“Who… are you?” Li Hao’s heart shook. Was the old man really just a deputy director general?0

“Me?” Deputy Zhou smiled. “Don’t worry, I mean you no harm. Not just me, but the entire provincial government means you no harm. Neither I nor Director General Zhou wish to see any mishap befall you. I tell you this only to help you understand… and not be hoodwinked by certain people.”2

“Director Hou?” Li Hao frowned. “The director wants nothing more than to claim the Black Tortoise Seal. So this means that he wants to do something to me too?”0

“That’s not necessarily it, just that Hou Xiaochen has bigger ambitions than most. It’s normal for him to have his own thoughts. He wants to leverage this opportunity to set foot into the next stage. The director doesn’t wish to live out the rest of his life like the rest of us. Thus, he’s been raising the greatest fuss in Silver Moon over these years.”0

Li Hao was already repeating a litany of fuckity fuck fucks to himself. What the hell?! So the internal dispute in Silver Moon is centered on Hou Xiaochen and the provincial government? So that argument they had before wasn’t an act,...6