In 1988, Ye Zhiran, a high-achieving student from J University, participated in the open recruitment of grassroots cadres of the Organization Department of the Jianan Municipal Committee of the Yangtze River Province when he graduated. The leaders of the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee attached great importance to him and were assigned to work in Mashi Township, Changjia County, Jianan City. The novel begins when Ye Zhiran was promoted to the deputy head of the township after working in Mashi Township for two years, and describes how he started from the township step by step. The whole process of a grassroots cadre's leadership of the provincial party committee and his attitude towards life and love during the promotion. Let's see how a grassroots cadre can display his ambitions in the wave of reform and opening up, and show his political talent and leadership ability? Watch the protagonist in the ups and downs of the officialdom How to overcome the weakness of human nature, constantly surpass oneself, and reach the peak of power. In the face of beauty, can the protagonist maintain the original purity in his life when he treats love? How can the rising political star face the suppression of various factions and the wooing of family forces? Adhere to your own political philosophy of governing for the people? (The content of this book is purely fictitious)