Nominal: Hou Liangping blocking the door? He was slapped away!

He Xia stopped breathing.

Her mind went blank, with only the lines of striking black text on her phone screen, like a red-hot branding iron, imprinted on her retina.

She recognizes every single word.

But when these words were put together, they formed a terrifying meaning that she could not understand at all, a meaning that exceeded all her knowledge of the past thirty years.

Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Handong Provincial Military Region...

Appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee of Handong Province!

Military-clad Standing Committee member!

She kept chewing on those four words, her body began to feel uncontrollably cold, followed by an uncontrollable heat.

As a cadre who struggled within the system and finally climbed to the deputy director-general level, she knew all too well the weight of those four words!

That's one of the dozen or so people at the very top of the pyramid in Handong Province, truly controlling the lifeline of the province! They are the core of power who can make decisions on the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people at the highest decision-making meeting in the province!

She originally thought that her husband had simply used his mysterious military background to resolve the pressing problem of Hou Liangping.

She originally thought that his statement, "I want to go to Handong," was just a spur-of-the-moment thing, done to vent his anger on her behalf.

But she never expected this.

He wasn't going to Handong to solve the problem.

He wants to become the power of Handong Province itself!

The so-called struggle for the mayor of Hexi District in Jingzhou City, the so-called high-level power struggle, the so-called predicament of those from poor families becoming pawns...

In the face of the words "Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee," everything becomes a huge joke.

piece?

Who would dare, and who could, treat a provincial party committee member with military power as a pawn?

She finally understood.

When my husband said he was going to Handong, he wasn't just making empty promises.

He had planned everything from the very beginning!

Although the appointment has not been officially issued, based on what happened tonight, she has an inexplicable confidence that her husband can do all of this!

He Xia raised her head and looked at her husband again with a completely new gaze, filled with a mixture of awe and infatuation.

How many secrets does this man still hold that she doesn't know about?

What terrifying energy lies hidden beneath his calm exterior?

Shen Zhong looked at his wife's pretty face, which was filled with shock, and did not offer any further explanation.

He put away his phone, and naturally pulled her back into his arms, gently resting his chin against her smooth forehead.

"Are you relieved now?"

His voice was soft, yet it carried a calmness that could soothe any storm.

He Xia's heart was pounding. Leaning against her husband's strong chest, feeling the warmth and security that was uniquely hers, she nodded heavily.

"Um."

A single word can contain so many emotions.

Feeling his wife's dependence in his arms, Shen Zhong's lips curled into a very subtle smile, a rare occurrence.

"Go to Jingzhou to take up your post with peace of mind."

His hand gently patted her back, as if soothing a frightened kitten.

"Do things in officialdom without worrying about anyone's feelings or any factions or sides."

He paused for a moment, then spoke in an extremely calm tone a promise that would send chills down the spines of any official in Handong.

"The sky won't fall down."

This sentence carries more weight than any previous "Don't be afraid".

If the previous promises were based on the husband's protection of his wife.

So the promise now is the absolute support of a provincial party committee member for a district head under his jurisdiction!

He Xia's eyes welled up with tears.

All the previous grievances, anxieties, and fears have transformed into boundless motivation and infinite hope for the future at this moment.

She was no longer the weakling who was powerless in political struggles and could be sacrificed at any time.

Starting tonight, she will be the partner of a powerful politician.

She will have the strongest and most unreasonable backer in the entire Handong Province!

She nodded emphatically, and her beautiful eyes shone with a new, dazzling light.

The couple embraced quietly; having weathered this storm, their hearts were closer than ever before.

……

Night was falling.

He Xia, filled with peace and excitement, fell into a deep sleep in her bedroom.

Shen Zhong stood alone by the living room window.

He lit a cigarette, gazing at the deep night outside the window, his mind racing as he replayed everything that had happened that night.

The "appointment letter" to go to Handong is about to be received.

This is the first and most important step in his entire plan.

They also found Zhou Weiguo along the way.

A loyal, courageous special operations captain who holds him in absolute adoration will surely prove invaluable in Handong in the future.

And Hou Liangping...

Shen Zhong exhaled a smoke ring, the smoke blurring his cold, hard face.

Through this confrontation with Hou Liangping, he thoroughly understood the true nature of those so-called "elites" in this world.

Outwardly fierce but inwardly weak; bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

Faced with true strength, their pride in power, rules, and background is incredibly fragile.

This made him even more convinced that the survival rules he learned as a top-tier soldier in his previous life were equally applicable in this world.

In his view, the so-called political struggles and power struggles were nothing more than battlefields in a different form.

And he happens to possess the clearest "God's-eye view" of this battlefield.

In the deep waters of Handong, he knew perfectly well who the enemy was, who the friend was, who could be won over, and who had to be defeated.

Zhao Lichun's secretarial clique, Gao Yuliang's political and legal system, and that maverick Li Dakang...

These familiar names flashed through his mind one by one.

To outsiders, Handong is a complex and intricate network of power where a single move can have far-reaching consequences.

But in his eyes, it was just a stage with a pre-written script, where the fates of all the characters were already predetermined.

And he, Shen Zhong, is the only variable who tears up the script and overturns the card table.

"Handong..."

He stubbed out his cigarette and gazed in the direction of Handong Province, his eyes sharp as knives.

The turmoil in the capital is gradually subsiding in an invisible way.

Countless powerful figures, awakened in the dead of night, chose an eerie silence after confirming the ins and outs of the matter, and used the harshest language to restrain their subordinates and families.

Everyone knows that, starting tonight, the name "Shen Zhong" will become a taboo in the capital that cannot be easily touched.

But they also know.

An even bigger storm is about to officially begin in Handong Province, thousands of miles away.