"Hello, Minister Qian. Hello, Secretary-General..." Zhou Yi shook hands one by one with Provincial Party Committee Publicity Department head Qian Jin, Secretary-General He Bin, and the other accompanying officials behind them.
"It's been a few years, Xiao Zhou, and you look more impressive than ever!"
He Bin held Zhou Yi's hand a little longer than the others, his expression and tone unusually warm.
He had once served as Jian Wanyan's secretary. Eight years earlier, when Jian Wanyan took charge of Liaodong, He Bin had been Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee and director of the General Office, and had met Zhou Yi then. Later, when he went to Beijing to visit his former leader, he had also encountered Zhou Yi several times at the leader's home.
The leader's son-in-law was certainly one of their own!
Looking back, before Zhou Yi and Jian Shuyue had even started dating, He Bin had been the one who, at Jian Shuyue's request, called Chai Xiongwei, then mayor of Anping, to get Zhou Yi out of trouble after the Procuratorate opened an investigation into him.
Even then, he had sensed that this young man, who had won the Provincial Party Committee Secretary's daughter's favor, was destined for a meteoric rise and a boundless future.
But he had never imagined just how "boundless" that future would be.
In only seven or eight years, Zhou Yi had already become the Municipal Party Secretary of a prefecture-level city. Leaving age aside, his current credentials put him just one step away from the deputy ministerial level.
His status as the leader's son-in-law certainly played a part in that "boundless" future, but more important was Zhou Yi's exceptional ability to keep creating miracles.
Accompanied by Zhou Yi, Li Yang, and the others, Secretary Lan and the visiting officials and