Pan Youguang clenched his fists slightly.
Looking at He Kui before him, he felt utterly helpless.
He could not help regretting it. Why had he let an obstinate bastard like He Kui take charge of the Education Bureau?
When Chen Zhongming first proposed promoting He Kui to Education Bureau Chief, he had consulted Pan Youguang, as was customary.
Pan Youguang knew He Kui. He was famously stubborn and unyielding, and would bow to no one.
If He Kui had been even slightly more flexible, his years of service alone should have earned him a division-level post. He would never have remained a sidelined section chief.
Even if Chen Zhongming promoted him, He Kui would not favor Chen Zhongming in the slightest on matters of right and wrong.
So, in Pan Youguang's eyes, Chen Zhongming's decision to promote He Kui was simply an indirect way of suppressing and blocking the various factions vying for the position of Education Bureau Chief.
As District Chief, Pan Youguang also wanted less infighting under his jurisdiction.
And after thinking it over again and again,
he had therefore accepted Chen Zhongming's proposal.
Never had he imagined that Chen Zhongming's arrangement would obstruct him today.
Wait!
Chen Zhongming's arrangement?!
Pan Youguang's eyes suddenly widened.
So Chen Zhongming had deliberately planted a pawn who wasn't really his pawn, right under my nose?!
But how had Chen Zhongming known I would do... do something like this during the Gaokao?!
Pan Youguang's feelings grew increasingly complicated.
He did not understand that Chen Zhongming had always made a habit of taking a shot, whether or not it would yield anything.
That had been true when he helped Qin Siyang at the meeting, and it was true of his promotion of He Kui.
He did not know what would come of it,