Outside the compound.
Cars and people flowed past.
Those arriving for work greeted one another.
The officials coming for the meeting chatted as they walked inside.
Dong Xuebin slipped his injured left hand into his pocket and quietly swept his gaze over the Municipal State Security Bureau's Office Building and the Civil Servants arriving for work. Back when he had still been at the Chengxi Branch Bureau, he had seen Wang Sen's current wife, Xu Yan, once on the soccer field, but he had never met Wang Sen himself, so he had no idea which one he was. None of them seemed likely. Wang Sen was probably outside Dong Xuebin's field of vision. Since the Municipal Bureau had a meeting today and Wang Sen was the Top Leader of a subordinate department, it was hard to say whether he would arrive early on an ordinary day, but he should have come early today. He might already be here.
Tan Limei, standing some distance away, was sweating bullets. She casually chatted nonsense with her colleagues, but the corner of her eye kept glancing outside, and she was terribly anxious.
"Little Tan? Director Tan?"
"Ah, I'm here, Director Zhen."
"I know you're here. What are you looking at?"
"Uh, nothing. Nothing."
Zhen Anguo followed her gaze and looked outside. The moment he did, he froze. "Eh, that person... isn't that Little Dong?"
Tan Limei had no choice but to say, "He looks like him to me too. I'm not sure."
"Little Dong?" A Chengxi Branch Bureau official beside them exclaimed, "Director Dong?"
Another official who was with them also shuddered and looked toward the barred gate!
Dong Xuebin's name was simply too famous in their Chengxi Branch Bureau. Although Dong Xuebin had been transferred away more than two years ago, no one