After having a smoke and finishing their chat, they watched Chief Wang head back inside. Wang Yan then walked smilingly over to the bench beneath the corridor at the corner, where Xia Jie sat blankly, looking dejected.
Wang Shouyi had just said that Zhang Zhijie had found a lead among the recently released prisoners and taken people from the station out to bust a gambling operation. This was something that had happened in the original show. Not only did they catch the gamblers, they also brought Li Dawei's biological father back, causing another minor commotion.
It was also on that same day that Doctor Wu from the original show came looking for her daughter. Because Doctor Wu wanted to report her daughter missing, Xia Jie had asked her to provide a blood sample first, which upset her. After making a scene, Xia Jie went out with Director Cheng to look for the girl. They eventually found her at a classmate's home, and Xia Jie got slapped again.
Of course, it did not end there. Doctor Wu believed Xia Jie's request for a blood sample was a curse on her, so she proceeded to file every kind of complaint—calling 12345, reporting them to the provincial department. She was absolutely relentless, determined to make Xia Jie apologize.
Xia Jie held out at first, but eventually she had no choice. Chief Wang was even going to have the other female officers apologize for her. Left with no alternative, she had to go. The problem with this was Chief Wang, Director Song, and the city bureau acting as if the police had to be so spineless.
Still, it was not entirely incomprehensible. After all, the original purpose of this TV drama was to give people a rough understanding of ordinary police officers, and there