In name only: The land of Handong, I shall rule its fate.

trial room.

Lin Zhengxin looked as if he had lost his parents, his head bowed low, almost burying it in his chest.

"Let's start by talking about the large sum of money in your mother's account that came from unknown sources, and your usual extravagant spending that exceeds your salary level."

Lü Liang asked casually.

"My salary is meager and not enough to support my family. My mother is wealthy, so it's not unreasonable for her to help our little family, is it?"

Lin Zhengxin defended himself.

"Heh, your mother has no wealthy family background and no investment history. Where did the 30 million in the account come from? And why is the payment from Linzhong Technology?"

Lüliang pressed closer and closer.

"My mom is the vice president of Linzhong Technology, earning over a million yuan a year. Isn't it normal for her to have that much money?"

"oh!"

"You mean a vice president with no attendance record, who knows absolutely nothing about finance and investment, and who suddenly started holding a nominal position in his forties?"

Lü Liang retorted ruthlessly.

"I…"

Lin Zhengxin's face flushed red.

"explain!"

Lü Liang roared, "Did you use your relationship with Wu Huifen to obtain information about Governor Qiu from the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and then plan and carry out the attack for Dong Qing of Linzhong Technology?"

"I don't!"

Lin Zhengxin struggled violently, shouting, "You have no evidence! You're trying to induce me to confess! I'm going to sue you! I'm a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Law at Han University. Don't think I don't know the law!"

"No evidence?"

Lü Liang smiled and said, "The 30 million in your mother's account is the evidence! One million of it was deposited suddenly in the middle of the month, which is completely different from the usual monthly deposit of 300,000. That's the evidence."

"besides…"

"You and Wu Huifen had been meeting frequently in secret for some time, thinking that we wouldn't be able to find out if you chose to meet in upscale residential areas? You're underestimating the investigative capabilities of the public security, procuratorate, and judicial authorities."

Lu Liang took out a stack of surveillance photos from the file bag. Some showed him and Wu Huifen entering the same apartment in the same building on the same floor of the same residential complex one after the other, while others showed them leaving hand in hand intimately. All of these photos confirmed that the two had an improper relationship.

"What are you trying to do, nanny who has been engaging in improper contact with members of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee for a long period of time?!"

Nanny!

Lin Zhengxin, however, was completely distracted by two words in the text.

"Professor Wu is not Secretary Gao's wife..."

Lin Zhengxin realized what was happening and stopped talking abruptly.

"oh!"

Lü Liang smirked. "It seems you know Wu Huifen's identity and that's all you're after."

"So it was Wu Huifen who helped you persuade Secretary Gao to use the internal staffing quota of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission to transfer you from a lecturer at Han University to the office of the Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission."

Lin Zhengxin's health completely collapsed; this alone was enough to end his life.

"You enjoy scheming so much."

Lü Liang spoke again, "Have you considered why, after all these years, they haven't even been promoted to associate professor?"

Lin Zhengxin looked up in a daze, a terrifying guess spreading through his mind.

How is this possible! How is this possible!

Wu Huifen was merely a history professor, and unless she used Gao Yuliang's influence, it was impossible for her to block his promotion. However, given Gao Yuliang's pursuit of elegance, he would absolutely not agree if the Department of Political Science and Law of Wuhan University asked him for confirmation.

And at the very beginning...

He doesn't even know Wu Huifen yet!

"You've been with Wu Huifen for so long, don't you know that one of the initiators of the reconstruction of the Department of Political Science and Law after the split of Han University was surnamed Wu?"

"Over the past few decades."

"There are also two department heads surnamed Wu."

Lüliang was like a cat playing with a mouse, teasing the thief in front of him step by step.

Wu Huifen is such an interesting woman!

No wonder she became best friends with Liang Lu; her methods were far more sophisticated.

"How could this happen!"

Lin Zhengxin's emotions gradually collapsed.

If he had been promoted smoothly, why would he have gotten involved with Wu Huifen, an old woman twenty years his senior? And if he hadn't gotten involved, why would he have been threatened by Dong Qing after the Lin family's downfall?

"I have another piece of news for you."

Lü Liang kindly reminded her, "While you are being interrogated, Chief Prosecutor Zhang is personally interrogating Wu Huifen in the next interrogation room..."

The words were concise and to the point.

But it leaves endless room for imagination.

"I confess! I admit it!"

Lin Zhengxin roared, his eyes filled with a madness that wanted to drag everything into the abyss.

"Then tell me, did you do what Governor Qiu did? Explain the whole story clearly."

Lü Liang shouted.

"Dong Qing's wife is my half-sister. At my father's behest, my mother was on secondment at Linzhong Technology and received a salary of 300,000 yuan per month."

"At the beginning of the month, the Lin family had an incident, and everyone was taken away for investigation. Linzhong Technology also began to be subject to various investigations."

"Dong Qing approached me and threatened me with the fact that my mother was the mistress of the Lin family and held a temporary post, asking me to investigate the internal affairs of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission through Wu Huifen."

Dong Qing knew very well that although Governor Qiu was investigating the case, it was under the jurisdiction of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Procuratorate. I roughly deduced Governor Qiu's investigation process and action trajectory from some documents.

He told Dong Qing in private.

He gave me a phone number in Luzhou and told me to pass on the message, and then Governor Qiu got into trouble.

"I really don't know anything else."

"Using your position to investigate the whereabouts of a vice-governor, leaving his fate unknown—do you know how serious that crime is?!"

Lü Liang grabbed the file folder beside him and threw it directly at them.

"I just want to live a good life. They forced me into this. It's all the Lin family's fault, all Dong Qing's fault! And Wu Huifen! And Wu Huifen!"

Lin Zhengxin appeared deranged, but his eyes shone with an alarming intensity. "I'm going to report Wu Huifen! Yes, I'm going to report Wu Huifen!"

The interrogation room next door.

"Yes! I admit I have moral flaws. If Gao Yuliang can remarry a woman more than 20 years younger, why can't I? Teacher Lin is young and promising, handsome, and we are both teachers at Han University. That's how I caught his eye. I was attracted to his good looks, and he was attracted to my relationship, so it was only natural that we got together."

Wu Huifen, with her legs crossed, spoke confidently and without a trace of shame or evasion as she recounted her private affairs to Zhang Guofeng.

"As for the rest, I don't know."

"I didn't want my daughter, who was studying abroad, to worry, so I never revealed my relationship with Professor Xiaolin. The only thing I did was to take advantage of our 20 years of marriage and Gao Yuliang's guilt to help him get an internal position in the Political and Legal Affairs Commission after he repeatedly failed to be promoted to associate professor."

"But I must clarify one point: Ms. Kobayashi's knowledge and abilities are sufficient."

"As for the rest, I don't know."

"I was with Ms. Kobayashi just for fun and for revenge."

"Whether before or after my divorce from Gao Yuliang, I never interfered in his work, and Teacher Xiaolin would never get any information about the Provincial Party Committee or the Political and Legal Affairs Commission from me."

Wu Huifen spoke with absolute certainty and confidence, showing no sign of the panic one would expect from a defendant, as if she were treating the interrogation room as her own lecture hall.

Boom boom boom!

A knock came at the door.