At the Pinnacle of Power: The Female Leader and Her Chief Advisor

If you're in the system and want to climb the ladder, you either need a powerful backer or you need to be capable.

Feng Zhikun, on the other hand, has neither of those qualities.

If nothing unexpected happens, becoming a district head will be the end of his career, and he probably won't be able to advance any further until he retires.

However, Lu Ming has a way to help him take it a step further.

The solution was simple: have him pledge allegiance to Wang Yanchun, the full-time deputy secretary of the municipal party committee.

If it's a normal process of seeking refuge, then it's naturally quite difficult.

After all, Secretary Wang doesn't need a district head like you who has no backing and no ability.

Therefore, if you want to gain Secretary Wang's approval and have him think of you when there are opportunities for promotion in the future, there is only one way.

A timely help!

And now there is such an opportunity to provide timely help.

With Song Chuhe's death, the mayor's position became vacant.

The two strongest contenders for the mayoral position are Executive Vice Mayor Jiang Ling and Wang Yanchun, the full-time Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee.

Normally, Jiang Ling has a higher chance of becoming mayor.

However, if something were to happen to Jiang Ling during this critical period, then the mayor's position would undoubtedly belong to Wang Yanchun.

This unexpected turn of events was Lu Ming's way of preparing a pledge of allegiance for Feng Zhikun to join Secretary Wang!

This pledge of allegiance belongs to Zhu Chaoyang.

Zhu Chaoyang is also the vice mayor and works for Jiangling. If he falls from power at this time, it will inevitably affect Jiangling and cause him to miss out on the mayor's seat.

The key to taking down Zhu Chaoyang was the ten million yuan that Li Wen had just received and the pinhole camera that she had just installed.

The cameras were installed to film Liang Fei and Zhu Chaoyang, while the ten million was used to frame them.

Lu Ming only needs to hand over the video of Zhu Chaoyang and Liang Fei, as well as the evidence of Zhu Chaoyang accepting bribes, to Feng Zhikun, who will then pass it on to Wang Yanchun. Then Zhu Chaoyang will be doomed.

At that time, Wang Yanchun could naturally take over as mayor, and in return, promote Feng Zhikun to vice mayor after his term expires.

Once Feng Zhikun takes office, then this down-on-his-luck secretary will finally have a place to stay.

"Now, all we have to do is wait to get the money!"

Lu Ming wasn't worried at all that Feng Zhikun would disagree.

After all, few people could resist the temptation of being promoted to vice mayor.

In the evening, Lu Ming received another call from Li Wen.

Li Wen has already rented the house and hidden away the ten million yuan.

To express her gratitude to Lu Ming, she wanted to treat him to a meal.

To avoid arousing Li Wen's suspicion, Lu Ming did not mention the location of the rented apartment.

For the next few days, Lu Ming stayed with Li and Song Chuhe's parents to handle Song Chuhe's funeral arrangements.

Meanwhile, Lu Ming was also secretly following Li Wen, trying to find out where she rented a room.

Unfortunately, Li Wen has been very well-behaved these past few days, hardly going anywhere except home.

However, Lu Ming was not in a hurry, because a fox will eventually show its tail.

Finally, the day after Song Chuhe's burial, Li Wen could no longer contain herself.

Lu Ming drove after her to an old residential area. Li Wen parked her car downstairs in an apartment building and then went inside.

When she came out, she was carrying a black handbag.

The handbag was stuffed full, clearly filled with bundles of cash.

Lu Ming was overjoyed; he had found it!

But Lu Ming soon realized something was wrong, because Li Wen kept putting money into the car.

What's going on?

Is she planning to run away?

No, we absolutely cannot let her get away!

If she takes the money and runs away, then my plan to break the deadlock will be doomed!

We need to find a way to keep her!

In a flash, Lu Ming quickly came up with a solution.

……

Ten million yuan in cash, which weighs over two hundred kilograms.

Li Wen was already panting heavily after carrying the load four or five times.

She was taking a short break by the car when the phone rang.

Looking at Lu Ming's phone, Li Wen hesitated, wondering whether she should answer it.

In the end, she pressed the answer button.

"Hey, Xiao Lu, what's up?"

"How much compensation did Chairman Qian give you?"

Li Wen didn't react for a moment and asked, "What? Ten million? Didn't you already know that?"

Li Wen felt somewhat confused.

At this moment, Lu Ming spoke up on the phone: "I'm talking about how Chairman Qian asked you to seduce me. How much did he pay you?"

Li Wen didn't know why he suddenly brought this up, so she thought for a moment and said, "Five million."

"Okay, give me half!"

"What?"

"Tell Director Qian that I've taken the bait and that she should give you the money."

"this……"

"Madam! This money is practically free, why not take it? If I don't cooperate, you won't get a single penny. I'm only asking for half, is that too much to ask?"

"You've misunderstood, that's not what I meant, I..."

Li Wen wanted to explain, but she didn't want to tell Lu Ming that she was planning to run away.

"Alright, Madam, now that Mayor Song's case has been ruled a suicide out of guilt, my political career is over, so this money is very important to me!"

Li Wen said, "But... Chairman Qian asked me to seduce you because of what Song Chuhe left behind. He won't give me money without that."

Lu Ming was silent for a moment, then said, "Let's talk in person. Where are you now? I'll come find you!"

"I...I'm outside."

Send me your location, I'll drive there.

"No need, no need." Li Wen certainly didn't dare let Lu Ming come over, so she said, "Here's what we'll do, you go book a room, then send me the address, and I'll come find you."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, Li Wen glanced at the tote bag in the trunk, gritted her teeth, and continued carrying it to the room.

Seeing Li Wen put the money back, Lu Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Li Wen has been stabilized for the time being.

After returning the last handbag, Li Wen drove away.

As soon as she left, Lu Ming put on the prepared hat and mask and got out of the car.

Although the neighborhood was very old and had no surveillance cameras, it was always better to be safe than sorry, and Lu Ming didn't want anything to go wrong at such a critical time.

Walking into the building, Lu Ming saw the rusty security door and took out a wire to try to open it.

Unfortunately, my skills aren't up to par, and I couldn't open it even after trying for a while.

So Lu Ming decisively left, intending to get the key from Li Wen.

Half an hour later, Lu Ming drove to a hotel in a remote location, checked in, and sent the address to Li Wen.

Li Wen arrived around 10 a.m.

As soon as Lu Ming opened the door, Li Wen pounced on him, catching him completely off guard. He quickly pushed the delicate body away and asked, "Madam, what are you doing?"

"Didn't you say yourself that I had successfully seduced him?"

Li Wen temporarily gave up on running away, not only because she wanted the five million from Director Qian, but also because she wanted to see how powerful Lu Ming was.

Lu Ming sat down on the edge of the bed and said, "That's just a story Dong told to swindle money. We don't need to make it real."

Li Wen sat down beside him, bringing a whiff of her perfume, and placed her hand on Lu Ming's lap, saying, "Do you think Chairman Qian is a fool? That he'll believe everything I say?"

"He won't believe me without video evidence."

Are you going to film a video?

Lu Ming firmly refused: "No, we can't film this!"

This kind of smear campaign absolutely cannot exist!

"If we don't film it, then Chairman Qian definitely won't believe it."

Lu Ming said, "Didn't you say that Chairman Qian wanted what Mayor Song left behind? The video and stuff shouldn't be important to him."

Li Wen understood his implication: Song Chuhe seemed to have indeed left something behind, and it was in Lu Ming's possession.

"Do you have that thing?"

Lu Ming confessed, "No, but... I can have it!"