Entering the office, Lin Shuguang smiled innocently. "You wanted to see me, Chief?"
"Sit." The Square-faced Section Chief looked up, and his expression turned easygoing when he saw Lin Shuguang. He quickly finished signing the documents before him and asked casually, "By the way, what exactly is going on between you and that Zhao Family in Central Province?"
Lin Shuguang sat down without ceremony. "What, have those Zhao Family people been bothering you too?"
The Square-faced Section Chief chuckled at that. Straightening the documents in his hands one by one, he said just as casually, "The Zhao Family is practically frantic now. They've probably already started pulling strings at the provincial level to get through to the bureau chief."
Stubbornly unconcerned, Lin Shuguang said, "Then let them. Everything has to follow procedure. I'm in no hurry."
"You, honestly." The Square-faced Section Chief shook his head, but then changed tack, narrowing his eyes. "This is a good thing, though. Give these outside powers a warning. It's not just the Zhao Family. The other families have played plenty of dirty tricks behind the scenes these past two years too."
He looked up at Lin Shuguang. "You've got even more fire than I imagined. That's good. When I was your age, all I had was a head full of ambitions. Then I grew older and older, and grew weary."
"Not at all. You're a veteran of the bureau. I still have plenty to learn from you." Lin Shuguang gave a "bashful" smile.
The Square-faced Section Chief shook his head with a laugh. "Come to think of it, if I were twenty or thirty years younger, perhaps we really could have become good friends, punishing villains and fighting evil, roaming the world with swords in hand. People were more innocent back then, and their