Flexible Style of Doing Things

Lu PingAn understood Xia Qin just as Xia Qin understood Lu PingAn.

Lu PingAn knew that although Xia Qin was a "people pleaser," she had always been a realist.

She believed procedural justice took precedence over substantive justice, making her a textbook "good cop," but that did not mean she did not value substantive justice.

Quite the opposite. Like many law enforcement officers and judicial officials, she had seen too much of humanity's lower limits and feared that pure "substantive justice" would become "justice according to me."

"At least procedural justice can preserve the bottom line. When law enforcement officers like us no longer respect legal requirements and professional ethics, who will still trust us? Someone has to be a little stupid."

Those who wielded power and used it freely according to their own preferences were themselves disrupting order. That was why Lu PingAn would never be a good cop, while Xia Qin was.

She believed that obsessively pursuing results, as Lei Huo Ren had done in the past, would sooner or later lead to losing control. Could you guarantee that every one of your judgments was correct? Could you guarantee that, as a law enforcer, you possessed a judicial officer's legal knowledge and a master detective's logical reasoning, and could ensure every act of "justice being carried out" was correct?

If you could not, then it was better to be conservative and fulfill your duties within the rules.

That was how she thought, and how she acted. Yet judging by how she had pushed through all opposition to protect Lu PingAn back then, she also understood the limits of "rules" and "order" quite well. If one rigidly followed every rule, there would always be matters and people one knew were wrong yet had no power to deal with.

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