From Seafood Stall to Director's Desk

One fake diploma. One desperate father. One impossible dream. After bombing his college entrance exam, Ling Yun buys a forged foreign degree and scrapes into a forestry bureau job—as a lowly temp, thanks to his veteran father's seafood money and hard-won connections. Armed with street smarts, an eye for opportunity, and the guts to act when others freeze, he navigates the cutthroat world of civil service politics. From contract worker to township grunt to district powerhouse, Ling Yun masters the unwritten rules, wins over the right mentors, and seizes a bureaucratic reshuffle to pull off the…