The Unusual

If Luo Teng had risen from director of the Third Bureau to become the Bureau's second-in-command and was viewed as Old Director Zhou Yihao's successor, plenty of people within the Action Bureau still secretly refused to accept him. As a result, Luo Teng had not yet had the chance to establish his authority throughout the Bureau.

But Old Director Zhou Yihao had held that position for years. Even if he usually came across as a kindly, benevolent old man, the authority he had built up over time was no joke. Once he spoke, his words carried tremendous weight. No one dared openly contradict him.

Even Deputy Director Wu did not have the nerve to do that.

He dared to stand his ground against Luo Teng, but he would never dare contradict Old Director Zhou Yihao to his face. He simply did not have the nerve.

At the end of the day, he could not stand up to him!

If he insisted on defying Zhou Yihao, the old director could even use his authority to suspend him temporarily!

As second-in-command, Luo Teng did not have that power, but Old Director Zhou Yihao certainly did!

It was just that such authority was not normally exercised lightly.

But if Deputy Director Wu openly defied Old Director Zhou Yihao now and provoked the soon-to-retire director into anger, there was no telling what might happen next.

Deputy Director Wu could not be certain that Old Director Zhou Yihao would refrain from using that authority.

After struggling with it for a while, he ultimately chose not to stand his ground. He knew that if he were suspended, everything he had built in the Action Bureau would come to nothing.

The rules he had been insisting on would mean nothing to him, either.

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