A person's starting point is very important if they want to succeed.
The individuals who break free from environmental and platform constraints, using their own strength to achieve greatness, always arouse envy and admiration, but legends are, after all, a minority.
The library manager can create miracles because he is himself, not because he is a library manager.
From a broader and more distant perspective, the reality is: the higher one's starting point, the easier it is to create and change things in a finite lifetime.
After Achilles caused a stir, Cheng Daqi had always understood him according to this logic. He was a young man with an extremely high starting point, in his thirties, with a transcendent status, rich experience, and in the prime of life.
He stood at the very top of this empire, allied with a part of the true controllers of the empire, and chose an extremely good timing to launch a top-down assault.