Chapter 1 Someone Is Destined to Be Sleepless Tonight

Tonight, someone is destined to be sleepless.

At five o'clock in the morning, before the inky black of night had dissipated, police cars crisscrossed the major streets of Nan City, speeding by.

Soon, the police cars entered the wealthy district and villa area, and after a burst of noise and the sound of doors being broken down, minutes later, people were dragged from their beds with their hands cuffed behind their backs and shoved into police cars.

These people were all figures of great prominence, leaders in some of the most important industries in Nan City, but now they were being forcibly taken from their luxurious villas.

"On what basis are you arresting people at random? I am the chairman of Nanchen Company, an outstanding entrepreneur! This is a trampling of human rights!"

A portly businessman, before being stuffed into a police car, was still struggling and shouting, appearing greatly wronged.

If someone unaware of the situation were to see him, they might actually think he was a Dou E suffering an injustice!

*Slap!*

A stern-faced military policeman grabbed the businessman's pajama collar and said coldly, "Wang Degui, you beast... do you know Liu Hanyue?"

Liu Hanyue was the girl whose name had been recorded in the golden lotus woman’s ledger, the one bought by the businessman in front of him.

Upon hearing this name again, Wang Degui was instantly struck by lightning, his body stiffening, standing there with a deathly pale face.

"Where is she?" the stern-faced military policeman asked coldly, "Alive or... dead?"

Wang Degui trembled all over, then forcibly calmed himself, gritting his teeth and saying, "Before my lawyer arrives, I won't say a word!"

*Slap, slap!*

The stern-faced military policeman slapped Wang Degui twice across the face, then said coldly, "Take him away!"

Two military policemen, with indifferent expressions, shoved him into the police car with extremely rough movements.

"The girl wasn't found..." a military policeman walked out, shaking his head with a gloomy expression.

They had not found any trace of the girl in Wang Degui's villa.

This was not a good sign.

A shadow fell over the stern-faced military policeman's heart.

He raised his head, rubbed his extremely tired eyes, and said, "To the next one!"

Arresting these people was very difficult.

They were all rich, equipped with private bodyguards, and some had even developed into something akin to organized crime, with thugs under their command, daring to resist even the military police.

Just minutes before, the stern-faced military policeman had received a call from a colleague, saying that while arresting a suspect named Wang Tian, they had been attacked by armed thugs under his command, and two colleagues had been shot multiple times and sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.

"Everyone, be careful, these guys are no good, they might have prohibited weapons more powerful than handguns."

The stern-faced military policeman instructed his colleagues who were acting with him, looking off into the distance.

Although there were risks and resistance in arresting these people, they were only physical, and as long as they suppressed the other party, there were no real difficulties.

But Yuan Wen was in for a tougher time.

The suspects she was arresting were the most special ones, and the resistance she would encounter would be invisible, but also the greatest.

...

Wang Dongchuan, wearing close-fitting pajamas, walked down from the bed in his study and made himself a cup of strong tea.

While waiting for the tea to cool, Wang Dongchuan went to the bathroom and quickly washed up.

It was now five-thirty in the morning.

The night sky had not yet dissipated.

But Wang Dongchuan was already accustomed to this routine. Since entering the core of the council's power, he had never dared to let himself slack off for a single day.

Among the six people in the core of power of the Nan City Council, although he was not the highest in rank, he was the youngest.

Moreover, the Speaker was getting old and had begun to gradually delegate power.

With less than two months left before the next council election, everyone could see that the old Speaker wanted to retire.

As for the position of the new Speaker, all five people in the core of power could compete, but Wang Dongchuan had been the most prominent in recent years and had the greatest chance of taking the position.

As long as Wang Dongchuan didn't run into any problems in these last two months, he would basically be guaranteed the position of the next Speaker!

Now, the old Speaker had already begun to let Wang Dongchuan handle documents that only the Speaker had the authority to handle, which was enough to show his attitude.

And Wang Dongchuan had not disappointed the old Speaker's expectations. Since he had taken over the Speaker's work, he had handled all matters in an orderly manner, earning several praises from higher-ups.

However, he had been somewhat irritable recently.

Because of the world's changes.

Thugs led by Wells had appeared in Nan City, rampaging and causing trouble, but the military police had failed to eliminate them. Instead, a young man had led a team to wipe them out.

This incident made him lose face.

It was his dereliction of duty!

And Li Tianran's actions were also somewhat like... stepping out of line!

Eliminating bandits was clearly the responsibility of the Nan City administrators, but a nobody like you did it. Didn't this indirectly show that the Nan City administrators were a bunch of good-for-nothings?

After that incident, Wang Dongchuan issued an almost cold-blooded order to the military police, fully affirming Li Tianran's courageous spirit while also pointing out the dangers of his actions, and hinting to Yang Yong of the military police to deal with Li Tianran.

This was not petty.

But a kind of... power play!

If all the residents of Nan City were like Li Tianran, then his existence as an administrator would be ignored by everyone, and there would be no need for him to exist!

To avoid this situation from happening, Wang Dongchuan had to nip this trend in the bud.

But what he didn't expect was that Yuan Zhenghong of the military police department had taken out a highly confidential document and bluntly rejected his request, protecting Li Tianran.

That document was issued by the Ministry of National Security, and the political department also approved it. He had no chance to argue with Yuan Zhenghong at all.

This incident gave him a very bad feeling.

A feeling that things were beyond his control.

"The world is changing... the situation in Yan Huang is deteriorating, and in the future, a military-political integration policy may be implemented..." Wang Dongchuan murmured to himself, his tone somewhat low.

Once the military-political integration policy was implemented, it would indicate that Yan Huang had entered a state of total war. At that time, there would no longer be a political department. The political department would be merged into the Ministry of National Security, and the leader of a city would be taken over by the military region.

And these original council members, those who performed well during their tenure, might be assigned to the same level positions in a military region, while those who performed mediocrely or even poorly would be demoted or even kicked out of the power structure.

Wang Dongchuan didn't want to have any problems at this time!

What he needed now was stability!

And Li Tianran's appearance made him feel unstable...

Just then, his wife knocked on the door of the study and said softly, "Dongchuan, Councilor Li and Councilor Guo are here, waiting for you in the hall."

Wang Dongchuan frowned. He glanced at the time and muttered to himself, "Why... are they looking for me at this time?"