"No following, no surveillance, no vigilance, no guard."
A meeting was also underway in a small conference room at the Ancient Culture Research and Analysis Archives.
"The promotions and transfers of Lu Zheng's parents and Lin Wan's mother were all perfectly reasonable. Well, Lu Hui's promotion to senior rank was a little fast, but that was only because he'd been held back for so long before. With his abilities and qualifications, there was absolutely no problem with him reaching senior rank at his age."
"But with three coincidences piled together, Lu Zheng and Lin Wan would easily notice something was off, wouldn't they? Especially since Lin Wan is a second-class police superintendent."
"Our goal is for them to notice something is off. Consider it a greeting. Since direct contact isn't appropriate, this gives both sides room to advance or retreat.
"We trust Lin Wan's character. What concerns us instead is that Lu Zheng may misunderstand us, so some things still need to be taken one step at a time."
"We don't understand what those above us mean, and those above us don't understand what we mean either."
"Because we showed that we didn't want contact with those above us, even if they discovered us, they wouldn't abruptly come knocking."
Lin Wan smiled as she explained to Lu Zheng, "This move is both a greeting and a probe into our attitude. They want to see how we react, whether our response is intense. If it is, that means we strongly resist contact with the higher-ups, and that leaves both sides room to ease things over."
"Tsk, tsk, so many schemes. Political players really do have hearts full of—cough, cough..."
"Who are you talking about~?" Lin Wan shot Lu Zheng a seductive glare and tightened her grip.
"My mistake, my mistake,