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Huo Zilong was formidable and would use any means necessary to achieve his goals, and he was quite cunning. Additionally, with someone providing him protection from behind the scenes, it was not easy to take Huo Zilong down. Ye Fan was figuring out that to catch Huo Zilong, he must first deal with the deputy director and Li Donglei who provided him with the protective umbrella.
One was the deputy director holding great authority, who already seemed to have intentions above his position, meddling in the bureau's affairs and acting insufferably arrogant. The other was the influential captain of a powerful team; as the saying goes, the local enforcer is more daunting than a distant official. Li Donglei, always at the frontline, wielded a great deal of actual power.
