The Tempting Road to Becoming an Official

"Do you think such a tragic incident would cause an uproar in Jinde County?"

It didn't.

Merely ten minutes after the fall, the local police station rushed to the scene.

Then, the Jinde County Criminal Police team arrived as well.

After cordoning off the scene,

the police conducted a thorough search of the hotel room.

In the afternoon, a man around forty years old went to the police station to surrender, admitting he was the person involved in Wang Miaofang's falling case.

He confessed to the police that he had been in an extramarital affair with Wang Miaofang for a long time.

Today at noon,

he had arranged to meet Wang Miaofang at the hotel.

The two of them had sexual relations as usual.

Wang Miaofang fell out of the hotel window due to a mishap; they were trying some adventurous positions near the window, and unexpectedly, a forceful maneuver led to Wang Miaofang slipping and falling to her death.

Police arrested him on the spot and charged him with manslaughter, sending him to the detention center.

And with that, there was no more to the case.

It wasn't until a week later that the case resurfaced with further complications.

It was on the third day after the fall,

the Disciplinary Committee made a decision.

They gave Shi Zhengxiang, who had misused public funds, a major demerit, demoted his administrative level, and transferred him out of the Education Bureau.

On the same day,

Li Weiyang transferred the 540,000 yuan originally designated for updating the Education Bureau's equipment directly to the account of Huqiu Township government, earmarked for the reconstruction expenses of the Huqiu Township primary school.

Merely a half hour after the money was sent,

Qi Hui stormed into Li Weiyang's office to confront her.

Unexpectedly, Li Weiyang was even more furious than him, standing with hands on her hips, she scolded him mercilessly and landed a punch on Qi Hui, who was as defenseless as cotton, leaving him seething with rage yet completely powerless against her.

That evening,

Chen Fang lay awake in bed, unable to sleep for a long time.

He earnestly reflected on everything he had done since arriving in Jinde County.

Apart from using special means to conquer Li Weiyang and subsequently framing Shi Zhengxiang, he hadn't accomplished anything else.

He managed to infuriate his own subordinate, Pi Yanping, who was just fine without him as a director.

He asked for Qin Yi to be his secretary, but the office's Shao Rui kept stalling and wouldn't complete the paperwork.

He couldn't get involved in any other work, as everyone went directly to Qi Hui to report; even though he was the head of the bureau, nobody paid him any heed.

In that moment,

he felt the sense of powerlessness that engulfed Li Duming.

In name, he was the top leader, but the work depended on those below. If his subordinates weren't aligned with him, he could not enforce his will, and he would never truly hold power in the Education Bureau.

Apart from Li Weiyang,

everyone else had deep, entrenched interests with Qi Hui and Pan Youde.

Interests outweighed all else.

Unless he replaced that entire group,

there was no way to shake Qi Hui's status.

Yet, even if he replaced all those people, it wouldn't solve the problem, as the entire educational system of Jinde County was thoroughly corrupt. The only way to truly change the status quo was one thing:

A complete overhaul.

To execute a full system overhaul, the first prerequisite was to remove the two mountains before him, one being Pan Youde and the other Qi Hui.

Of course,

this was risky as well.

There were people above Pan Youde,

and that leader in the shadows would never allow Chen Fang to do this.

The more he thought about it, the more upset he became.

He got up from the bed in a huff,

intending to find something to drink from the fridge.

He opened the door of the bedroom, didn't bother to switch on the light, and in his underwear, Chen Fang staggered into the living room. Just as he was about to head to the fridge, he was suddenly startled.

Before his eyes,

there was someone standing.

A woman.

In the darkness, her features were somewhat unclear.

But like him, the woman was undressed, wearing only panties, and her breasts swayed freely.

At first, the woman seemed languid.

But then, she too, was shocked to see Chen Fang and froze on the spot.

"Ah..."

"Ah..."

Both of them almost screamed at the same time.

Especially the woman.

Her shrieks echoed through the living room.

Immediately after, she dashed into the kitchen, and when she came back, she was holding a kitchen knife.

"Thief! I'll kill you, you thief!"

Instead of hiding away in fear,

the woman charged naked at Chen Fang, her breasts bouncing and a kitchen knife in her hand.

Chen Fang wasn't foolish enough to stand still and let her attack.

He quickly hid behind the sofa.

The woman lunged and missed.

Then she circled around the sofa to chase him.

Chen Fang was agile, and as he saw the kitchen knife almost greeting him, he quickly dived under the dining table.

There was a "thud" sound.

The kitchen knife chopped directly into the tabletop, lodging deep into it.

"Holy shit, are you this ruthless, lady?"

Chen Fang poked his head out from under the table, staring at the deep cut, and said with a chill running down his spine.

"You're the lady!"

Because the woman couldn't pull out the knife right away,

she immediately picked up a plate from the table and hurled it at Chen Fang.

If it weren't for Chen Fang's quick reflexes,

he would have probably had his head cracked open.

Seeing the woman "enjoying herself," preparing to throw another plate,

Chen Fang quickly put out his hand and said, "Can we cool off for a moment?"

"Cool off my ass, you thug and thief," she retorted.

The woman had no intention of negotiating.

Another plate came flying Chen Fang's way.

This time, with Chen being prepared, he easily dodged it.

"Can you stop it already? I'm not a thief, nor a thug, I'm a tenant here,"

Chen Fang explained.

The woman didn't listen at all and kept throwing while shouting, "You're talking bullshit, this is my house. There's no tenant here, you are a thug."

The plates that were once arranged with fruits on the table, one by one, became her darts thrown at Chen Fang. What else could he do but run for cover?

The last plate was thrown.

The table was now empty.

The woman's gaze fell on the kitchen knife again, and Chen Fang had a bad feeling, loudly asking, "Xiao Ting, your name is Xiao Ting, right?"

Hearing Chen Fang's words, the woman hesitated for a moment.

Chen Fang saw her reaction and quickly said, "I really am a tenant here. My name is Chen Fang, Vice Mayor Xiao let me stay here."

Vice Mayor Xiao?

The woman paused for a moment.

She commanded, "Don't move, stand there. I am going to turn on the light."

A shiver went through Chen Fang.

He shouted, "Don't..."

The word "don't" had barely escaped his lips when it was too late; the woman cried out in pain, presumably having stepped on the broken glass on the floor.

Chen Fang was about to rush over

when the woman lifted her leg to check, and her foot touched a sharp piece of glass, she screamed in pain and sat down on the floor.

There was another scream.

Because she had sat directly on the broken glass.

It was over.

Chen Fang's head was in a daze.

Without thinking further,

he rushed to the woman's side, lifted her up, and took her away from the "danger zone."

By the time Chen Fang turned on the light,

there was already blood streaming from the soles of her feet and her butt.

Of course.

At this point, he also got a clear view of the woman's face.

It truly was Xiao Ting.

Her youthful and vibrant body was laid out before him, with curves in all the right places, slender where they should be. Not only was her appearance more stunning than her mother's, but her figure was better too.

"Have you seen enough, or do you still claim you're not a pervert?"

Xiao Ting, who was kneeling on the sofa, roared with anger.

Only then did Chen Fang come to his senses and said, "Just wait a second!"

Having spoken,

he dashed into his bedroom.

He emerged with a first-aid kit and also carried one of his T-shirts in hand.

Chen Fang first put his T-shirt on Xiao Ting,

covering her exposed body.

Then he had her lie down.

"I'm going to check your wounds now, just bear with it for a moment," he told her.

At this point, Xiao Ting was in so much pain that cold sweat broke out, and she kept wailing miserably.

Chen Fang squatted down.

Seeing the two deep wounds on her soles, he said, "I'm going to treat your wounds now, try to endure it."

After saying that, he started cleaning the wounds with a cotton swab soaked in iodine.

"Ah, it hurts, it hurts so much..."

Xiao Ting couldn't help but scream again.