From Construction Site Apprentice to Infrastructure Legend

At sixteen, Deng Xiaoqian became a construction site apprentice laborer. With no education and no background, he drifted among muddy work sheds. The workers around him accepted their fate and sold their brute strength, mocking him with cold sarcasm, yet he pored over engineering theory under the white incandescent lamp late at night, using formulas as his blade and data as his armor. Having personally witnessed the painful lesson of a slope collapse causing tens of millions in losses, he came to deeply understand that no detail in engineering is trivial, and that data is life and death. On the Gobi wasteland, he stood against the old-timers' empiricism, walking through wind and sand to re-survey, using measured data to correct rough construction practices. In a crisis, he was assigned to an overseas billion-yuan infrastructure project, where he encountered workplace exclusion and malicious obstruction from foreign parties. He built his own standardized construction system, stood firm against foreign supervisors; gathered complete evidence, and through international dispute arbitration recovered a huge compensation for the project. Moving through foreign-related projects in multiple countries, facing European and American technical barriers and arrogant obstruction, he took up his pen to calculate and benchmark against specifications clause by clause, crushing a host of overseas authorities with hardcore computation. After twenty-five years of trials and storms, having won across the industry and seen through its chaos, at forty-one he declined a high salary and retired to his hometown, using a lifetime of engineering expertise to personally build a flawless courtyard compound. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: From Construction Site Apprentice to Infrastructure Legend — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠