Second update—urgently need Recommendation Tickets.
Monday.
Morning, eight o'clock.
Walking through the cool, pleasant air on his way to report to the Chengxi Branch Bureau, Dong Xuebin thought about the long-term goal he had impulsively set for himself two days ago and felt a little embarrassed. He had barely gotten one foot through the doors of government work, and he was already thinking of becoming a Politburo Member? If Mom or his classmates found out, they would probably laugh themselves to death. Still, Dong Xuebin had not given up on that unrealistic dream. He truly intended to achieve it step by step.
Zixin Road, Chengxi District.
West side of the intersection.
Checking the time, Dong Xuebin saw it was only 8:20, still far from his 9:00 reporting time. He bought a jianbing without a crispy cracker from a roadside cart, then stood behind it in front of a closed pirate bookstore, eating while sheltering from the wind. Dong Xuebin was fairly familiar with this area. The small east gate of Fifteenth Middle School, where he had taken the written civil service exam, was in the alley ahead. Across the crosswalk was the south gate parking lot of Jiangong Hospital, and farther east was the north gate of Taoranting Park.
Just as he finished the jianbing, a bus pulled into the stop across the road.
A highly conspicuous figure got off through the rear door. He was a heavyweight young man about Dong Xuebin's age, six foot three and nearly three hundred pounds. Broad-waisted, thick-necked, with a fierce-looking face full of flesh, he looked rather intimidating. Several office workers nearby took him for a thug and steered clear of him.
After getting off, the tall, fat brute looked around and strode toward Dong Xuebin on his thick legs.
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