Yicheng City Public Security Bureau, the director's office.
Xia Xuejun held an insulated mug as he leaned back in his spacious leather chair, an irrepressible smile on his face.
Without any warning, Yicheng had been upgraded to a directly administered municipality. As the city's Public Security Bureau director, he had been a Department-Level Rank official on the verge of being sidelined into retirement. Now he had shot straight up to become a Senior Department-Level Rank bureau director of a directly administered municipality.
His ancestors must have been smiling down on him.
Bang.
The office door swung open.
Qin Churan strode up to the desk and slapped a white envelope onto it.
"Director Xia, this is my resignation letter."
The smile froze on Xia Xuejun's face. He set down his insulated mug, picked up the envelope, and glanced at it, his brows knotting together.
"Chu Ran, have you lost your mind?" Xia Xuejun's expression hardened as he assumed the authority of both an elder and a superior. "Yicheng just became a directly administered municipality, and your administrative standing rose along with it. You're already receiving Deputy Department-Level Rank benefits! How many twenty-six-year-old officials at that rank are there in the entire country? And now you're telling me you want to resign?"
Xia Xuejun was Qin Chuxia's maternal uncle. By their family ties, Qin Churan also had to address him as Uncle.
"Director Xia, I've thought this through." Qin Churan stood ramrod straight, her tone stiff. "I'm quitting."
Xia Xuejun slammed his hand on the desk in anger. "This is ridiculous!" He continued, "If your father knew you were throwing away such a bright future, he'd break your legs! What happened? Who in the bureau has been making life difficult for you? Tell me, and I'll skin them alive!"
"No one's been