Xiao Song glanced at her but was not at all distracted by her attempt to change the subject, "As an officer of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, I may let him off temporarily, but I cannot let him go for a lifetime. Either he will be arrested by me and brought to justice, or I will have to roll down from the position of Assistant Minister of Ministry of Justice, or he will have to assassinate me—there is no fourth possibility. So if you insist on being close to him, don't blame me when the time comes."
Though there is a Minister of the Ministry of Justice above the Assistant Minister, it has always been the case on the official court that when blame comes down from above, it's those who do the actual work who have to bear it. The Minister of the Ministry of Justice cannot escape responsibility, but the first to suffer will surely be those below him.
