In name only: In the name of Zhao Mengsheng's son!

Liang Lu sat in the same old spot, crying. Looking at this place, she recalled the first time she met Zhao Zhongxin. She had indeed fallen in love with Zhao Zhongxin, but it was a twisted kind of love! Her love was about binding others!

Hou Liangping and his girlfriend Xiao Xue were taking a walk when they saw a woman sitting there crying. Hou Liangping didn't intend to pay any attention to her, but Xiao Xue recognized her as Liang Lu!

The gears of fate began to turn! The moment Liang Lu saw Hou Liangping, she fell in love again! Hou Liangping was handsome too! She knew Hou Liangping; wasn't he Zhao Zhongxin's henchman? Since she couldn't get revenge on Zhao Zhongxin, she would get his henchman, and Hou Liangping was even younger!

Liang Lu's eyes began to look crazed! Zhao Zhongxin never dreamed that when he returned to Handong, Director Qi would become Director Hou!

After Zhao Zhongxin returned to Beijing, his grandmother happily took him to the Zhang family, where he had been engaged years ago. Zhao Zhongxin was a little surprised when he saw his young fiancée!

"Damn, is this fourteen? Is this really fourteen?"

She's quite voluptuous! At 1.7 meters tall, with a curvy figure, she's still a child!

"New brother! Long time no see!"

"Wanwan, it's been so long!"

This girl's name is the same as Zhao Zhongxin's, Zhang Wanxin. It was really a match made up by the older generation. Zhao Zhongxin felt a little guilty!

After chatting for a few minutes, Zhao Zhongxin took the opportunity to slip away. Although she looked like a big girl, she still spoke like a little girl!

Zhao Zhongxin's father, Zhao Mengsheng, is about to be transferred again. He served as a vice minister in a ministry in Beijing for two years. This time, he will be parachuted into Sichuan Province to become the governor. Zhao Mengsheng is only 46 years old at this time.

This father and son are strange; they had only been reunited for a short time before having to separate again, like an irrational number, infinitely close yet untouchable!

After settling down, Zhao Zhongxin stayed at home and looked at the several paths his father, Zhao Mengsheng, had arranged for him!

Alternatively, you could spend a few years working your way up in Beijing, becoming a secretary in Xiyuan when you're 25 or 26, and then, when you're almost 30, become the top official in a county, getting promoted every three years! Take it slow!

The second option is to follow him to Sichuan, where the family can reunite!

Without a second thought, Zhao Zhongxin chose the first option. The second option would require him to gain seniority. His parents and sister had gone to Sichuan, so it was only right for him to stay in Beijing and take care of his wealthy grandmother. After all, his grandmother was getting old and needed her children and grandchildren by her side.

In 1997, 28-year-old Zhao Zhongxin married 20-year-old Zhang Wanxin. This marriage was not one plus one equals two; it was one gang plus another gang, well, no, that's not quite right. It should be two families coming together!

Zhao's only grandson married the second daughter of Zhang's eldest son, and the two families had been on good terms for three generations. Zhang Wanxin's elder brother, Zhang Dongxin, was Zhao Zhongxin's younger brother back then. It was Zhang Dongxin who brought out the cigarette that burned Zhong Jianjun's cigarette butt! He was also the one who lit the cigarette, otherwise Zhao Zhongxin wouldn't have had a fire to start the cigarette!

Needless to say, Zhao Mengsheng and Zhao Zhongxin's father-in-law were inseparable since childhood, fighting and doing underground boxing together.

As for the two oldest ones, they are both gone now. Their ashes are in the neighbor's house. If they could, they would both like to sleep in the same hole!

To sum it up, Zhao Mengsheng served as the second-in-command in Sichuan for a year and the top position for five years. Now he can finally return to Beijing, but Zhao Zhongxin, at 28, is old enough to take up a post in a county below!

This father and son seem to be under a curse! They've separated again!

Zhao Zhongxin truly believed that Sha Ruijin was absolutely right! He now felt it too. From county party secretary to city party secretary, he had served for over a decade, and he had basically accomplished everything he set out to do. If he didn't want to do something, no one else could. Were there any objections from below? Yes! But very few, unless they wanted to give up their positions! The disciplinary committee and the procuratorate at the same level didn't dare to supervise him, nor could they!

The top leader is truly a powerful figure. The second-in-commands at the same level are almost all a generation older than him. No one needs to ask around; at that age, to be in such a position, one must either have connections in the family or someone else's family!

It was also Zhao Zhongxin's transmigrator identity that ensured his father and father-in-law were always on the right side. So, by the time Zhao Zhongxin turned 45, Zhao Mengsheng and his father-in-law Zhang Likai were already sixth and seventh in the rankings! (I'm talking about the Chinese version of Honor of Kings!)

Meanwhile, Zhao Zhongxin is currently bidding farewell at the provincial party committee of Linjiang Province. He's going to take up the position of executive vice governor in Handong, fourth in line for promotion. Furthermore, Governor Liu of Handong is retiring in a few months, and Zhao Zhongxin's move is to wait for Governor Liu's retirement, then succeed him as acting governor for two years before becoming the official governor! Because Professor Gao Yuliang has reached the age limit and can't be promoted, Zhao Zhongxin is the only option. He's also an executive vice governor in Linjiang Province, but there's no room for further promotion. Linjiang Province is his father-in-law's stronghold; there's no need to compete for resources from his father-in-law's territory!

"Professor Gao, Brother Xin is coming to Handong, as the Executive Vice Governor! As long as he's on our side, even the newly arrived Sha Ruijin will have to defer to our Handong University faction!"

Meanwhile, in Handong, Qi Tongwei was very excited. He felt that his chance had come. He had never married Liang Lu and his career had not been very successful, but he was daring and hardworking. In addition, after Gao Yuliang took office, he promoted him and still became the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau. However, Qi Tongwei had one bad point: he liked to flatter and fawn. He even cried at the Zhao family's grave!

Qi Tongwei is right. Governor Liu will retire in a few months and won't be able to manage things. No one dares to make him take sides. He's basically an emperor with little time left, wielding an ultimate imperial weapon. Whoever he touches dies. If anyone tries to stop him from landing, he'll just sink Handong! So, as soon as Zhao Zhongxin arrives, he can take over the provincial government!

Gao Yuliang glanced at Qi Tongwei. Apart from being a sycophant and protective of his own, this student Qi Tongwei had no other problems. But forming cliques was something you could do, but you couldn't say it out loud!

"How many times have I told you? Our Handong Province is a plain, where did all these mountains come from!"

After Gao Yuliang finished speaking, he thought of Zhao Zhongxin. Zhao Zhongxin was truly exceptional to him. Although the last time they met was seven or eight years ago, every year on his birthday, Wu Huifen's birthday, Gao Fangfang's birthday, and the three major festivals—Spring Festival, May Day, and August Day—Zhao Zhongxin would send gifts through someone! This had been the case for over a decade!

Gao Yuliang is now worried about Hou Liangping. After marrying Liang Lu, Hou Liangping's official position has risen above that of his old classmate Qi Tongwei, becoming the director of the Public Security Bureau. But he is not satisfied and wants to go further, aiming to become the vice governor in charge of public security organs!