Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

At three in the morning, the city bureau building was still brightly lit.

A black Rolls-Royce Phantom drove up the steps of the police station in an almost savage manner, its four tires screeching as they rubbed against the marble, nearly uprooting the two pine trees that greeted guests at the entrance.

The car door opened, and a middle-aged man in a tailored suit, with a large belly, stepped out angrily. He was Long Zesi's father, Long Xiaotian, the head of the board of directors of St. Fino Noble Academy.

He was followed by four bodyguards, all dressed in suits, looking menacing, like gangsters in a movie going to collect protection money.

"Who's in charge?! Get out here!"

Long Xiaotian kicked open the glass door of the reception hall, his face, swollen from excessive indulgence, filled with rage. "Where's my son? Bring out that damned little bastard Lu Jingyan! I'll skin him alive today!"

The young police officers on night duty in the lobby had never seen anything like this before. They were so frightened that they jumped up from their chairs and frantically reached for their batons at their waists.

"Sir! This is the police station! Please calm down!"

"Calm down, you motherfucker!" Long Xiaotian shoved aside the police officer who tried to stop him, spitting everywhere. "My son was beaten here! This is illegal detention! This is abuse of power! I'm going to sue you! I'm going to get you all fired!"

Just as chaos erupted in the hall, a clear, cold voice came from the second-floor stairwell. It wasn't loud, but it was like an icicle, instantly piercing through all the noise.

"Chairman Long, what a display of official power!"

Everyone looked up.

Lu Jingyan was slowly descending the stairs. He had changed out of his combat uniform and was now wearing a clean white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, revealing a section of his well-defined forearm. His gold-rimmed glasses reflected a cold light under the lamp, making him look like a precise, emotionless machine.

Behind him followed Zhao Tiezhu and Su Xiaoxiao, who had also changed back into casual clothes.

"You're Lu Jingyan?"

Long Xiaotian narrowed his eyes, staring intently at the culprit who had sent his son to "hell," his gaze so vicious it seemed he wanted to devour him. "You little bastard, you've got some nerve! You dare to touch my son! Do you believe I can make you…"

"What did you ask me to do?"

Lu Jingyan walked up to him, his height advantage allowing him to look down at the greasy middle-aged man. "Make me disappear from Jinghai? Or make my whole family pay with their lives for your son?"

He actually repeated exactly what he had threatened on the phone!

Long Xiaotian was stunned, then flew into a rage: "You dare to wiretap my phone?!"

"monitor?"

Lu Jingyan smiled, a smile full of pity for someone ignorant of the law. "Chairman Long, your son called you using a public phone at our correctional center. Recording the entire call is standard procedure. I was just fulfilling my duty, listening to your 'family conversation'."

After saying that, he took out a small voice recorder from his pocket and pressed the play button.

"...Dad! It was all that policeman named Lu Jingyan who did it! He's a devil! You have to kill him! I'll make his whole family pay with their lives!"

"Good, good, good! A little cop who doesn't know his place dares to mess with my son, Long Xiaotian! I'll see how many lives he has!"

The clear conversation echoed in the silent hall.

The color drained completely from Long Xiaotian's face in an instant.

"You...you're taking this out of context! It's a trap!" He panicked.

"Whether it's a trap or not, the judge will decide."

Lu Jingyan put away the recorder, his smile vanishing instantly, replaced by a suffocating coldness. "Long Xiaotian, what you just said constitutes a death threat. Now, I formally warn you that your actions are suspected of intimidating and threatening the safety of a state public official."

"I...I was just saying that in anger!"

"Legally, there is no such thing as 'talking in anger,' only 'criminal acts.'"

Lu Jingyan pressed forward relentlessly, his powerful aura forcing Long Xiaotian to retreat repeatedly. "Your son was involved in school bullying and gang fights; the evidence is irrefutable. We legally sent him to the Juvenile Behavior Correction Center; the procedures were legal and all the paperwork was complete. You, however, led a group to storm a government office late at night, roared in court, and threatened law enforcement officers. Chairman Long, is your act of knowingly breaking the law in order to go to jail with your son during military training?"

"How dare you!" Long Xiaotian roared, his voice trembling with fear. "I'm a board member of St. Fino Academy! A major taxpayer in Jinghai City! What right do you have to arrest me without evidence?"

"evidence?"

Lu Jingyan looked as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world. He turned and winked at Su Xiaoxiao.

Su Xiaoxiao immediately understood and slammed a folder onto the reception desk in front of Long Xiaotian.

"Chairman Long, this is a little 'gift' that our special investigation team has prepared for you over the past two hours. Please take a look."

Long Xiaotian opened the folder with trembling hands, and after just one glance, his pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints.

That page was covered with "dirt" on St. Fino Noble Academy!

"The so-called 'Australian imported steak' purchased by your school cafeteria has been found to be synthetic meat from a certain place in Henan, with a cost price of no more than ten yuan per kilogram."

"Your school charges each student a 'school construction sponsorship fee' of up to 500,000 yuan, but this money did not go into the school's public account, but was directly transferred to a shell company that you personally control."

"Furthermore, regarding your use of your position as a school board member to embezzle school funds to purchase properties overseas, and your inappropriate relationships with multiple female teachers..."

With each point Lu Jingyan made, Long Xiaotian's face paled a little more.

These were all his flawless secrets. How did this kid, who'd only been a policeman for a few days, find out all this in just two hours?!

"Impossible... This is all slander! It's forged!" he roared hysterically, trying to tear the documents up.

"Whether it's forged or not, the disciplinary committee and the economic crime investigation team will give you a fair judgment."

Lu Jingyan waved to Zhao Tiezhu behind him, "Tiezhu, take Chairman Long to where he needs to be. Tell the brothers in the Economic Crime Investigation Division that this big fish will keep them busy for a while."

"Yes, Captain Lu!"

Zhao Tiezhu grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth. He grabbed Long Xiaotian by the back of his collar like he was picking up a chick.

"No! You can't arrest me! I'm a member of the school board! I am..."

Long Xiaotian's pig-like screams were roughly interrupted by Zhao Tiezhu, who dragged him out of the hall.

The four bodyguards, who had been so aggressive, were now trembling with fear, crouching in the corner with their heads in their hands, terrified that they would be next.

"As for you few," Lu Jingyan glanced at them, "obstructing official business, fifteen days of administrative detention. Go in and line up to register yourselves."

The bodyguards, as if granted a pardon, scrambled towards the registration window.

A farce will end here.

In the entire hall, only a few dumbfounded police officers on duty and Su Xiaoxiao, who was frantically typing on her keyboard and broadcasting this "divine reversal" to the entire internet, remained.

Lu Jingyan walked to the window, looked at the Rolls-Royce abandoned on the steps, and the gradually brightening sky in the distance, and gently exhaled a breath of stale air.

[Ding! The host pulled out a radish and brought out the mud along with it, successfully taking down a corrupt official in the education sector!]

[Righteousness Value +100000!]

The skill "Business Crime Insight (Beginner)" has been released!

He could feel a new chain of knowledge and logic flowing into his mind, giving him a deeper understanding of those complex methods of commercial crime.

"Captain Lu...you...did you know he was coming all along?" Su Xiaoxiao leaned closer, holding her tablet, her eyes filled with admiration.

"have no idea."

Lu Jingyan shook his head and said honestly, "I'm just used to thoroughly investigating the entire family before arresting any suspect."

He looked out the window at the city gradually returning to order, a barely perceptible smile playing on his lips.

"It's dawn. Time to go see the new look of that 'noble academy'."