Wen Wan and Pang Ruiwu both gave Xie Chenglin a strange look.
If they remembered correctly, Vice Mayor Xie was married, and apparently had a daughter?
Which raised the question: when Zhuang Yuqian called herself Xie Chenglin's girlfriend, did she mean a female friend in the literal sense, or a lover with whom he shared an intimate relationship?
Mayor Zong Weixin sighed inwardly. Xie was certainly capable, young, and promising, but he was rather careless when it came to relationships with women.
There had already been rumors that, during his tenure as District Mayor of Wenxing District, he had had an affair with a female deputy secretary of the district Youth League committee. Her husband had even gone to the committee office to make a scene, but the matter had eventually fizzled out.
"I've only met Zhuang Yuqian a few times. At most, we're ordinary friends. The claim that she's my girlfriend is utterly groundless!" Vice Mayor Xie denied it with righteous indignation.
"We suspected Zhuang Yuqian was lying, too."
Director Zhou looked at Vice Mayor Xie with unreserved trust in his character and nodded. "Then she produced some photographs as proof, and we immediately suspected they had been doctored..."
Xie Chenglin's expression darkened again.
Wen Wan and Pang Ruiwu continued to give Xie Chenglin strange looks.
Meanwhile, Han Jianguo still had his hand against his forehead, covering his eyes-
What did I tell you? You were bound to regret this!
Zong Weixin's heart gave a jolt. Unless he was mistaken, Xiao Zhou had caught Xie with his pants down!
"But an examination by the criminal investigation technical unit found no signs that the photographs had been doctored!" Director Zhou continued with a sigh.
"What exactly are you trying to say? Stop beating around the bush!" Xie Chenglin steadied himself