Let them offer their loyalty!

Just then, Qiu Tu suddenly spoke, "Stop."

Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Tan Hui Min's body tensed up, then she slowly turned around, slightly "confused" as to why Qiu Tu would call out to her.

Then she saw Qiu Tu stand up expressionlessly, walk over to her, and then pulled her into his embrace.

Tan Hui Min tried to struggle, and even lowered her voice to plea quietly, "Officer, please... not here."

But Qiu Tu acted as if he didn't hear, his hand directly reaching under Tan Hui Min's clothes.

Tan Hui Min grabbed his hand, her face full of humiliation and anger.

Yet Qiu Tu unmercifully shook off her hand and reached in.

The next second, Qiu Tu pulled out a small tape recorder from under Tan Hui Min's skirt.

The tape in the small recorder was still spinning, obviously still on.

At the sight of the small tape recorder, Tan Hui Min's face turned deathly pale. The anger and humiliation on her face vanished.

Qiu Tu looked at her coldly.

Then with a "snap!" he threw the small tape recorder onto the ground, shattering it!

Tan Hui Min, disheveled, now had no courage to speak. All she could do was desperately try to hide the documents in her hands behind her back.

Qiu Tu looked at her expressionlessly and coldly ordered, "Kneel."

Upon hearing this, Tan Hui Min, although full of sorrow and anger, eventually knelt down humiliated. Read exclusive content at My Virtual Library Empire

Seeing this, Qiu Tu bent down, touched her fair face, and asked with apparent confusion, "Madam, why do you always like to create complications at the last minute?"

Kneeling on the ground, Tan Hui Min frantically tried to explain, "It's not like that, not like that...."

"I, I just...."

Before she could finish her sentence, Qiu Tu interrupted, "Just wanted to have a contingency plan? Have something to hold over me?"

"To prevent me from truly demanding compensation, having something to control me with? Or perhaps... if someone were to investigate this case, you could drag me down with you?"

Qiu Tu clearly struck a nerve with Tan Hui Min. Her face turned red with exertion, shaking her head repeatedly.

But by that time, Qiu Tu no longer wanted to hear Tan Hui Min's explanations.

He loosened his belt, simply staring at Tan Hui Min, the implication clear as day.

Tan Hui Min looked up at Qiu Tu with humiliation, her expression changing continuously, but in the end, she bowed her head....

Half an hour later, Qiu Tu held Tan Hui Min's heavy Yue Xiong piece and shuddered.

"Cough cough," Tan Hui Min turned her head, covering her mouth, nearly choking.

Seeing this, Qiu Tu released his hand, giving her a dark, unfathomable glance, then finally buckled his belt and returned to his desk.

Seeing Qiu Tu let her go, Tan Hui Min finally breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly got up, and walked towards the exit.

However, just as she stepped out of the office, Qiu Tu called out to her again, "Madam."

By now, Tan Hui Min was truly afraid of hearing these two words.

But when Qiu Tu called her, she had no choice but to stop and stand still.

Qiu Tu said expressionlessly, "Wait for me under my desk tomorrow morning."

Tan Hui Min's face flushed red, her fists clenched tightly.

But in the end, she just gave an "Mhm" and quickly walked out of the office.

After the office door slowly closed, Qiu Tu stood quietly for a while, then went over to the shattered tape recorder, picked up its remnants, took out the cassette, tore it up, and threw it into the trash can.

Having done all this, Qiu Tu returned to his desk, pondering the recent events.

In fact, with his personality, he would not normally let Tan Hui Min off so easily under normal circumstances. But now the overall situation was more pressing; he and Qin Shuman still needed Zheng Tao to investigate Larilo.

Thinking this, Qiu Tu looked towards the door of the office and softly muttered to himself,

'No rush... this piece of meat must be eaten slowly.'

.....

With the order signed by Qiu Tu, Zheng Tao was quickly released.

Since the relationship between the two hadn't been made public, Tan Hui Min didn't show much excitement, only her eyes reddening a bit as she looked at him.

And for some reason, Zheng Tao seemed to be preoccupied with thoughts, just looking down and not even making eye contact with Tan Hui Min....

After seeing Zheng Tao leave the Investigation Bureau, Tan Hui Min seemed to relax, as if a burden had been lifted from her shoulders.

She turned and went back into the Investigation Bureau to resume her busy work....

What she didn't know, though,

was that not far from the Investigation Bureau, several military-dressed security officers from the Security Department found Zheng Tao.

They showed him an arrest warrant signed by Dai Yu Kang, and without even giving Zheng Tao a chance to react, they handcuffed him and stuffed him into the car.

But Zheng Tao seemed to have anticipated such an event, offering almost no resistance, and was taken away calmly by the Security Department's people.

.....

An afternoon passed in the blink of an eye.

This afternoon was eerily calm.

Liu Xiongyuan did not advance to Fourth Order, Yan Chen did not seek revenge on Qiu Tu and Tang Feifei, and Ye Mingfeng's group did not openly search for Larilo....

The big shots sat down and had a good talk, reallocated the shares of Moonlight Lake.

Finally, the profit distribution was renegotiated in the ratio of 3:2.5:2.5:2.

Most notably, Xinjie City Investigation Bureau's share grew from the original 20% to 30%.

While both Xinjie City Military Department and Eastern City Investigation Bureau gave up 5% each.

The reason cited for this concession, of course, was Tang Feifei's dramatic intervention, which saved Moonlight Lake.