Once, I wanted to be a good person

Hearing the mouse's words, Zhen Youcai sat down on the chair and then nodded, saying, "The plan is going very smoothly."

And hearing the words of that girl, Shen Yayun put away her smile, her face expressionless, and said, "Not bad, Fang Ze... should have felt my 'goodwill'."

In two different offices, upon hearing their words, the mouse and the girl couldn't help but laugh...

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Zhen Youcai's office.

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While gesturing for the mouse to pour him water, Zhen Youcai, with his pot belly leaning back in his chair, said, "Mouse, you can't say, your idea was really not bad."

"It allows us to avoid direct confrontation with Fang Ze while stealthily replacing Old Zhuang and reaping the fisherman's benefits."

While pouring water for Zhen Youcai, the mouse said obsequiously, "Director, it wasn't my idea, it was all your own doing."

He said, "Fang Ze is a madman. Why should we provoke him?"

"If we provoke him and he gets furious, making a scene with us, wouldn't we be the ones to suffer in the end?"

"So, we should just treat him like a Buddha installed there for worship."

"Moreover, let everyone know that we are honoring him."

"Whatever he wants, we'll give him. Whatever he does, we'll completely ignore."

"If he succeeds, we'll get a share of the glory."

"Even if he does mess up. Since we supported him so thoroughly, who could possibly find fault with us? Could they really make us take the blame?"

"Thus, this is truly standing on invincible ground."

"Besides, he has set himself the goal of doubling the time externally, which is already very difficult."

"If we really tripped him up, and he fails, who would it be counted against, right?"

"So, we should just patiently wait. Let's see if he really is as amazing as he boasts."

"Doubling the time, huh!"

"Now, it's quite astonishing that we can train a group of recruits in roughly three months."

"In the neighboring city, some even take half a year to train one group."

"Does he mean to say, he will be four times faster than the neighboring city?"

"So, we must absolutely not make trouble, just watch his own performance. Don't give him any excuses."

"Furthermore, it's not only us who dislike him. If he really does succeed, Director Zhuang and Director Shen over there might take action."

"We just need to sit back and watch."

Zhen Youcai nodded in laughter, satisfied, and looked at the mouse, saying, "Not bad, not bad. Your idea is very good. I'm quite pleased."

The mouse hurriedly smiled obsequiously, picked up the teacup, and passed it to Zhen Youcai, "It's all thanks to the Director's nurturing over the years."

"Hahaha," Zhen Youcai laughed as he took the teacup and drained it in one gulp...

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Meanwhile, in Shen Yayun's office.@@novelbin@@

Shen Yayun was also chatting with her subordinates.

Contrary to her eager demeanor in front of Fang Ze just before, her face now bore a mocking smile as she said, "Commissioner Jiang asked me to make things difficult for Fang Ze."

"But to openly make things difficult for him, that's too asinine."

"Isn't that just letting everyone know that we have a problem?"

"So... on the surface, we must appear to have a very good relationship with him, the kind that's so convincing, no one can see through it!"

"Then... we move quietly afterwards."

"Moreover... we must not act within our own department, that would be too suspicious."

"... we need to use the tactic of surrounding Wei to save Zhao..."

At this point, she glanced at the girl, then asked, "Are you sure Fang Ze has not received any clues about Hua Jian to this day?"

The girl nodded and said quietly, "I've arranged for people to keep watch at the Security Bureau's entrance. Others have been monitoring Fang Ze's movements."

"Recently, he's indeed been busy with cultivation and joining the job, not dealing with cases or investigations."

Shen Yayun nodded and then said, "Okay. I got it."

"Tonight, help me arrange a meeting with Director Qin from the Case Affairs Department. Just say... I have something I want to discuss with him."

At this, her face once again revealed a mocking smile...

......

Meanwhile, Fang Ze, having finished his meeting, was walking to the training center and felt something was amiss.

During his exchange with Zhen Youcai and Shen Yayun earlier, he didn't feel anything amiss.

But after chatting with Bai Zhi for a while and coming out, he felt something was off.

Because he seemed to vaguely overhear quite a few people discussing the recent meeting of the Personnel Department.

Most of their discussions revolved around how much favor he had received and how welcomed and supported he was.

The deputy directors who were supposed to be at odds with him were curiously showing goodwill towards him instead.

Even the directors who wanted to set traps for him could only keep drinking tea incessantly to hide their discomfiture.

Afterwards, the topic of discussion was envy towards his future.

In their view, with so much support, he should be able to easily achieve results and quickly get promoted again...

And listening to those words, the term 'built up to take down' involuntarily sprang to Fang Ze's mind.

Building someone up to take them down was a very useful strategy: it could diminish the value of the adversary's success, and in case of the adversary's failure, it could lead to kicking them when they're down, faster.

However... alas, for Fang Ze, none of this was a big deal.

Built up to take down? But first you have to build them up, then take them down!