Deputy Department Director Zhou watched Song Tianlin sob and plead, his face utterly expressionless.
He could now tell that Yan Li, the deputy corps commander with thick brows and large eyes, was only pretending to be stupid. This fat bastard who had committed rape, however, was genuinely stupid through and through!
Not every so-called second-generation official was an arrogant, lawless wastrel. But there was no denying that people born into powerful families were more likely to develop a habit of throwing their weight around and doing whatever they pleased.
Especially during this period, when oversight was inadequate and crackdowns lacked teeth, cases of officials' children committing crimes were all too common.
Take Song Tianlin, for instance. With his father serving as mayor of Chuanhai City, he had spent recent years bullying people and running amok there. His greatest pleasure was preying on respectable women. He had once boasted that of the 365 days in a year, not one went by without him getting laid.
Once Song Tianlin set his sights on someone, it made no difference whether she was married or single, mature or young, or what her background or social standing was. He would not stop until he had found a way to get his hands on her and use her until he grew bored.
Zhou Yi knew of Song Tianlin not merely because "Tianlin" sounded imposing, rolled off the tongue, and was easy to remember. More importantly, the man had single-handedly achieved the remarkable feat of bringing down his father, mother, paternal uncle, paternal aunt, and maternal uncle.
And for many years afterward, no one had managed to break that record.
Zhou Yi had no objection to Song Tianlin's arrest, or even to his being persuaded with physical force. The fat bastard deserved everything he got.
But he