Rebirth on the Official Path

Rebirth on the Official Path is an urban officialdom novel by web author Lu Shi Canjun, serialized on Qidian starting in 2008, totaling about 3.825 million characters and now complete. The protagonist, Tang Yi, comes from a prominent family and returns with the memories of a previous life, rising step by step in the official world through foreknowledge of events and skill at reading people. The novel starts at the grassroots level, moves through township and county posts, and continues up to the provincial and ministerial levels, involving personnel adjustments, factional maneuvering, handling of emergencies, and major cases, interspersed with romantic entanglements with several female characters. The author describes its positioning as "warmhearted and principled first, power games second; urban life first, officialdom second," aiming to write an urban officialdom story that is "relaxed without being childish, appealing to both refined and popular tastes." The book is regarded as one of the phenomenon-level works that set off the wave of officialdom novels in web literature, and author Lu Shi Canjun (real name Zhang Wei) became a contracted platinum author with Yuewen Group as a result. Note that the book contains considerable erotic and romantic content, and the original was taken down and revised on various platforms; the "meticulously edited" and "uncut" versions circulating online are mostly compiled by readers and have no official connection to the author or platforms.