In a single day, more than a dozen officials of various levels in Jiangnan were secretly taken away by the Disciplinary Committee, and He Li, who held office in the governmental field of the He Family, could not escape. In addition to him, members of the He Family's second generation led by He Rui as well as the heir apparent He Fenghua were successively taken away by the police.
A storm had abruptly risen in Hanghu's realm of officials and businessmen...
However—
Xu Weize, the key figure who had sparked this storm, was completely unaware of all this.
After leaving the police station, he returned home to vent his anger on women and numb himself with alcohol.
The reason he did so was that he knew that although He Fenghua hadn't given up on him, his role in He Fenghua's chessboard had significantly decreased.
