The Administration Bureau's people arrived quickly.
As expected, Xu Qiuyan led the team. There were seven of them in all. Xu Qiuyan was the team leader, while the other deputy team leader was a young man who looked about twenty-seven or twenty-eight, named Liu Yang.
The other five were three men and two women, none of whom I had met before.
Liu Yang had an aloof manner, his nose in the air and his eyes full of contempt. From the moment he got out of the car, he had not given anyone a proper look.
But when he looked at me, I could sense a certain hostility from him.
His gaze was icy, yet he wore a smile on his face.
He was the sort who spoke honeyed words while hiding a blade behind his smile.
I just did not know where his hostility toward me came from. Could it be because of that little matter between me and the Administration Bureau? I had never felt this way from any of its other members.
It was not until I noticed that there was something off about the way he looked at Xu Qiuyan that I understood.
He was probably one of Xu Qiuyan's admirers. He must already have known about my past with her, which was why he harbored such hostility toward me.
Naturally, I did not take him to heart. He was only part of an Administration Bureau Coordination Team. They called it coordination, but it was really supervision. Whether they coordinated or supervised, the affairs of this base would ultimately still be decided by me. Even Xie Yi respected my opinions on many matters.
"You should go rest first. There are some things I need to discuss with Mr. Jiang alone," Xu Qiuyan said to her subordinates. The