Arranged marriage, love blossoms; a fiercely devoted soldier dotes on her alone.

"Knock knock knock".

Xiao Zhan knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Bai Zexiang's authoritative voice rang out.

"squeak!"

Xiao Zhan pushed open the door and walked in side by side with Xia Keke.

Bai Zexiang sat behind a large mahogany desk, while Xiao Zhan and Xia Keke stood straight as knives in front of it.

A handsome guy who's even more handsome than the male models in magazines.

A woman who is ten times more beautiful than a beauty pageant winner.

The two of them standing there doing nothing are pleasing to the eye.

Bai Zexiang, sitting in the boss's chair, asked, "Xiao Zhan, how did your duel with Zhang Xiangdong go?"

Xiao Zhan smiled and said, "Minister Bai, let me explain the whole story to you."

Bai Zexiang nodded, then listened quietly as Xiao Zhan recounted his fight with Zhang Xiangdong.

After hearing this, Bai Zexiang smiled and said, "Hahaha, that's really satisfying. I know Zhang Xiangdong quite well. He does have some real skills. When he was young, he was full of vigor and dared to fight. He was a well-known workaholic in the police force. He rose from an ordinary criminal police officer to a section chief in the National Central Bureau of Interpol, and then step by step became the deputy director of the Central Bureau."

"Since he became deputy director, he has been exposed to more power and his horizons have broadened. He has become bolder and gradually lost himself in the glitz and glamour. Since he got close to that person, he has become even more arrogant and conceited, thinking that there is nothing in the world that he cannot do."

"Xiao Zhan, you must always be vigilant and pay attention to Zhang Xiangdong's every move. I suspect that he is only temporarily compromising."

"After all, Zhang Xiangdong is no ordinary person. He holds power and would not be easily manipulated or controlled by others, much less bow down to others. That's not like his character."

Xiao Zhan said confidently, "Based on my understanding of Zhang Xiangdong, he shouldn't dare to play along with me. He readily agreed to cooperate with me in staging a grand drama. Besides, even if he dares to betray me, it doesn't matter; he won't be able to find any fault with my mission."

"The incriminating materials I mentioned are all true. As long as I hand them over to Wang Ming'an, Zhang Xiangdong will definitely be forced to work at the sewing machine. Zhang Xiangdong knows the stakes involved, so he has no choice but to listen to me and agree to my demands. Moreover, the information he provided is basically consistent with the information I have, which means he is not lying."

Bai Zexiang nodded and said, "You have a firm grip on his weaknesses, so he naturally wouldn't dare to turn against you easily."

"Zhang Xiangdong has always been a smart man. On one hand, he can take a gamble and hope to live to old age; on the other hand, once he goes in, he will lose everything completely, and everything he has gained will vanish in an instant."

"Zhang Xiangdong will make his own choice regarding where to go."

Xiao Zhan: "Yes, I left Zhang Xiangdong no way out. He either listens to me, or I'll send him to jail."

Bai Zexiang picked up a cigarette from the table and tossed one to Xiao Zhan, saying, "Xiao Zhan, Xia Keke, do you know why I called you two over here?"

Xiao Zhan puffed out his chest and said, "Is it about Liu Shiyuan?"

Xia Keke was good at reading people and had been working in the system for seven or eight years. Seeing that Bai Zexiang didn't show any expression when he said Xiao Zhan, she said, "Minister Bai, I guess it's not about Liu Shiyuan. After all, this matter has been taken over by the military, and it's not convenient for our National Security Bureau to get involved now."

Bai Zexiang: "That's true."

Xia Keke then asked, "Does Minister Bai have a new task for Xiao Zhan and me to carry out?"

"Clatter."

Xiao Zhan stepped forward and lit Bai Zexiang's cigarette with a lighter.

Then he said, "Minister Bai, please feel free to ask if you need anything."

"call……."

Bai Zexiang slowly exhaled a puff of smoke and said unhurriedly, "Director Xia's analysis is very accurate. It is true that the case of Liu Shiyuan has been ordered to be transferred to Deputy Chief of Staff Wan. However, have you forgotten a few key figures, such as Qin Hanwen, Ishida Mako, Chen Hongwei, Xu Jiaying, and a group of other detainees?"

Xiao Zhan didn't understand what Bai Zexiang meant.

Xiao Zhan always asks questions when he doesn't understand something.

So he asked, "Minister Bai, could you explain more clearly? After we completed the preliminary investigation and obtained relevant evidence, we transferred these people to the relevant departments for further investigation and follow-up, and then proceeded with the judicial process."

"Could we have extracted high-value information from these people again? For example, the Sakura Society, which Ishida Mako works for? Or perhaps another piece from Liu Shiyuan's chessboard has reappeared?"

"Or perhaps some bigwigs in the central government have ties to Project Mole, and now this shocking revelation has surfaced?"

Bai Zexiang shook his head and said, "As I just said, all cases involving Liu Shiyuan are to be handled by Wan Chongshan."

Xiao Zhan: "So what will happen to these people?"

Bai Zexiang: "Let me tell you the truth. Now it has been found that these people are involved in a lot of money. The higher-ups want to get all the money out of these people and hand it over to the national treasury. The current economic situation is not good, and the economy is declining. The higher-ups' intention is to release people if they pay money, and to imprison them if they don't. Everything depends on how much money they pay to determine their sentence."

Xiao Zhan was utterly speechless upon hearing this. How could they do such a thing? No matter how bad the environment or how poor the economy is, they can't joke about national laws.

Those who are guilty must be punished.

Paying money to buy criminal justice.

This is truly eye-opening – a small knife can be used to cut off someone's butt.

Xia Keke glanced at Xiao Zhan and then said, "Minister Bai, is there something you're aware of here?"

Bai Zexiang asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"

Xia Keke: "Qin Hanwen is Qin Huanhuan's biological father. After Qin Hanwu died, Qin Hanwen became the head of the Qin family. A few days ago, Qin Hanwen bequeathed all of the Qin family's assets to Qin Huanhuan. The lawyer is currently processing the paperwork."

Bai Zexiang looked at Xiao Zhan with some surprise and asked, "Is Qin Huanhuan really Qin Hanwen's biological daughter?"

Xiao Zhan nodded, then took out his phone, opened the paternity test report stored inside, and handed it to Bai Zexiang: "Minister Bai, this is the paternity test report."

Bai Zexiang did not reach out to take it, but only glanced at the appraisal summary below;

"Qin Hanwen is Qin Huanhuan's biological father."

Bai Zexiang looked up at Xiao Zhan and asked, "This matter involves your father-in-law and wife. Will you request to recuse yourself?"

Xiao Zhan: "I am applying for recusal in accordance with relevant regulations."

After Xiao Zhan finished speaking, he turned and walked out of the room. Ma Feng saw him and went up to him, calling out in a low voice, "Brother Zhan, why are you out?"

Xiao Zhan didn't hide anything and smiled, "It involves my personal matters, so I requested to recuse myself."

Ma Feng thought for a moment and said, "Brother Zhan, I need to go back to my hometown in a couple of days."

Xiao Zhan: "Is something wrong back home? Are our parents alright?"

Ma Feng looked hesitant...

Xiao Zhan sensed something was wrong and said in a deep voice, "Is there something you can't tell me?"

Ma Feng's expression turned serious as he said, "My dad called and said that our old house is going to be demolished, but the village chief said that the house we built before didn't have a planning permit or a property certificate, so it's an illegal building and we won't get any compensation."

Xiao Zhan: "I remember your brother once told me that the house in our rural hometown is on homestead land, and we only have a homestead land ownership registration certificate. How did it become an illegal building?"

Ma Feng: "I don't know either. My dad called and said that my mom went to reason with the village chief and was pushed down by the village chief's wife, breaking her shinbone. So I have to go back and see what happened."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhan flew into a rage and said, "Is your village chief some kind of local tyrant? Ma Feng, I'll go back with you then."

"Damn, are all village chiefs this powerful?"