I slept with my sister's classmate, and she turned out to be my boss.

The next morning.

Chen Yuanda walked into Hu Yuheng's office, sat down in the chair opposite the desk, and said:

"Although the Australian route has been cut off, overseas pursuit is not the foundation of this case."

The foundation lies within the country, in the provincial capital, and on the evidence that has already been established.

Zhao Yike is overseas, while her father is in the country.

Is this case feasible?

It doesn't depend on whether Zhao Yike comes back or not; it depends on whether we have enough evidence.

Hu Yuheng tidied up the stack of materials in front of him and continued:

"I plan to have Dapeng re-examine all the evidence in the Zeng Zhiyuan case and create a complete timeline."

The materials for each line were all available, but they had never been put together.

If reports need to be submitted to higher authorities, they cannot consist solely of scattered testimonies and logs.

There needs to be a timeline that connects all the steps.

Chen Yuanda nodded: "Tell him now. After the timeline is finished, let me review it. When I go to Beijing, I'll take it with me to show Secretary Song."

Hu Yuheng responded, "Okay."

Chen Yuanda stood up and walked out.

Hu Yuheng sat for a while and then dialed Chen Dapeng's number.

The phone rang twice before being answered.

"Director Hu?"

"Dapeng, come to my office."

Chen Dapeng put down the materials in his hand, stood up and walked a few steps to the door of Hu Yuheng's office.

The door was open, and he knocked on the doorframe.

Hu Yuheng didn't look up:

"Come in and sit down. There's something I need you to do."

Chen Dapeng sat down opposite her and waited for her to continue.

"You are responsible for reviewing all the evidence in the Zeng Zhiyuan case."

Starting with Sun Desheng's confession, and continuing through Gu Xinming, You Yuanming, Liu Yuanzhou, Han Youde, and Qian Yongming, all testimonies and materials are arranged in chronological order to form a complete timeline.

Mark the key points and the corresponding verified materials to create a compiled report for submission.

She paused, then looked up at him:

"Can you answer?"

Chen Dapeng nodded: "Yes. When is it due?"

"The sooner the better, but there's no hard deadline. Show it to me first after you're done, and then have Director Chen review it."

Chen Dapeng stood up: "Okay, I'll do it as soon as possible."

He returned to the main office and first retrieved all the relevant materials from the filing cabinet—

Sun Desheng's supplementary statement, Gu Xinming's testimony, You Yuanming's memorandum, Liu Yuanzhou's written testimony, Han Youde's statement regarding the funds for purchasing the house, Qian Yongming's approval records, and Wei Yuan's summary of his phone call records.

He laid them out on the table in chronological order.

The first stack is placed on the far left.

The last stack is placed on the far right.

The middle section is arranged in order of year and month.

Then he sat down, opened a new blank document, and typed the starting year on the first line.

He started entering data from the first time point in Sun Desheng's supplementary materials.

Each time an entry is entered, a checkmark is placed on the corresponding material.

After Sun Desheng finished recording the materials.

He switched to Gu Xinming's testimony, extracted the relevant time points one by one and filled them into a table, and then checked whether these time points overlapped or contradicted Sun Desheng's materials.

The overlapping parts are marked in green.

The suspicious parts are marked in red.

The parts that need to be verified are marked in yellow.

You Yuanming's memorandum is more detailed than the previous two.

Each entry corresponds to a specific date and scenario.

He spent a lot of time meticulously entering each entry into its corresponding position on the timeline.

The time descriptions in some of the entries are rather vague.

He compared several cross-referenced materials before confirming the general scope.

A note in parentheses was added next to it: "Date estimated from other materials."

Liu Yuanzhou's written testimony is less informative than the previous three, but it provides a clear timeline for the flow of funds.

He inserted that line into the corresponding position in the middle of the timeline.

The contents of the same day as You Yuanming's memorandum corroborate each other.

Han Youde's confession involved a sum of money for a house purchase, and the timing was later than all the other materials.

He scrolled down a long section of the form before finding the corresponding field, filled it in, and wrote next to it, "Han Youde confessed—"

The funds were transferred by Zeng Zhiyuan through an intermediary.

Qian Yongming's approval records and Wei Yuan's call record summaries were processed last.

He compared the approval time and the call time and put them into a timeline to confirm the number of days between them.

Several places were marked in parentheses with "less than a week apart, further verification is recommended".

After all the recordings are finished.

He went through the timeline from beginning to end—

From Article 1 to Article 137, there are no gaps or unconnected blank sections.

He marked the cross-validation items in green, which made up the majority of the entries.

The items marked in red that are pending verification are few.

It appears only in two separate locations, accompanied by brief notes.

He saved the document, then printed a copy, and took the printout to Hu Yuheng's office.

"Director Hu, the data has been compiled."

Hu Yuheng looked up, stunned for two seconds: "So fast?"

Chen Dapeng smiled and said, "I've looked at these materials many times before, so it saved me a lot of time when organizing them."

He spoke very modestly.

Hu Yuheng didn't ask any further questions. He picked up the materials and glanced at the page number.

More than a hundred entries, page after page filled with them.

The time and corresponding materials are listed clearly.

She spent more than twenty minutes going through each item one by one.

No questions were asked or any problems were pointed out during the process.

I only paused halfway through flipping through the page and folded a corner of it.

That was a cross-section marked in green, confirming the point.

Sun Desheng's confession and Gu Xinming's testimony both point to the same event on the same date.

The two are less than a week apart.

She returned the printout to Chen Dapeng:

"Take a look at it, Director Chen."

Chen Dapeng took him back, then turned and left the office.

He paused for a moment at the door of Chen Yuanda's office; the door was open.

Chen Yuanda is on the phone.

Chen Dapeng didn't go in; he stood at the door for a while.

Chen Yuanda knocked on the door frame only after he hung up the phone.

Chen Yuanda looked up and saw the printed document in his hand: "Is the timeline finished?"

Chen Dapeng went in and placed it on his desk:

"It's done. Director Hu has reviewed it."

Chen Yuanda opened the printed document, paused on the page with Hu Yuheng's folded corner, and then read the whole document from beginning to end.

Upon seeing the last line, he closed the printout and placed it on the corner of the table.

"That's fine. You can go back now."

Chen Dapeng responded and turned to leave.

……

in the afternoon.

Chen Yuanda took the timeline material and went to the capital again.

Upon arriving at the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, he went directly to Song Huai'an's office.

He gave a brief report on the results of the fugitive repatriation efforts in Southeast Asia and Australia.

Then the timeline was placed in front of Song Huai'an:

"This is the complete timeline of the Zeng Zhiyuan case, from the starting point of Sun Desheng's supplementary confession to the last entry of Qian Yongming's approval record, with corresponding supporting materials for every step in between."

Song Huai'an opened the timeline, but didn't look at each entry in detail.

My eyes first fell on the distribution of green and red markings.

He looked at it for almost ten minutes, then closed the printout:

"We can prepare to close the net on Zhao Zhengping's side."

Chen Yuanda nodded: "The provincial capital has already made the relevant preparations."