(This Was the Real Director Dong?)

Silence!

Not a sound could be heard!

The moment the cars collided with a deafening bang, the entire scene fell silent. Everyone stared dumbfoundedly at Dong Xuebin in the Xiali, their jaws hanging open!

"Damn!"

"What the hell is he doing?!"

"Jesus, is he even going to let us through?!"

"What happened? Did he hit the wrong pedal?"

"Oh my God, why did he ram into it?!"

Only in the next second did a complete uproar erupt at the scene!

Many people looked over and sucked in cold breaths, still shaken. Yang Zhen and the people from the Eighth Office's General Affairs Department were in the most miserable state. Since they had been in a conflict with the Second Division, they had been standing beside the Audi A4L, not far away. When the Xiali suddenly charged over, even though someone had screamed a warning, many people from the General Affairs Department had not snapped out of it in time. Their reactions were too slow. Only when the Xiali crashed into the rear of the Audi A4 with a bang did they come to their senses and scramble away in all directions. Yang Zhen stumbled and nearly twisted his leg, while a General Affairs Department clerk ran so frantically that he slammed straight into an Odyssey parked nearby. They were utterly disheveled. The others around them were a little farther away and were unharmed.

The crash had been incredibly loud!

It had also caught everyone completely off guard!

At once, windows throughout the Inspectorate Office Building opened one after another. People poked their heads out and looked down in astonishment, utterly stupefied!

Damn!

What was going on?

Why had they crashed into each other?!

Other departments might not have known what was happening, but the people from the First Office through the Seventh Office of the Inspectorate mostly knew about the history and longstanding conflict between the Eighth Office Second Division and the General Affairs Department. After all, they worked in the same two office buildings and saw each other all the time, so they knew one another fairly well. Over the years, they had seen the two departments argue and bicker plenty of times. Everyone had long grown used to it and no longer found it surprising. Whenever such disputes happened, leaders would eventually come over and suppress them. Yin Cheng'an of the Second Division was protective of his own people, but he still had a sense of the bigger picture in matters like this. The director of the General Affairs Department was the same. Thus, although the two departments had constantly been at odds, nothing major had ever happened. So even though many people in the building had heard the argument below, they merely watched the commotion for a moment before returning to work. They had seen the same spectacle too many times to care much anymore. Everyone knew it would not escalate.

But today, the way things developed had clearly stunned everyone!

When those who had opened their windows saw that Deputy Director Yang Zhen of the General Affairs Department's Audi A4 had actually been hit, its rear end nearly crushed in, they could hardly believe their eyes!

"A Xiali?"

"Whose car is that?"

"Shh, it belongs to the new Zhengchu Level Inspector from the Second Division."

"This... what the hell is this? Why did he ram it?!"

"Just watch. This matter between the Second Division and the General Affairs Department won't end well today!"

More and more windows upstairs opened. Staff from every department of the First Supervision Office through the Eighth Inspectorate Office learned what had happened almost at once, and some had even come downstairs to watch.

The atmosphere at the scene became extremely strange.

He Zhou, Sun Zhaobang, and the others from the Second Division were all staring wide-eyed as well.

Han Fei in particular looked at Dong Xuebin in the Xiali in utter disbelief. She had never expected that, after seeing them being bullied, Dong Xuebin would not only refuse to leave but would instead drive over and ram the car with such ferocity. This had completely exceeded everything Han Fei and the others from the Second Division knew or understood about Dong Xuebin. Wasn't he supposed to be a low-key leader who would not even eat with his subordinates or superiors? Wasn't he supposed to be an unsociable leader who could not even be bothered to speak to his subordinates? Fuck, why was Director Dong so damn domineering today?!

Yes!

Domineering!

The instant they saw the Xiali slam into the Audi's rear, Han Fei and Sun Zhaobang felt goosebumps rise all over their bodies. That crash had been so damn satisfying. But satisfying or not, how was this going to end? The nature of this incident was too serious, and the impact was too bad. Once the higher-ups learned what had happened, they would definitely be furious. This was no longer something that could be settled with an apology and some compensation. The leaders would not simply ignore it!

They could think of that, so naturally everyone else could as well.

At that moment, everyone had the same thought: what was this newly arrived Director Dong trying to do? Was this what they meant by keeping quiet until making a stunning debut? He had only been here for a few days, yet during work hours he had smashed into a colleague's car? They were all bewildered by Director Dong's outrageous act and could barely understand it. If it had been anyone else—any cadre with even the slightest bit of political sense—they would never have done this. At most, they would have gotten out of the car to smooth things over, or spoken up for their own people in the Second Division, reasoned with the General Affairs Department, clarified the matter, and resolved the issue. Fine, even taking ten thousand steps back, he could have gotten out and cursed Deputy Director Yang a few times, yelled at the people from the General Affairs Department a few times. But what did he do? He did not utter a single word of nonsense. He simply stepped on the gas and drove right at them. He had even backed up more than ten meters first to make the impact stronger?!

That was just too wicked!

That was way too savage!

Everyone's eyes turned to Dong Xuebin's face.

Yet Dong Xuebin, sitting in the car, did not care in the slightest. His expression was utterly calm, as though he had done nothing more than the most ordinary thing in the world and had not taken it to heart at all. And that was indeed the case. To others, this might have been outrageous, but for Dong Xuebin? Ramming people's cars? Smashing people's cars? Dragging people's cars away? He had done such things too many times to count on one hand. It was perfectly ordinary!

As for keeping a low profile?

Low-profile my ass!

If he kept being low-key, he would suffocate to death!

Dong Xuebin had already thrown his mother-in-law's and wife's warnings to the back of his mind. In a situation like this, his temper would not allow him to endure it. Just as Dong Xuebin had told his wife and family before, even if he gave up this official uniform, he, Dong Xuebin, would still live his life freely and unrestrained!

This was Dong Xuebin!

There was no retreat in his dictionary!

There was no compromise in his nature!

With the sky above his head and the earth beneath his feet, he would never change for the rest of his life!

The Xiali stalled, but only for a few seconds. While everyone was still talking and staring, Dong Xuebin started it again and stepped on the gas once more. Amid everyone's cries of alarm, he slowly drove forward, pushing against the Audi A4's rear. The car was moving slowly; the Xiali did not have that much power. But no matter how weak its engine was or how battered the car might be, a motor vehicle was still a motor vehicle. With a series of creaks, the Xiali's front end crumpled badly as well, its paint continually flaking off, but Dong Xuebin did not feel the slightest bit sorry for it. There was nothing to feel sorry about. It was only a secondhand car worth a few thousand yuan. Even if someone stole it, he would not so much as blink. So he pushed the Audi another five or six meters forward. Once he had shoved the Audi A4 out of the way, he turned the wheel and calmly parked the Xiali within the painted lines. He unhurriedly unfastened his seat belt, straightened his collar, and got out of the car at his leisure.

He looked incredibly suave!

As if nothing had happened at all!

The onlookers around him were also speechless, falling silent for a while.

But the more Dong Xuebin acted like that, the angrier the people from the Eighth Office's General Affairs Department became. They had nearly been hit, and that had been Deputy Director Yang Zhen's car! Still, while those clerks and junior cadres had dared to accuse Han Fei, He Zhou, and the others just now, they did not dare say anything harsh to Dong Xuebin's face. He was a leader from the Second Division, a leader on the same level as Deputy Director Yang. It was not their place as subordinates to speak. Not everyone there had a background like Han Fei's, nor did everyone dare defy a leader the way Han Fei did.

Yang Zhen's face went pale with anger. He had nearly fallen earlier and was still shaken; once he came to his senses, he charged at Dong Xuebin. "Are you trying to kill someone?!"

Dong Xuebin looked at him coldly. "Are you looking to die? How the hell did you park? Huh? If you want to 'commit suicide,' go get yourself hit by a car on the road! No one's stopping you!"

Yang Zhen snapped, "And you think you're in the right?"

Dong Xuebin said, "I honked three times! What the hell were you doing?"

"You..." Yang Zhen had not expected to run into someone like this. He was furious.

Clearly, Dong Xuebin had hit Yang Zhen's car, yet Dong Xuebin looked even angrier than Yang Zhen. "This is the agency's road! Everyone's road! The place is small enough already, and you've gotten addicted to parking here, huh? Count for yourself how long you've been blocking the way! You think this is your family's road?"

A General Affairs Department staffer gathered his courage and said, "There's another road over there!"

Dong Xuebin laughed. "I know there's another way in over there, but why should I take it? This is the road I was driving on! All of us have to make way for you people from the General Affairs Department? Who the hell do you think you are? You really think you're somebody? Go home and take a look in the mirror! Stop making a spectacle of yourselves here!"

Han Fei was stunned.

He Zhou, Sun Zhaobang, and the others were dumbfounded as well.

From their interactions with Dong Xuebin over the past few days, Director Dong had seemed like the type to treat every word as precious. He usually did not speak at all; even when someone greeted him, he would only nod without making a sound. Why was he suddenly so aggressive and imposing the moment he opened his mouth today?

Was this still Director Dong?

Why did it feel as though he had become a completely different person?

Or rather, was this who he really was?

Han Fei and the others from the Second Division exchanged astonished looks. Dong Xuebin had given them far too great a shock today!

They had guessed right. This unruly streak was Dong Xuebin's true temperament. He had genuinely been stifled enough during his days at the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Hadn't he even gone on the office forum under an alias to argue with people? This guy had been bored out of his mind. Now that he had erupted, how could he possibly hold it in? Dong Xuebin felt that if he did not find himself a little "trouble" to deal with, he would truly die of boredom!

Yang Zhen was unlucky too!

Those who knew Dong Xuebin all understood that even when there was no trouble, this guy could always stir some up. Yet Yang Zhen had come looking for him once, then twice—he was practically throwing himself into Dong Xuebin's line of fire. If Dong Xuebin did not deal with him, then who would he deal with?

(To be continued.)