Chapter 55: Victory
Discovering the suspicious aspects of Li Kun and his associates had been pure coincidence, though it also had something to do with Su Can's experiences in his previous life. In Su Can's memory, the construction of Xinghai Square in Xiahai City would take four years. Even during his university vacations after graduating from high school, it had still been under construction.
Xinghai Square had still been under construction, but in that previous life, Li Yinhe's fraud ring had dealt the Xiahai City government a heavy blow. Naturally, Xinghai Square had been left unfinished, bringing the municipal project to a temporary halt. Clearly, the news had been kept from the public during the period before a new construction company took over.
The upheaval within the city government must have been no less than an earthquake. Back in that previous life, some people had reached the end of their political careers, while others had been dismissed and investigated, falling from their lofty positions. Here and now, in this other plane of existence, none of that had happened, because of Su Can.
Forty-five-year-old Liu Lan let out a deep breath in the Party secretary's office. In the ashtray on the rosewood desk behind him, cigarette ash had accumulated like a bountiful mound of grain. Only now did he realize he had survived a calamity. Xiahai City's development had been an uphill struggle. Its only links to the outside were an airport barely large enough for small aircraft to take off and land, and a railway running through the vast western region. Economically, it could not rise above the province's twenty prefecture-level cities. Its repeated applications for tourist-city status had been rejected for various reasons.
To be honest, this Municipal Party Committee secretary had many difficulties that outsiders knew nothing about.