. Every faction instantly changed its tune, and sycophants came pouring in, yet no one knew why the mayor had chosen this doomed pawn. As Jiang Chen stepped into the whirlpool of power, he began to grow into his own: from holding the county government at gunpoint and blowing up a levee in the dead of night to release floodwaters, to seeking compensation from Japan and restoring historical justice, he set out on the path to becoming a formidable power broker.