Chapter 623 Extra: Lin Jiefang's Beautiful Dream (Extra Chapter Complete)
"Officer Lin, the director wants to see you."
His colleague tapped lightly on his desk, looked at him with envy, and whispered.
Lin Jiefang thanked him, put down his pen, and hurried to the office of the auto parts factory director.
"Director, you wanted to see me."
The director smiled and waved to him, "Come in quickly, close the door, I have good news for you."
Lin Jiefang sighed and closed the door.
"The factory director's original secretary has been transferred. The factory plans to pick a capable person from the office to fill in for a few days. I recommended you for the position. Make the most of it and try to take over as the factory director's secretary."
The director patted him on the shoulder and said, "I have high hopes for you."
Lin Jiefang's eyes lit up.
"Don't worry, Director. I will work hard and strive to get promoted as soon as possible so that I can marry Nannan as the factory director's secretary and give her a grand wedding."
The director smiled with relief. "We only have one precious daughter. Treat her well. We'll definitely help you if we can. By the way, this weekend you and your daughter should go meet your uncle and aunt. Your uncle has just been transferred to the municipal office, working in the secretary's office in Yan City. This Yan City official has a very good relationship with your uncle's father-in-law. Go and get acquainted with them first. After you get married, we can ask your uncle to help you out in Yan City..."
Lin Jiefang's heart skipped a beat, his throat bobbed with excitement, and he swallowed hard to suppress the throbbing in his heart.
"Dad, I will definitely do my best."
Seeing that he understood, the director casually asked, "I heard from Nannan that you want your first child to take her surname?"
“Yes, Nannan said she’s an only child and won’t have your surname after she gets married. I’m thinking that we should have two children. The first child, whether it’s a boy or a girl, will take her surname so that we can carry on the family line. My parents married Nannan to me, a low-ranking official, and they treat me like their own daughter, paving the way for me. The only way I can repay them is by giving them a child’s surname. Besides, Nannan will be the one giving birth to the child, and she’ll be the one who really suffers…”
"Good boy."
The director sighed with emotion, "I'm glad to hear your words. You're a grateful person. Once this is settled, you and Nannan should get married."
"Yes, Dad."
The father-in-law and son-in-law exchanged a glance and both smiled.
The weekend meeting was pleasant. Zheng Huaixin and Xu Ying had a good impression of him. Xu's father gave him a few pointers and praised him to Zheng Huaixin, saying, "Your nephew-in-law is a really capable person. He is indeed a college graduate. If you train him well, he will be more than enough to be your right-hand man. When something happens, you will feel more at ease using him than outsiders."
Zheng Huaixin smiled and said yes.
Lin Jiefang was so excited by those words that he spent several days thinking about how to get the position of factory director's secretary and use the director and Zheng Huaixin as stepping stones to get into the municipal office.
During his time as the factory director's secretary, he put in extraordinary effort, was conscientious and responsible in his work, and prepared all the materials the factory director needed, never letting the factory director's words fall through.
He can prepare everything the factory manager can think of and everything the factory manager can't. No matter when, the factory manager is always available. He solves problems more decisively and efficiently than ever before.
The factory manager liked him very much, and at the end of his second month in office, he promoted him to be his secretary, breaking with precedent.
Lin Jiefang was promoted from a staff member to the factory director's secretary.
Later, he married the director's daughter.
He Taohua took out all the savings Su Youfu had given her. Through Zheng Huaixin's connections, she managed to snag a large courtyard house, had new furniture made, and had the director's daughter personally inspect and approve several major pieces before they were delivered to the new house.
Su Youfu took a lot of the hard-earned money that Li Banxia had saved up from her and gave Lin Jiefang a grand wedding.
Li Banxia and her children were coaxed by Su Youfu and He Taohua, and were busy from morning till night at the wedding like helpers. In the end, they were dismissed after receiving a few kind words.
When toasting, apart from the eldest son and his wife who remained neither humble nor arrogant, the other sons of the Su family looked up at him with envy and jealousy. Lin Jiefang couldn't have been happier.
Having become the director's son-in-law and achieving great success in his career, Lin Jiefang was enjoying immense popularity.
After serving as the factory director's secretary for a period of time, Zheng Huaixin, the wife's maternal uncle, was promoted by Yan Shi and became his deputy secretary-general.
The municipal government organized a mobilization meeting for people from all walks of life. Zheng Huaixin, citing a shortage of manpower, transferred many secretaries from his factories to the municipal government.
After the conference, Lin Jiefang and the secretary of the deputy director of the textile factory were kept in the municipal office to continue helping out because of their excellent performance.
Later, the two were transferred together to the secretary's office in Yan City, a process that went by so smoothly it was astonishing.
The two worked for Zheng Huaixin. Six months later, the secretary who had been transferred from the textile factory was dismissed due to a data error, and Lin Jiefang gradually became Zheng Huaixin's confidant.
Almost all the important matters and tasks under his jurisdiction would go through Lin Jiefang's hands.
A year later, Zheng Huaixin ousted the secretary-general and was promoted from deputy to head, and Lin Jiefang, his confidant, became Zheng Huaixin's deputy.
The real deputy secretary-general who was promoted was suppressed, schemed against, and framed by the two, making frequent mistakes in his work. He was soon discovered by Yan Shi and directly removed.
Yan Shi asked Zheng Huaixin to recommend someone else.
Zheng Huaixin recommended Lin Jiefang based on the principle of recommending worthy individuals regardless of personal relationships.
Yan Shi learned from Xu's father that Lin Jiefang was a truly capable person and had personally investigated him. He felt that although Lin appeared humble, he was actually very ambitious, and reminded Zheng Huaixin to pay close attention to him.
Zheng Huaixin didn't take it to heart.
After Lin Jiefang took office, he used the same methods he used against the deputy secretary-general to frame Zheng Huaixin. He even produced evidence that Zheng Huaixin had deliberately drugged Xu Ying to make her infertile in order to get the Xu family and Yan Shi to promote him. After the Xu family learned the truth, they abandoned Zheng Huaixin, Xu Ying divorced him, and Yan Shi treated him with utter contempt.
Without anyone to help him, Zheng Huaixin's previous underhanded dealings and bribery were exposed, and he was personally sent to prison by Yan Shi.
After Lin Jiefang became the secretary-general second only to the emperor, he quickly divorced his first wife and did not keep the children.
Yan Shi and Xu's father felt that he was cunning and wanted to replace him.
Before they could make any big moves, Lin Jiefang discovered them.
Lin Jiefang acted first and reported later, exposing the collusion between Yan Shi and Xu's father, and the fact that Yan Shi had promoted Zheng Huaixin through nepotism and illegal means. When the higher-ups came down to investigate, Lin Jiefang, through Zheng Huaixin, obtained several pieces of evidence of embezzlement and bribery and framed Yan Shi for them.
Yan Shi was speechless and unable to defend himself, and was forced to step down.
The higher authorities reassigned a new top leader to manage the city, and Lin Jiefang continued to serve as secretary-general. He helped the new leader achieve many political accomplishments and met the leader's daughter at a gathering.
The two secretly met, and after the top leader fell seriously ill for no apparent reason, he recommended Lin Jiefang to temporarily take over as the top leader and handle affairs, based on his daughter's advice.
A year later, the top leader retired due to illness, and Lin Jiefang was officially promoted to the top leader despite not meeting the usual requirements.
Not long after, he married the best friend of the daughter of the former top leader, the granddaughter of a founding father, thus firmly securing his position as the top leader in Beijing.
At that time, he was not yet thirty years old.
He calculated that with the help of his father-in-law and his wife's grandfather, he could rise even higher, and it wouldn't be impossible for him to climb to a higher level by stepping on his father-in-law's shoulders.
In contrast, the Su brothers...
The Su couple were teachers their whole lives, tending their small plot of land and earning a meager living through hard work.
Li Banxia even lost her only twin sons.
The mother and son, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, almost became enemies.
Su Lao Er and Su Lao San, one is a reckless scoundrel and the other is a glutton and a lazybones.
The wives he married were all incredibly difficult to deal with.
Su Xiaosi was the most successful of all his siblings, but unfortunately, his wife was no pushover.
Her sons and daughters-in-law were all watching Su Banxia as she leeched off others.
Li Banxia worked like an ox without a moment's rest. In his youth, he worked several jobs to support his children. In his old age, he opened a medicinal cuisine restaurant to earn hard-earned money for his children and grandchildren. In the end, he died of illness, driven to his death by his children's anger...
Lin Jiefang laughed heartily, laughing at himself... He woke up.
He opened his eyes to find himself in prison; the images and experiences he had just had were just a beautiful dream.
He stared at the iron bars for a long time, wondering if his life would have been just like in his dream, if he hadn't gone against Li Banxia and swallowed his anger instead of framing Su Laosan.
Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs" in life.
he……
There will never be another chance.
Later, whenever he felt he couldn't go on, Lin Jiefang would think of that beautiful dream, and day after day, he would endure it in regret, like a walking corpse...
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