Chapter 14: When You Do Something Wrong, You Have to Apologize

Until Yu Dazhang carried the suspect to the car, Zhao Hang's mind was still in a daze.

He had watched the whole scene from start to finish.

He'd thought Yu Dazhang was in for more misfortune than good, but the guy not only came out fine—he'd knocked the suspect out and brought him back.

The most infuriating part was that bastard had even thrown in a bit of roguery along the way.

What Zhao Hang saw as a life-and-death matter, Yu Dazhang treated with such casual ease.

At that moment, Zhao Hang's whole worldview shattered.

Turns out comparing yourself to someone really can make you die of frustration~

A few crisp "tap tap" raps snapped Zhao Hang back to his senses.

"Come out and give me a hand," Yu Dazhang knocked hard on the car window:

"Can't you see I'm carrying a person!"

"Oh, oh, right." Zhao Hang hurried to open the door and get out, and together with another rookie, took the suspect off Yu Dazhang's shoulder.

"Cuff him," Yu Dazhang ordered:

"When Master and the others get here, hand him straight over to the First Brigade."

Zhao Hang immediately complied, pulling out handcuffs and locking the suspect's wrists together.

He himself hadn't even realized that now whatever Yu Dazhang said carried absolute authority with him.

In fact, Lu Zhongxin and the First Brigade people had already arrived when Yu Dazhang was approaching Qu Tuotuo.

Wei Qian, afraid of alerting the suspect, had ordered the First Brigade to hold position and not move forward.

When they saw Yu Dazhang drag the suspect out of the car, they finally breathed a sigh of relief and moved into action at the same time.

The First Brigade officers went to the Qu family's front gate, while Wei Qian and Lu Zhongxin's group came over to Yu Dazhang.

"Master, you're finally here," Yu Dazhang complained.

If Lu Zhongxin and Wei Qian had come a little earlier, he wouldn't have had to take the risk.

It was way too dangerous—if he hadn't had Qu Tuotuo as cover, Yu Dazhang figured he'd already be a ghost shot by a gun.

Just thinking about it now gave him the shivers.

The moment he imagined what if the victim had been a man, things would've really been done for.

Kissing a man… Yu Dazhang would rather take a bullet.

"You rascal."

Lu Zhongxin punched Yu Dazhang, but without any real force.

Before getting out of the car, Lu Zhongxin had still been planning to lecture this disciple a few times, but once he was actually in front of him, all his attention went to checking for wounds.

Seeing Yu Dazhang wasn't hurt, he finally let his worried heart settle back into his stomach.

"I need to head back first," Yu Dazhang shot a glance toward the Qu family's front gate.

Lu Zhongxin immediately understood what he meant.

He had seen everything Yu Dazhang had done just now.

"You go back to the station with Little Zhao and the others. The case is wrapping up for now, and you won't be much help from here on."

What remained was the First Brigade's business—Yu Dazhang's group had only come to provide support in the first place.

Over the next few days, the First Brigade stayed very busy.

The mastermind was caught and gave up two other accomplices, so the First Brigade still had to continue making arrests.

After that came interrogation, investigation, and evidence collection—the main thing was still to see if any culprits had been missed.

During this time, Yu Dazhang was personally picked up by Wei Qian and brought to the First Brigade.

The reason given was that they needed his help with the investigation.

After all, both the kidnappers and the mastermind had been caught by Yu Dazhang himself.

Now every single person in the First Brigade was full of respect for Yu Dazhang, no longer seeing him as an ordinary rookie.

The entire First Brigade had spent five days without finding a single trace of the mastermind.

Yet the moment this kid came to support them, he'd caught the mastermind.

This was undoubtedly equivalent to him saving every single person in the First Brigade.

And he was a probationary officer who hadn't even been on the job for a full month.

Who'd ever seen a rookie like that!

The entire criminal investigation system of Songhai City had never seen such a precedent either.

Both arrests were completed barehanded while the other side was armed with guns.

Let alone rookies—even veteran detectives wouldn't dare claim they could do it.

Besides having enough brains, you also needed the guts.

It's no exaggeration—without reckless, fearless courage, even if you were given the chance to pick up a knife, you wouldn't know how to thrust it out.

Yet Yu Dazhang had not only done it, he'd done it extraordinarily well.

At this point, no one cared anymore about Yu Dazhang having hit the wrong person before. The victim hadn't even pursued it, so their own people certainly weren't going to keep harping on it.

After several days of continuous interrogation, the case moved into its final closing phase.

What counts as meeting the conditions to close a case?

The facts and circumstances of the crime are clear, and the evidence is solid and sufficient.

In other words, the case had been fully sorted through, with no remaining doubts.

What came next was pursuing criminal responsibility according to law—no longer the criminal investigation side's job.

Yu Dazhang was also called back to the Third Brigade by Captain Zhang Dong.

Zhang Dong had also realized that if he didn't call him back, Yu Dazhang would very likely be kept on by the First Brigade.

Now whenever Wei Qian looked at Yu Dazhang, his eyes practically glowed green.

He had even privately gone to find Zhang Dong to chat.

"Old Zhang, what do you think of those two rookies under me? Pretty promising, right?"

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"Of course—when has your eye for people ever been wrong?"

"How about I transfer the two of them to your Third Brigade?"

"You'd really let them go?"

"I'll trade you those two for one rookie from your Third Brigade—two for one."

"Who do you want to trade for?"

"Yu Dazhang."

"Get lost!"

Zhang Dong was no fool—this was a criminal-investigation talent who could bring honor to the entire Third Brigade.

Sure, he was a bit fat, but that didn't stop him from getting results.

Back then it was you, Wei Qian, who misjudged him, and now you want to come pick the fruit? Dream on!

Inside a simply styled office.

Sunlight filtered through the glass and spilled across the room, filling the air with a warm, comfortable scent.

Qu Tuotuo sat behind the desk, staring blankly out the window.

Right now, outside the wide, bright floor-to-ceiling window, a spider-worker was suspended, wiping the glass.

A gentle knock sounded at the door.

"Come in," Qu Tuotuo said without turning her head.

A young woman dressed like a secretary walked in, glanced at Qu Tuotuo first, then followed her gaze to the window.

"President Qu?"

"Talk."

Qu Tuotuo still didn't turn around, holding the same posture.

"Since you've just returned to the country, the Chairman was afraid you weren't familiar with the domestic market, so he specifically asked me to put together an introductory document for you."

"Leave it there."

"President Qu, what are you looking at?"

The secretary truly couldn't understand what was worth watching about someone wiping glass.

"Do you think…" Qu Tuotuo's eyes refocused, but her posture didn't change:

"When a person does something wrong, do they feel guilty?"

The secretary didn't quite get it, but still answered:

"Depends on the person, I guess. A good person definitely would; a bad one—hard to say."

"What if they did wrong in order to save someone?" Qu Tuotuo continued.

"Well…" The secretary thought for a moment, then said:

"If it was to save someone, then they're not a bad person. If they feel guilty, just apologizing should be enough."

The secretary's words left Qu Tuotuo silent. After a long while, she sighed:

"Go on with your work."

After the secretary left, Qu Tuotuo stared out the window for a long time—until the spider-worker outside had disappeared, she was still watching.

"So, he doesn't think he did anything wrong."

Qu Tuotuo murmured to herself, suddenly feeling a tightness in her chest.

These past few days she had been waiting for an explanation. Although that day the other person had done it to save her, the method was something she couldn't accept.

"It's been a week now. Looks like he plans to just let it go."

Qu Tuotuo's eyes stayed fixed on the safety rope the spider-worker was using outside; from start to finish, her gaze never left that rope.

"I really want to strangle him to death."

(End of chapter)