"Didn't you just rescue a child who fell into a well this morning, and resolve the conflict between the two incompatible villages in Sunshine Community? Why do you seem so down?"
Hearing Wang Yan's words, Xia Jie shook her head and sighed. "Some things are beyond my control..."
Xia Jie was not someone who had trouble fitting in, and Wang Yan and the others were all newcomers who had started work together. Though she seemed quiet, communicating with her was not difficult.
"Let me guess. You probably have two things bothering you."
"Let's hear it." Xia Jie neither confirmed nor denied it.
Wang Yan smiled. "First, Director Cheng and the others are being overly protective of you and won't let you do anything. But you want to follow in your father's footsteps and become a good police officer who fights crime and serves the people. You don't want things to be this way, but you have no way to object. They're not only your elders, they're also your superiors, right?
"Second, I'm guessing your mother doesn't really approve of you being a police officer, especially a public security officer. She'd rather have you work in household registration or sit in an office at the district bureau. After all, your father used to be Director Song's colleague, and he even saved Director Song's life. That much favor is owed. It would be easy enough to transfer you temporarily to the district bureau.
"But you're still unwilling to accept it. You don't want your mother meddling in your work, and you especially don't want Director Cheng and the others giving you special treatment. After all, among us grassroots officers, women are used like men, and men are used like dogs."
"How did you know?"
"It's perfectly normal. Put yourself in someone else's