Gu Jiang, his wife, and their son Gu Xinwen could only bury their heads in their food in embarrassment.
They could not afford to offend Deputy Secretary Dai, but neither could they afford to offend Director Zhou. Besides, Qiqi had clearly been unwilling, yet they had repeatedly tried to force her and Dai Mingcheng together. They were indeed in the wrong.
That sense of being in the wrong had not come from a sudden awakening of conscience. It had only emerged after the Public Security Director had firmly declared his support for Gu Qiqi.
Come to think of it, they did not know whether Director Zhou had a girlfriend. Qiqi was beautiful as a flower. If the two could become a couple, he would certainly be a hundred times better than that misshapen runt Dai Mingcheng.
"That Zhou Yi isn't anything special. Even if he's the Public Security Director, doesn't he still answer to your Political and Legal Affairs Commission?"
Dai Zhengxing's wife, Zhuang Ping, discreetly tugged at her husband, reminding him that everyone at the table was watching. He must not bolster someone else's prestige at the expense of his own.
Dai Mingcheng nodded repeatedly beside them. His father was a deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, a bona fide section-level official of the same rank as Zhou Yi. Moreover, the commission supervised and guided the public security agencies, procuratorates, and courts, making it a higher administrative authority of sorts. There was no need to show that man Zhou any deference.
Dai Zhengxing thought, What the hell do you two know?
Even if the Public Security Bureau answered to the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, that did not mean Zhou Yi answered to him. Even leaders like Gong Li, Sun Yi, and Zuo Hongwei, all members