If Li Ye had been an old workhorse or a clueless office newbie in his previous life, he might have considered Jiang Xiaoyan's predicament an "accident."
A leader who had once valued her was suddenly transferred away, then the new leader promoted another colleague, causing all her years of struggle to go down the drain.
It seemed both helpless and perfectly normal. Once it landed on your head, all you could do was admit your bad luck.
But after seeing and hearing about a whole series of personnel changes in this life, Li Ye knew that the odds of something like this were actually very low.
Once officials reached department-head level or above, no transfer was ever so casual. Every one of them had to go through a string of games and clashes before becoming the final result of all sorts of balancing and compromise.
By the time that transfer order arrived, the contests between every side had already ended. That bright red Official Seal was merely a footnote marking the settling of the dust after a grand drama.
So when you saw someone being transferred, caught between surprise and delight, wearing an unprepared expression, then beating their chest and sighing before their trusted subordinates as they claimed they were truly powerless, you had better weigh it carefully.
Even if they had been forced into a corner and driven away, they must have seen it coming long ago.
At that level, they knew perfectly well what they themselves had done. How could they still know nothing when the moment came?
Even the dismissal of a ping-pong player came with signs of promotion beforehand! Let alone a powerful official like Jiang Xiaoyan in The Department?
Saying that a transfer order had fallen from the sky and caught them unprepared was nothing