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

Since becoming Yu Wei's secretary, Zhou Lin gets up at seven o'clock every day to get ready, leaves home promptly at seven-thirty, and arrives at the municipal government at exactly eight o'clock.

During this time, she also figured out Yu Wei's schedule, which was usually around 8:30.

At that moment, she had just finished cleaning the office and thoughtfully poured Yu Wei a cup of hot tea after she sat down.

But today, when Zhou Lin arrived at the municipal government, she saw a van parked in front of the government building, surrounded by a crowd of people.

Curious, she walked over and discovered that there was a coffin inside the carriage!

What... what's going on?

Zhou Lin thought she was seeing things, so she rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't mistaken.

The coffin lid was open, and inside lay a little old woman.

In front of the coffin, a woman dressed in mourning clothes was sitting on the ground, holding a laptop in her hands, staring at the screen and typing away, seemingly working.

Zhou Lin looked closely and realized that the person was actually Zhang Yannan.

She instantly realized something was wrong, quickly walked to the side, and took out her phone to call Li Ping.

Li Ping had just left home when he received the call.

When he learned that Zhang Yannan had actually blocked the city government gate with a coffin, his expression was as if he had eaten shit.

"Damn it, this bitch is trying to kill me!"

He was in a great hurry and floored the gas pedal, but unfortunately it was rush hour and the roads were completely jammed.

As more and more people go to work, more and more people gather in front of the municipal government building.

After Lu Ming got out of the car, he saw that the gate was already surrounded by a huge crowd, and the coffin was particularly conspicuous.

He pretended to know nothing and walked over to Zhou Lin, asking, "What happened?"

Zhou Lin looked embarrassed and said, "I don't know either. It was already like this when I arrived."

At this moment, a black official car drove into the parking lot. Lu Ming glanced at the license plate and saw that it belonged to Jiang Ling, the executive vice mayor.

Jiang Ling got out of the car, noticed the situation, and walked over.

The crowd automatically made way for them and greeted them.

Upon seeing the coffin and Zhang Yannan kneeling on the ground in mourning clothes, even Mayor Jiang, who had seen many storms, was taken aback.

"What's going on?"

Clearly, what happened in the secretariat yesterday did not reach her ears.

An insider hurriedly explained, and after hearing it, Jiang Ling's face turned ashen as she dialed Wang Qiang's number.

"Wang Qiang, where are you now?"

"I'm on my way to the city government. Is there anything I can help you with, Mayor Jiang?"

From Jiang Ling's tone, Wang Qiang could clearly tell that something was wrong.

"How long will it take to arrive?"

"Soon, there will be two more intersections."

"Hurry up and come here!"

Jiang Ling put down her phone, her beautiful face clouded with gloom.

It's outrageous that a dignified municipal government would have its entrance blocked by someone pulling a coffin!

Before long, Wang Qiang arrived and saw hundreds of people gathered in front of the municipal government building as soon as he got out of the car.

Although we don't know what happened yet, it's clear that something bad has occurred.

Upon seeing Jiang Ling, Wang Qiang hurried over: "Mayor Jiang..."

When he found out what had happened, Wang Qiang's face turned extremely ugly, but he quickly realized that something was wrong.

"Mayor Jiang, something's not right!"

Wang Qiang glanced at Lu Ming in the crowd and whispered, "This matter was resolved yesterday. I personally took Zhang Yannan to the hospital afterwards."

"Although her emotions were unstable at the time, they were by no means this extreme. Now that she has done this, it is obvious that someone is instigating her behind the scenes."

Jiang Ling followed his gaze and saw Lu Ming, and immediately frowned slightly.

If what Wang Qiang said is true, then something is definitely not right.

Whether someone egged us on or not is another matter; the most urgent thing is to resolve this issue immediately!

"Yes."

Wang Qiang was furious. Although he had no concrete evidence, he was convinced that Lu Ming was behind this!

He hurriedly dialed Li Ping's number and growled, "Li Ping, where the hell are you?"

"Director Wang, I'm stuck in traffic here, it will take another ten minutes or so to get there."

"Damn it, get over here right now!"

So what if Lu Ming instigated it? There still needs to be an opportunity!

If Li Ping had kept a low profile, Lu Ming would never have been able to find fault with him!

At that moment, another black official car drove into the parking lot.

Wang Qiang's heart jumped, because it was Mayor Yu's car.

He hurriedly looked at Jiang Ling: "Mayor Jiang, Mayor Yu is here."

"Um."

Yu Wei came over as soon as she got out of the car.

When she saw the coffin, her reaction was the same as Jiang Ling's.

He looked bewildered and was greatly surprised.

Jiang Ling took in her expression and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

She could tell that Yu Wei's reaction didn't seem fake.

If Lu Ming really instigated this behind the scenes, how could she not know?

"Mayor Jiang, what's going on?"

Before Jiang Ling could speak, Wang Qiang took the initiative to explain.

Yu Wei's brows furrowed more and more as she listened.

She was almost certain that this was Lu Ming's doing.

After listening, Yu Wei said, "Are you just going to stand here and watch?"

Wang Qiang said awkwardly, "I..."

Yu Wei didn't have time to listen to his excuses. She walked straight through the crowd, knelt down in front of Zhang Yannan, and asked gently, "Xiao Zhang, what's wrong?"

Zhang Yannan's face was streaked with tears as she choked out, "Mayor Yu, my mother has passed away."

"I've heard about it, but you..."

"Mayor Yu, I didn't want this to happen either, but Director Li forced me to."

At this moment, Jiang Ling also came over and said seriously, "Tell me what Li Ping did, and Mayor Yu and I will definitely stand up for you."

"Director Li, he..."

While shedding tears, Zhang Yannan recounted what had happened yesterday.

"My mother was critically ill and hospitalized, but Director Li refused to grant me leave, so I had to ask Director Pan for leave."

"But when Director Li found out, he was furious and told me to come back to work from the hospital immediately, or it would be considered absenteeism and I would be punished."

"Just as I returned and was arguing with Director Li, the hospital called to say that my mother had passed away."

"Because of him, I didn't even get to see my mother one last time."

"I'm divorced and raising my child alone. If Director Li counts it as absenteeism, I won't get my full attendance bonus this month. I really have no other choice but to bring my mother's remains to work."

Many departments knew about her situation, but the onlookers were unaware.

Having understood the whole story, they were all filled with righteous indignation, feeling that Li Ping was simply a beast.

"To bully a single mother who is taking care of her seriously ill mother, is that something a human being would do?"

"If they treat their own comrades like this, wouldn't they be even more ruthless towards us?"

"Waiting for follow-up action!"

"..."

Yu Wei's face was also extremely ugly. She never expected that such a thing would happen right under her nose!

Just then, Li Ping finally arrived...