In name only, I, Gao Yuliang, will sink Handong at worst.

Gyeongju Airport.

A plane from Beijing slowly landed.

Zhao Xiaohui wore sunglasses, had her hair styled in large, wavy curls, and wore a matte black mid-length cashmere coat, accentuated only by a thin leather belt at the waist. She paired it with high-waisted cigarette trousers and low-heeled knee-high boots.

Although she has aged, true beauty lies in character, not just appearance. The woman in front of me not only looks better than her peers, but also has an exceptionally refined demeanor. Anyone who didn't know her might mistake her for a female CEO.

Zhao Xiaohui was pulling a suitcase when she took out her cell phone and made a call.

"Xinjian, I'm here. Where are you?"

Beside me, another voice said, "Are you waiting for the bus?"

"Hey, Chen Hai, where are you? I'm at Dongzhou Airport in Wuhan right now. Are you coming to pick me up?" Hou Liangping dialed the phone, sounding a little impatient.

An Audi A6 pulled up next to Zhao Xiaohui. Liu Xinjian got out of the driver's seat, opened the door, and let Zhao Xiaohui into the back seat.

However, Zhao Xiaohui did not sit in the back, but in the passenger seat.

He used to put the box in the trunk.

"Why did you come all by yourself? Don't you have a driver?" Zhao Xiaohui immediately pulled down her seatbelt and buckled it. She hadn't expected Liu Xinjian to come and pick her up in his own car.

"Oh, it's Sunday today. There wasn't anything planned, but my driver's mother is sick, so I sent him home to see his family." Liu Xinjian slowly started the car and merged into the traffic.

Hou Liangping looked at the woman who had just been making a phone call next to him and wondered why she seemed somewhat familiar.

A Toyota pulled up in front of Hou Liangping, the window rolled down. "Monkey, what are you doing? Why are you spacing out? Weren't you just urging me to come over?"

"It's nothing, I just felt like I saw someone I knew."

After putting his suitcase away, Hou Liangping sat in the back seat, acting more like Chen Hai's superior than his brother.

Chen Hai's nemesis is the monkey, not anyone else.

"Why didn't our teacher, Mr. Gao, protect us students? And now he's even got us both demoted!"

"In my opinion, he's just a hypocrite, and he's brought over the same old ways he used when he was teaching at Han University. All this talk about avoiding suspicion and such!" Hou Liangping was very dissatisfied with Gao Yuliang. Although the punishment was related to Sha Ruijin, who could blame him when Sha Ruijin was his ally?

He couldn't scold Sha Ruijin, and Chen Hai in front of him seemed to have a connection with Sha Ruijin as well.

"Chen Hai, say something!"

Chen Hai didn't want to join Hou Liangping in criticizing Gao Yuliang, so he just nodded and then tried to change the subject.

"Monkey, what are your plans for coming to Handong this time?" Chen Hai knew that Hou Liangping had reported to the Anti-Corruption Bureau's First Division. The First Division of the Anti-Corruption Bureau was originally led by Lu Yike, but now it was headed by Deputy Director Li Ruotie.

Hou Liangping came over to serve as the deputy director of the first division.

"I received the news. Someone reported it and provided evidence. This is a big case. Don't worry, you'll definitely get credit for it." Hou Liangping said confidently.

If it were someone else, they wouldn't dare sit like that.

Like Hou Liangping, Chen Hai was filled with a sense of justice. It could be said that he disregarded everything else for the sake of justice, and had no political rules or regulations in mind.

Chen Hai was also a little excited and asked, "What kind of case is it? Is it big?"

"It's huge. It's enough for the two of us to get our disciplinary actions removed and even get promoted." Hou Liangping believed that if he could handle Li Dakang, he would definitely be promoted.

"Can you tell me what's going on? Who exactly are we targeting? We need to have a goal!"

"I can't tell you now. We have to wipe them all out in one fell swoop. Last time we were trying to arrest Ding Yizhen, right? If you had just arrested him directly, none of this would have happened. Now Ding Yizhen is dead. He was involved with quite a few corrupt officials. What can we do?"

"Back then, I ran into Old Ji, our Chief Prosecutor Ji Changming. If it weren't for him, I would have been arrested on the spot. Rank matters, and he was my superior, several ranks higher. I was a department-level official at the time, while he was a vice-minister. I couldn't just go against him, could I? Monkey, would you dare to go against your superior?"

Hou Liangping pictured Qin Siyuan saying to him, "I'm not telling you this for you to think about, but for you to tell Zhong Xiaoai."

"I'm telling you this not so you can argue, but so you can go back and report to Zhong Xiaoai. You, now, immediately, get out of here."

Qin Siyuan slammed his fist on the table and roared at Hou Liangping. He had been cowering like a quail, wishing he could bury his head in the ground. Now he couldn't back down.

Qin Siyuan is a vice-ministerial level official; how could he dare to go against him?

Hou Liangping stated directly, "What wouldn't I dare to do? What I uphold is justice. I have never backed down from anything that violates my principles."

It was only because Chen Hai was driving that he didn't notice Hou Liangping's appearance; otherwise, he could have seen Hou Liangping's fierce but inwardly weak demeanor.

Liu Xinjian's office at Handong Oil & Gas Group.

"If someone hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that Zhao Ruilong had caused such a huge mess, and I wouldn't have known he had done so many stupid things. You've spoiled Ruilong too much." Zhao Xiaohui looked at the 3 billion yuan that Zhao Ruilong had transferred from Handong Oil and Gas Group.

She felt as if she had directly killed her own brother. Did her father send Liu Xinjian to take control of Handong Oil and Gas Group in order to have Zhao Ruilong transfer funds?

The goal was to firmly control the Handong Oil and Gas Group and then use it to boost the political achievements of the Zhao family, not to let Zhao Ruilong empty the purse strings.

Liu Xinjian, how would I know if this was Zhao Ruilong's idea or the old Party Secretary's idea? How would I know? Zhao Ruilong is Zhao Lichun's only son, so can't he also represent the Zhao family?

Liu Xinjian: "I was wrong. I misunderstood Secretary Zhao's meaning."

Zhao Xiaohui knew that the fault did not lie with Liu Xinjian, but was entirely her own doing. "It's not your fault. I will return the money to you. However, I need your guidance on which channels to use and which company accounts to use for the money."

Liu Xinjian began explaining to Zhao Xiaohui how each transaction was transferred and how it should be transferred back. Liu Xinjian was very adept at these channels; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to do this kind of work for nearly a decade without being discovered.

After all, state-owned enterprises like these are audited every year.

Three hours later, Zhao Xiaohui left Handong Oil and Gas Group and went to Shanshui Manor to take over as president of Shanshui Manor.