Liu Jianming

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Background / History

Liu Jianming’s corruption network connects government authority, overseas financial channels, and officials who suppress investigations. His wife, Qian Huifang, uses his influence to accumulate wealth and controls an overseas shell company that receives large transfers of unexplained origin. Records released by Sun Ming expose these transactions, with investigators suspecting that the money financed luxury purchases and overseas properties 8.

The investigation into Liu’s case is compromised by its own leadership. Prosecutor Li Mingyu’s wife receives concealed funds during the period when the case is first suppressed. A substantial portion of the bribes reaching Li ultimately flows to an overseas foundation established by Zhou Huaian’s daughter; Zhou personally directs Li to suppress the initial investigation 13 14.

Relationships

• Qian Huifang — Wife. Controls overseas financial channels implicated in his corruption network; the narrator kills her to attack Liu indirectly 8.
• Zhao Tingting — Only daughter, aged eighteen. Attends a top private university overseas and displays an extravagant lifestyle online. Anonymous allegations link her admission donation and properties to illicit funds 9.
• Qian Wei — Qian Huifang’s distant younger cousin. Holds a largely nominal position at a public institution under a department Liu oversees and handles her covert accounts and communications 10.
• Zhao Kun — Underground banking and gambling boss rumored to serve as a financial front for people in Liu’s circle 4.
• Li Mingyu — Prosecutor nominally leading Liu’s investigation. Accepts bribes and deliberately misdirects the case 13.
• Zhou Huaian — Higher-level protector and prospective successor to Li as the case’s leader. Receives illicit payments through his daughter’s foundation and orders the investigation suppressed 14.
• Zhang Zhiyuan — Police technical-investigation and information-security official reportedly holding private meetings with Liu’s associates. His supposed confession to leaking surveillance information is fabricated by the narrator 12.
• “The boss” / Wu Guoqiang — A mysterious superior stands behind Liu’s network. The narrator identifies Wu as a possible confidential courier used for Liu’s highest-level contacts; Wu’s death exposes the code SRO-7 11.
• Mentor — Warns the narrator against targeting Liu. The narrator initially interprets this as protection of sensitive interests, but later describes Liu as someone Mentor had sought to “clean up” 4 23.

Story Role / Major Arcs

The Forbidden Target

• Following Qian Hui’s public confession and death, an electronic caller identifies Liu as the third person on an internal list and names his government position. This demonstrates knowledge of the narrator’s information and introduces Liu as a politically sensitive target 3.
• The narrator postpones a direct attack, reasoning that killing Liu would confirm the caller’s suspicions and risk a less controllable retaliation. Instead, he targets Zhao Kun to test the forces surrounding Liu’s circle 4.
• Liu remains the boundary the narrator deliberately avoids while experimenting with other killings 5.

Attacks on His Family

Exposure of His Protectors

• Classified connections: The search for Liu’s mysterious superior leads the narrator to Wu Guoqiang. Wu’s disclosure of SRO-7 shifts the confrontation toward a classified organization 11.
• Fabricated internal betrayal: The narrator makes Zhang Zhiyuan leave a false suicide note admitting to leaks benefiting Liu’s faction and claiming responsibility for Wu’s murder and the code leak 12.
• Prosecutorial corruption: Li Mingyu publicly confesses to taking Liu’s bribes and misdirecting the investigation before killing himself at a press conference 13.
• Higher-level suppression: Zhou Huaian dies during an emergency meeting on Liu’s case after confessing to illicit payments and ordering Li to suppress the first investigation 14.
• Shift away from Liu: By Chapter 23, the narrator distinguishes Liu from Mentor’s indispensable SRO-7 personnel and chooses a core instructor as his next target. The supplied account does not establish Liu’s eventual fate 23.