At 8:20 that evening, Fang Hang returned to Qingning City. He sent his secretary and driver away, then drove alone to the Richman Nightclub.
In a luxurious private room, he met the woman who had once been his benefactor: Wang Qiong, from Capital City.
Why call her his "benefactor"?
Because he had spent six years as Executive Deputy Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau without a promotion. Yet a single word from Wang Qiong had secured him the director's chair, and less than three years later, he had become Vice Mayor of Qingning City.
In 2009, someone had reported him to the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission for keeping a mistress and raping a female university student. Thanks to Wang Qiong's intervention, he had miraculously emerged unscathed. Later, he had secretly disposed of the person who reported him.
After that, he had reined himself in considerably. Especially after Fu Xueqian took office, he had kept his head down and watched his step. His solid record of cracking cases and combating organized crime had earned Fu Xueqian's trust, allowing him to keep both Fu Xueqian and Wang Qiong happy. He had been on the verge of smoothly joining the Municipal Party Standing Committee.
Yet at that very moment, fate had played a deadly joke on him. Zhou Yi, the "Officialdom Killer," had been parachuted into Qingning. Just as the rumors claimed, he seemed to carry a lethal aura wherever he went. Within mere days of taking office, he had swung the executioner's blade at Fang Hang's neck.
The call earlier had been from Wang Qiong, ordering him to return to Qingning immediately and meet her.
"According to reliable information, both Zhou Yi and Fu Xueqian called the Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission. Then Zhou Yi personally took the documents and evidence there.