The car stopped in front of a popular milk tea shop... The car had been borrowed from a friend and was rather shabby. As for his original car... it had gone into the repair shop. Officer Ma had a tough time crawling out of it.
Ma Houde swept his gaze around and quickly spotted Ye Yan. He hurried over.
A woman was sitting beside Ye Yan, with her back to him.
"Well, well. No wonder you asked me to come to a place like this. So you've got a girl now. You're still as much of a womanizer as ever."
"Take a good look at who it is before you start talking." Ye Yan said grumpily.
"Who is it...? Ali?"
They had not sat together and chatted like this for several years. Ever since they had gone their separate ways a few years ago, this was their first gathering.
At first, none of them spoke. They simply looked at each other.
After a while, Ye Yan was the first to speak. "I'm leaving this afternoon. My flight is at four."
"That soon?" Old Ma was stunned.
Ye Yan nodded. "I came back here on a business trip. Now that I've finished my work, of course I have to go back and write my report... Although things later went far beyond anything I could have anticipated."
"The Inspection Team..." Ma Houde muttered. "Who would have thought that someone who had been wanted for so long would suddenly become one of the people in charge of supervision? In that case, your superior must have a terrible headache right now!"
Ye Yan said nothing.
Strictly speaking, he could only be considered a peripheral member of the Special Affairs Division within the Detective Organization. He could gain initial access to some cases involving