"Commissioner Geng" had naturally been left with a face ashen from those words, his lips trembling, yet he couldn't manage a single rebuttal.
Of course he knew how much weight the Jia Residence carried, and he knew Lin Daiyu's reputation was well established. But whenever he thought of the other party acting so recklessly, brazenly barging into the Inspectorate's prison and snatching away the witnesses, he simply couldn't swallow his anger!
After all, it had been so blatant, so lawless—an outright insult to the Inspectorate!
What was more, those three witnesses were people he himself had arrested!
And before all this, he had even harshly mocked the other two groups of commissioners—officials from different bureaus and dispatched at different times, just like him, to investigate Jiangnan.
But look how things had turned out. He had barely finished mocking them when karma came knocking. Now it was someone else's turn to mock him and the Inspectorate mercilessly.
"..."
At that moment, the Right Inspector finally opened his eyes again—and this time, he didn't immediately close them.
He studied "Commissioner Geng" for a moment before speaking. His tone was a little gentler than before, but still carried a certain deep-rooted bureaucratic wisdom:
"Geng..."
"How could I not know all that?"
"The witnesses were snatched from our prison. It's a slap in the face, a great humiliation for us!"
"I'm hardly pleased about it myself."
He paused, then suddenly shifted his tone.
"But..."
"You saw it for yourself. The witnesses are gone, and the chain of evidence is broken."
"We're blind and deaf now!"
"Without proof, how can we go after anyone from the Jia Residence?"
"The Jia Residence these days isn't exactly powerful, but it isn't insignificant either!"
"Acting rashly wouldn't be investigating a case. It'd be poking a hornet's nest."
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