The meeting ended successfully.
Some people were deeply unhappy with it, of course-Chen Gongrang, Pan Youguang, and Feng Shouben, for instance.
But.
Qin Siyang thought it had gone perfectly.
Chen Zhongming thought so too.
If those two thought it had gone perfectly, then it had gone perfectly.
Qin Siyang and Qian Wendao left the conference room one after the other, chatting and laughing as they walked out of the district government building.
"Little Qin, shall we take the bus back together?"
"Huh? Isn't Pan Youguang's car taking us back?"
"What are you thinking? Didn't you see that his face was greener than the Four-Cornered Green Jellyfish we ate? It was gracious enough of him not to hit you, and you expect him to send his car to take you home? You're something else."
"Old Qian, I did all this for you!"
"I know, I know! Don't worry. I've always known who I owe and who owes me. I won't forget what you did today."
Qian Wendao checked that no one was nearby, then asked quietly, "Are you planning to go after Zhou Xing?"
"Yeah. That's the plan."
Qian Wendao's triangular eyes suddenly turned serious. "Zhou Xing has some backing. You'd better be careful."
"Backing? I've dealt with him before. He was the one who gave me the Special Admission slot. He didn't seem all that impressive?"
Qian Wendao shook his head.
"Don't underestimate him. Getting hold of a Special Admission slot isn't easy for a division chief in the Education Department. I suspect he has some powerful forces behind him."
"And when he asked me to falsify a sequence, the person who introduced him was a big shot from the Sigma District. I couldn't possibly refuse."
"The Sigma District? Aren't all the districts numbered?"
"Oh, the Sigma District is District