Besides Gu Sheng's photo, the newspaper also carried a picture of a room piled high with waste cardboard and aluminum cans.
The sight of those two photos killed Officer Wei's appetite.
Setting his coffee aside, Officer Wei read the entire newspaper before silently folding it up, putting it aside, and returning to his breakfast.
"Sir, you're here early! Finished with the paper? Let me borrow it!" An officer from Officer Wei's team came in, made a circuit of the room, and walked off with his newspaper.
Moments later, curses rang out outside.
"What the hell is Personnel doing?"
"What are you so angry about?"
"See for yourself!"
"Fuck, those bureaucrats in Personnel can eat shit!"
Plenty of them knew that the families of fallen colleagues weren't living well, but knowing was one thing. It had never hit home quite like these pictures and this article.
Their fallen colleagues' parents and children were struggling, and a triad boss had to pay to look after them.
Several Anti-Triad Squad officers were seething with anger and had no idea whom to direct it at.
Listening to the voices outside, Officer Wei sipped his coffee unhurriedly.
He had felt bad at first too, but then he quickly remembered something.
Handsome Sheng was an undercover officer he had sent out.
That thought made him feel much better.
Meanwhile, Yiu Yeuk-sing laid the newspaper on his desk and read it carefully once more, pressing a hand onto it that happened to cover Gu Sheng's face.
Yiu Yeuk-sing sighed softly.
"That guy..."
That edition of the newspaper caused quite a stir in Yuen Long, Kwai Tsing, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Causeway Bay, Aberdeen...
At Kowloon Police Station, Wah Sang tore the newspaper in his hands to shreds without expression and tossed it into the wastebasket.