“Miss Xu!” said Zheng’s mother. “You are Jasmine’s best friend and Zhenzhen’s godmother. You must help Heping. He is now a cadre in the government. We can’t let this little thing affect his career.”
Xu Moran took a breath and looked at Old Madam Zheng with a calm gaze. "Auntie, as you just said, if it's just a small matter, it definitely won't affect Zheng Heping's career. I have other things to do, so I'll be leaving now."
Xu Moran felt that there were indeed strange people every year, but there seemed to be more this year than ever. Not wanting to waste any more time on unimportant people, he withdrew his hand after saying this and strode towards the second floor.
Old Mrs. Zheng muttered something behind her. Although Xu Moran didn't hear it clearly, she knew it couldn't be anything nice.
It doesn't matter. If cursing others could come true, what would be the point of having police?
Xu Moran strode forward, taking two steps at a time as she went up the stairs. She didn't want to see someone as domineering, unreasonable, and self-righteous as Old Mrs. Zheng for even a second longer.
Just as Xu Moran reached the second floor, Jiang Moli called. Looking at the caller ID, even a fool could guess who had asked her to call and what it was about.
She couldn't possibly ignore Jiang Moli's call, "Hello..."
Before I could even finish saying "hello," Jiang Moli was already speaking rapidly on the other end: "Ranran, Zheng Heping's mother just called me and asked you to help her get Zheng Heping out of the police station as soon as possible. I called you to tell you not to listen to me. The police station isn't yours to run. Follow your department's rules and regulations."
Jiang Moli was nowhere to be found, and her voice was very low, but one could tell from her words that she was satisfied with Zheng Heping being detained at the police station.
Xu Mo smiled and looked up at the distant sky. "Lily, you're finally starting to awaken. That's a good sign."
Jiang Moli pretended to be angry when Xu Moran teased her, saying, "Ranran, you're so annoying," before hanging up the phone.
Xu Moran didn't immediately return to her office. Instead, she stood in the corridor, looking towards the distant sky. She had heard that the smog in S City was very serious. Should she wear a PM2.5 mask?
Xu Moran was already preparing to go to S City, while Jiang Moli was still figuring out how to leave the room she was in.
For some reason, no matter how she pulled or pushed the door from the inside, it wouldn't budge. Afraid of waking the man who was still fast asleep in bed, she pushed and slid the door very softly.
She took the two phone calls to Xu Moran and the one call from Zheng's mother in the bathroom, which is why Xu Moran thought her voice was very low.
It was true that she kept her voice low, not because she was afraid of waking the man who was still sleeping; it wasn't Xu Moran's perception.
As time passed, Jiang Moli was no longer in a state of panic when she first opened her eyes and found herself lying in an unfamiliar room with a strange man sleeping next to her.
Gradually, she calmed down, especially when she recalled that last night she was the one who pulled down the other person's pants first, and that she was the one who cried and wouldn't let the other person leave.
It's her fault, it's all her fault.
After hanging up the first call she made to Xu Moran, she tried her best to open the door and escape from the crime scene. This is probably an instinctive reaction that anyone committing a crime, especially a first-time offender, would have.
Just as the door was about to open, Zheng's mother called.
When Jiang Moli saw Zheng's mother's call popping up on her phone screen, she felt a momentary panic. No wonder she was pulling at a strange man last night; it turned out that something as rare as Zheng's mother calling her was about to happen.
Not wanting to ignore the phone, she hid in the bathroom again.
Zheng's mother is Zheng's mother. Even when Jiang Moli had to ask Xu Moran for help, she spoke with such confidence and self-assurance.
Jiang Moli looked down at the messy bath towels on the floor, and a feeling of "what's the use of trying" suddenly welled up in her heart. Unlike before, when she would listen to whatever Zheng's mother said, she asked her in return why Zheng Heping was at the police station.
The reason given by Zheng's mother, who doted on her son, must lie entirely with Zheng Heping's female subordinate and her butcher husband.
This is what she told Jiang Moli: that woman had been coveting Zheng Heping's position for a long time, and in order to get that position, she conspired with her husband to frame Zheng Heping from the inside.
Zheng Heping never expected that others, especially his female subordinates, would frame him, so he fell for their trick.
After hearing Zheng's mother's protective words, Jiang Moli really wanted to ask her a question in return: If Zheng Heping didn't think of himself as a rotten egg, even if someone had a diamond drill, they wouldn't dare to poke at him.
Also, if Zheng Heping really has no sense of self-preservation, then he shouldn't be a government official anymore, and he shouldn't be thinking about climbing the ranks all day long.
The officialdom is a turbulent place; one must tread carefully and be extremely cautious, otherwise one may capsize at any moment and fall into utter ruin.
Considering that she was in an unfamiliar hotel and had had that kind of relationship with a strange man, she felt a little guilty. She didn't argue with Zheng's mother, just said a few perfunctory words, and repeatedly assured Zheng's mother that she would call Xu Mo immediately before quickly hanging up the phone.
To be honest, when Jiang Moli heard the news that Zheng Heping had been detained at the police station, she didn't feel sorry for him or rush to find a solution like she used to when Zheng Heping was in trouble. This time, she was unusually calm and even felt a little schadenfreude deep down.
She could never forget how he flirted with a strange woman at the bar last night.
Whether it was his first time hooking up or his nth time, he has to bear the consequences of his actions.
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