In the second-floor study of the residence now known as No. 1 on Hong Kong Island, halfway up Victoria Peak.
Zhou Quan displayed his increasingly practiced, natural tea-making skills as he served his boss a cup of tea.
Given Zhou Quan's current power and standing, across all of Hong Kong Island today,
only two men qualified as bosses whom he would treat with such respect.
They were his immediate superior, the Police Force Number One, and Hong Kong Island's most powerful figure, Mr. Dong.
These two had valued and supported Zhou Quan throughout his career, helping him reach his present position.
Apart from them, even the heads of the Three Secretaries and Thirteen Bureaus were merely higher-ranking superiors.
Even the Secretary for Security, who nominally oversaw the Police Force, could not be called Sir Kwan's boss in that sense.
As for Wong Bing Yiu and Lee Man-bun, they were elders in his family and likewise did not fall into that category.
Besides, in certain respects, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Zhou's power was now no less than that of DCP Operations Wong.
His uncle Lee Man-bun was now only at the same rank as him.
Judging by the seats in the Police Force's core management, the director of the National Security Department sometimes even carried slightly more weight than the director of the Operations Department.
A Senior Assistant Commissioner in his early thirties, Zhou Quan possessed unquestionable ability and credentials, but the support of Mr. Dong and Number One had also been crucial.
For precisely that reason, Zhou Quan held profound respect and gratitude for both his bosses.
There was no question why this residence could be called No. 1: only the home of Mr. Dong, the head of the Hong Kong Government, qualified.
Although Hong Kong Island had fully