Just how outrageously bold did someone have to be to speak so disrespectfully to the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee's Political and Legal Affairs Commission in public?
Li Linsen and the other police officers could not help feeling admiration. They knew Deputy Director Min had been acting "crazy" these past two days, but they had never imagined he could take it this far.
"Who gave you the nerve to speak to me like that?" Liu Wenjie was so furious that he laughed, then asked coldly as he stared at the man.
"Party discipline and the law of the land!"
Deputy Director Min answered with righteous conviction.
"Who are you trying to fool? You think I don't know what kind of scum you are, Min Aiwu? You used to cower like a dog. Now that Zhou Yi's backing you, look how full of yourself you've become!" Zhang Hao could not resist sneering.
Min Aiwu replied without a change in expression, "People change. Take you, for example. Haven't you gone from Brother Hao, who could call all the shots, to a homeless cur skulking from one hiding place to another?"
"You... you fucking..."
That reply finished Zhang Hao off on the spot. His face turned livid, and for a long while he could not get a word out.
"I've seen plenty of opportunists like you, fishing for fame. You want to lecture me on Party discipline and national law? Did they teach you that subordinates must obey their superiors? As your superior, I'm ordering you to leave this place immediately."
Liu Wenjie looked at the reckless brute who dared defy him and spoke with utter disdain.
"Fishing for fame, am I? An opportunist, am I?" Those two accusations struck a raw nerve in Min Aiwu.
His expression suddenly twisted. He took