"Um... Goodbye, Daddy."
Hang up the phone.
The office was deathly silent.
Secretary Liu slowly sat back in his chair, crossed his hands, and rested his chin on them. After a long while, he finally raised his eyelids and looked at Zhao Daming in front of him.
"Zhao Daming."
"exist!"
"Are you fucking trying to rebel?"
This sound, though not loud, terrified Zhao Daming more than any roar.
"Secretary Liu, this...this really has nothing to do with me!"
"Bullshit!" Secretary Liu said, enunciating each word clearly. "In the entire Funing County, who doesn't know that you, Zhao Daming, are Zhang Cheng's man? You think you were completely unaware of what he's been doing?"
He stood up and kicked Zhao Daming in the back of the knee.
Zhao Daming knelt down with a thud, but dared not cry out in pain.
"Get up, you bastard!" Secretary Liu roared.
Zhao Daming immediately stood up straight like a spring, his body taut like a fully drawn bow.
Secretary Liu paced back and forth with his hands on his hips, his teeth grinding together.
"If I don't help him, what is his next move?"
“Secretary Liu, Zhang Cheng… he wouldn’t dare…”
"Dare not?" Secretary Liu laughed, a laugh utterly cold. "He dared to deliver threats directly to my office, what else wouldn't he dare to do?"
"If I don't take action, will tomorrow's Funing Daily have an extra piece of gossip on its front page?"
"I've even thought of a title for him—'The daughter of the municipal party secretary is two-timing; who is the true love, her fiancé or the Shanghai tycoon?'"
Secretary Liu suddenly stopped in front of Zhao Daming and stared intently at him.
Zhao Daming was sweating profusely, his Adam's apple bobbing, unable to utter a single word.
Because he knew in his heart that Zhang Cheng... was really capable of doing it.
Moreover, the methods will only be more ruthless and extreme.
Secretary Liu understood everything from his expression.
He felt a profound sense of powerlessness, a powerlessness that came from being choked by the most despicable means by insignificant people.
He wished he could shoot Zhang Cheng dead and kick Zhao Daming into jail.
But he couldn't.
That was his only daughter, his Achilles' heel, the armor he could never take off, and his most fatal weakness.
After a long while, Secretary Liu let out a long sigh of relief, walked back to his desk and sat down. He rubbed his aching temples, his eyes bloodshot and exhausted.
"Speak."
"Just how big of a mess did Zhang Cheng make in Jiaxing?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Daming knew that Secretary Liu... had compromised.
He was overjoyed and quickly recounted everything he knew in detail.
After listening, Secretary Liu's face turned extremely grim. He slammed his fist on the table and roared in a low voice:
"That little bastard! Fifteen lives! Does he have no respect for the law? No respect for party discipline and national laws?!"
"Secretary Liu, Zhang Cheng says he was wronged..."
"You believe everything he says!" Secretary Liu gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with malice. "Does he really think that just because he has this little thing about my daughter, I'll disregard the law for him? He underestimates me, Liu Zheng! Let me tell you, even if he exposes Miaomiao's affair to the highest levels, I will never..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhao Daming suddenly interrupted cautiously in a voice barely audible.
“Secretary Liu… Just before I arrived, the director of the county cardboard box factory came to report that Zhang Cheng… owed them two thousand yuan in outstanding payments for goods, and had not settled the matter.”
Secretary Liu's voice abruptly stopped.
The air in the office seemed to freeze instantly.
He slowly raised his head, staring intently at Zhao Daming, who was bowing his head, his facial muscles twitching slightly with extreme anger.
A few seconds later, he suddenly laughed.
He was so angry that he laughed instead.
"Okay...okay."
"You... you've even paved the way out for me."
A minor economic dispute.
This was a perfect excuse that would give the Funing County Public Security Bureau sufficient reason and jurisdiction to "interrogate" the criminal suspect Zhang Cheng in Jiaxing.
Each step is perfectly linked to the next, creating a seamless whole.
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