Reborn in the Bureaucracy: I Refuse to Be Anyone's Pawn

One slap changes everything. When secretary Xia Licheng strikes his corrupt superior, he seals his fate—or so they think. Reborn to 2004 with twenty years of insider knowledge, Xia refuses to play the political games that destroyed him before. Demoted to a funeral center for rejecting his boss's goddaughter, he transforms disgrace into opportunity. Armed with future insight and an iron will, he navigates the cutthroat world of Chinese officialdom, exposing corruption, forging strategic alliances, and climbing the ranks on his own terms. No more scapegoat. No more puppet. This time, he writes h…