Official Path: Rising from the Bottom with Hidden Power

Fresh out of college with no connections and no prospects, rural graduate Song Qing should have been crushed by the system. Instead, armed with secret abilities and a shadowy background he barely understands, he claws his way up from lowly clerk to the pinnacle of power. Every promotion, every victory—calculated moves in a game far larger than he imagined. But when the truth surfaces, Song Qing discovers he's been a puppet all along. Now he faces an impossible choice: accept his role in someone else's grand design, or shatter the board and rewrite the rules. In a world where politics is war an…