Climbing to the Top, Step by Step

Politics is like a chess game: make one wrong move, and you lose everything.

In his previous life, Shen Yan was a civil servant in a remote county. After his powerful patron was brutally killed, he became a political pawn with no one to back him. Under relentless pressure, he died in despair.

Reborn with the memories of his previous life, he leads a double life. In public, he is a conscientious local secretary. In secret, he is a police informant lurking in the shadows.

Navigating a cutthroat world of power and wealth, he devotes himself to protecting ordinary people and personally tears apart the local network of criminal interests. With every step carefully planned, he ultimately rises to the summit of power!