When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 31

Under Old Master Yi’s leadership, a dangerous storm brewing beneath the surface was quietly dispelled. Yi Jing, at the core of the vortex, discreetly disappeared under multiple layers of protection.

The incident was forcibly quelled, and the voices of Zhao Qin and Xie Zhonghui vanished.

Like the severely injured person who suddenly appeared at the reunion banquet, all traces were instantly erased. The ripples stirred up by guns and arguments subsided, and in the blink of an eye, the Yi family estate returned to an atmosphere of warmth and peace.

In this atmosphere, Yi Jing was watched by Old Master Yi’s trusted butler as she was sent to the judicial system’s assigned vehicle.

It wasn’t just Zhao Qin and Xie Zhonghui who were restricted after the incident at the estate. Yi Jing herself had, after all, harmed a distant relative, so some semblance of punishment had to be shown.

However, being sent to the Supervisory Bureau now wasn’t something Yi Jing particularly minded.

There was an abundance of things to access within the judicial system, and coming to work at this time actually suited her wishes.

The term “dirty work” that Xu Zaixi had mentioned earlier at the Yi family estate had been on her mind, and now that she was back at her workplace, she could use the unit’s information network to look into it.

As the Chief Inspector, Yi Jing was the top-ranking official in the Supervisory Bureau’s direct system. Apart from the courts and the Supreme Prison, which were not under her jurisdiction, she had access to almost all other materials.

Anti-corruption group, Dereliction of Duty and Rights Infringement group, Supervisory Commission…

Yi Jing’s gaze swept quickly over the work documents of the subordinate groups, then she directly accessed the archived business registration information for Jing’an City through the anti-corruption group’s backend privileges.

As the core district’s Chief Inspector, the anti-corruption group, Dereliction of Duty and Rights Infringement group, and Supervisory Commission were all permanent high-level working groups under Yi Jing’s command. They routinely maintained auditing work for all in-service civil servants in Jing’an City. Usually, when there were no major cases, these core district groups wouldn’t easily be mobilized, but many materials would still be directly archived in the judicial system’s database.

Yi Jing didn’t find any information related to Xu Zaixi in the materials from the Dereliction of Duty and Rights Infringement group and the Supervisory Commission. She suspected those cases were too big, and Xu Zaixi wouldn’t be involved in dealing with such people. So she turned to access the business registration information database managed by the Finance Bureau of the political and legal system.

Some of the Finance Bureau’s documents would be directly connected to the anti-corruption group’s backend to facilitate evidence collection by the anti-corruption group in special circumstances. However, the anti-corruption group didn’t often browse these files, which instead made it convenient for Yi Jing at this moment.

Yi Jing entered the database, originally planning to slowly search for companies related to the Yi family’s distant relatives centered around Xu Zaixi. Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered Xu Zaixi’s name, quite a few search results popped up, but not in the Thirteenth District—rather in the Ninth District.

The names of several different types of development companies and large industrial groups jumped out, with Xu Zaixi’s name prominently displayed in positions of senior management and former senior management.

Xu Zaixi indeed didn’t have any controlling stakes in companies, but she was surprisingly involved with many engineering companies in the Ninth District, either as former core management or project leaders. She also had many bars and nightclubs under her name, and even had close relationships with well-known entertainment company bosses…

Something wasn’t right.

Yi Jing frowned slightly, then exited and went to check the few administrative detention records related to Xu Zaixi that she had found earlier. Sure enough, they were all related to the nightclubs under her name, either for fighting and brawling or involving contraband.

Contraband was indeed something worth noting, but if these were the only things exposed on the surface… this scale really didn’t amount to much, just small-time operations.

The “dirty work” Xu Zaixi mentioned surely couldn’t just be this. If it were such low-level affairs, even Yi Heng, who had never been involved in Yi family matters, could handle it clearly. Why would they need to find Xu Zaixi?

So…

Yi Jing leaned back in the large chair in her office and thought for a moment. Suddenly, the secretary who should have been in the adjacent office knocked and entered.

“What is it?” Yi Jing raised her eyes to look at the secretary.

“Chief Inspector, the corruption and bribery case from two months ago in the Seventh District, involving suspected cover-ups of malicious homicide and other serious crimes, has been processed. Director Qin from the anti-corruption group and Director Xu from the Supervisory Commission have completed the paperwork. Once you sign off, they can directly go to the Supreme Prison for reception.”

“Oh…” Yi Jing had some recollection of this matter. It seemed to be one of the few major cases left over from the handover with the previous Chief Inspector when she took office.

“I see. I’ll review the documents and return them to Qin Song after approval.”

“Alright,” the secretary quickly responded, then added, “There’s one more thing you need to be aware of. At 2 PM, you have a scheduled joint meeting of the judicial, political and legal, and public security systems. Please be sure to mind the time.”

“What?” Yi Jing frowned. “When was this meeting arranged?”

“The notice was issued yesterday at 10:30 AM, decided by the old mayor himself. The purpose is to advance the election matters, determine the venues for the next few rounds of candidate speeches, and formulate security measures,” the secretary efficiently highlighted the key points. “If you hadn’t returned from the estate today, the bureau would have arranged a car to pick you up as well.”

Yi Jing took a deep breath. “…”

It’s fine, it’s okay, let’s just consider this as how things are within the system.

Yi Jing had a pile of things to deal with every day. Even during relatively idle times, she would be swamped with all kinds of useful and useless documents, not to mention she had been busy figuring out the Yi family’s affairs recently.

Some things that seemed irrelevant were indeed overlooked by her.

“Alright, I got it. I’ll attend on time,” Yi Jing said.

The secretary acknowledged and quickly turned to leave, closing the door for Yi Jing.

Yi Jing looked at the character-dense document displayed on the faint blue light screen floating in mid-air, sighed resignedly, and began reading line by line.

Thanks to the merit of spending time in the judicial system’s database checking documents whenever she had nothing else to do, Yi Jing could tell at a glance which factions the people involved in this case belonged to, and could even guess roughly why these people were arrested.

The only thing that slightly surprised Yi Jing was the most inconspicuous charge among these people’s crimes—suspected cover-up of criminal organizations.

Seeing these words, Yi Jing couldn’t help but think of the so-called “dirty work.”

Even if Xu Zaixi wouldn’t personally do some fighting and killing work, this dirty work should also be inseparable from criminal nature, right?

Yi Jing immediately went to learn about the backgrounds of those scumbags who were about to be sent to the Supreme Prison.

It was impossible to trace back to Xu Zaixi through these people.

The Supervisory Commission of the Thirteenth District had been mobilized, so these involved officials must have been thoroughly investigated from top to bottom, and anyone related would not have escaped.

Not to mention that they should truly have no connection to Xu Zaixi, even if there were any, they should have been cut off by now.

But Yi Jing still wanted to understand the operating modes of these people, perhaps she could find Xu Zaixi’s trail from this.

Yi Jing followed the materials submitted by the anti-corruption group and read through the entire case file. She found that those involved in the cover-ups basically had the same approach: the actual deeds were done by their subordinates, while they were only responsible for helping to blur the facts and evidence. Most of those criminal gangs had many company names hanging over them, privately conducting some borderline or even over-the-line businesses. Once something happened, they would push out insignificant people to take the blame, evading investigation and punishment each time.

Yi Jing carefully compared the information of those gang leaders who had already been imprisoned and found that some experiences and characteristics actually overlapped a lot with Xu Zaixi’s. Apart from Xu Zaixi having some kinship with the Yi family and a stronger background, there was almost no difference.

… Was Xu Zaixi really doing this?

Yi Jing manipulated the light screen to return to the original interface, signed the document jointly submitted by the anti-corruption group and the Supervisory Commission, and then returned it to the head of the anti-corruption group.

This case from the Seventh District could be considered concluded at this point. From the Supervisory Bureau initiating the investigation, to the special team obtaining a series of evidence and submitting the results to the court for verification in the name of the Supervisory Bureau, to the judgment being issued, with various departments separately submitting reports to the superior judicial and political-legal systems, and finally the responsible person signing to summarize and send to the court for filing, then transferring the suspects to the Supreme Prison.

Once this process was completed, those investigated would be sent to serve their sentences. So in the afternoon, Yi Jing would also have to send several criminals to the Supreme Prison… It was really exhausting.

Having finally dealt with the backlog of documents at hand, Yi Jing had just taken a breather and eaten a little lunch when her secretary notified her that it was about time to set off for the afternoon’s joint meeting.

Yi Jing: “…”

She finally understood why those big shots in TV dramas always liked to sit in the back of the car and pretend to nap. She used to think it was pure pretense, but now she knew—it was because they were really tired!!

Damn it!

Yi Jing, forced into being a wage slave, took a deep breath and got up to follow the secretary to where the driver was waiting downstairs.

Yi Jing had already heard about the election matters from her aunt when she first transmigrated here, but for a long time, the focus of the judicial system’s work had not been on that side. Most of the affairs were handled by the public security system, and Yi Jing hadn’t really spent much effort on election matters.

After all, she had just transmigrated at that time and felt that these things that sounded very cumbersome had nothing to do with her. Her mind was only focused on finding Yu Miao as quickly as possible.

However, the situation is different now.

Yu Miao was by her side, and there were so many obstacles between them that, although unspoken, were well understood by both. Those things that she had never taken to heart before seemed to have truly become part of her life…

Yi Jing had no other choice but to take it step by step.

However, after coming to the meeting, Yi Jing found that she was once again the highest-ranking official attending from the judicial system.

The deputy mayor participated in hosting the meeting. Yi Jing herself from the judicial system, along with the chairman of the Supervisory Commission, several bureau chiefs from the political and legal system, six core police station chiefs from the public security system, and several support team leaders almost filled an entire conference room. The group was noisy, and everyone came to ask for her opinion on any matters involving the judicial system, even for trivial things.

In the end, even half of the election security maintenance issues that should have been the responsibility of the public security system were thrown over to her.

Gaining +1 work, the meeting gave Yi Jing an unbearable headache.

Finally, after the meeting ended and she returned to the Supervisory Bureau, on the way back, Yi Jing was notified by her secretary that a copy of the minutes of this meeting also needed to be sent to Derrick.

Yi Jing, whose edges had been smoothed out by work, now only felt a sense of despair. She asked with a grim face, “If that’s the case, why didn’t he come to the meeting himself?”

The secretary answered honestly, “If we just send the minutes, the director can only understand a bit, but he doesn’t have the decision-making power like he would in the meeting.”

Yi Jing: “…”

Yi Jing was silent for two seconds, then helplessly covered her eyes.

Fine then.

When Yi Jing returned to the Supervisory Bureau after attending the meeting, she happened to catch the car from the Supreme Prison coming to pick up people. Yi Jing’s gaze swept over the prison van there, and she suddenly asked, “Is Hubert, the warden of the Supreme Prison, here too?”

The secretary’s footsteps paused for a moment. After thinking, she said, “Today is indeed the day for the Supreme Prison’s routine work report. Warden Darren should be coming to the Supervisory Bureau.”

Yi Jing nodded and didn’t say anything more, instead returning to her office on the 13th floor of the Supervisory Bureau.

Sitting in her office and tidying up the materials at hand, Yi Jing recalled Hubert’s lazy, unrestrained, and elusive style, feeling that today she might have a chance to encounter Hubert.

The last time she met Hubert was on the Phantom City. The other party’s words were so vague and puzzling, but Yi Jing vaguely had the impression that the other party was actually very familiar with her… or perhaps the other party was actually very interested in her.

If she could meet again this time, she might be able to get some information.

Yi Jing got up and went to the afternoon tea restaurant on the 8th floor of the Supervisory Bureau office building.

The entire 8th floor was actually a place for Supervisory Bureau staff to have tea breaks and rest. The Supervisory Bureau was not strict in these aspects. The restaurant and gym were arranged separately, and even the tea break area, which was solely for entertainment and rest, was very transparent and bright, almost more spacious than the entertainment areas of some top hotels. Different areas were deliberately designed with high and low drops to increase the sense of space, and then zoned according to rank. The flow of people was also divided, so Yi Jing didn’t encounter many colleagues on her way and could peacefully occupy a table by herself.

After getting a dessert and a cup of coffee from the buffet counter, Yi Jing sat at a table in the tea break area and began to wait for the person she wanted to encounter by chance.

According to the Supervisory Bureau’s work schedule, 4 PM was indeed afternoon tea time. Yi Jing waiting for someone here now didn’t count as slacking off, but slacking off should be the best way to accidentally encounter Hubert.

It was said that among the high-level officials of the Supreme Prison, anyone who wanted to slack off would inevitably be caught by Hubert, because the warden himself was the most skilled at slacking off.

Yi Jing had once encountered Hubert by chance in the banquet hall of Phantom City, and the other party was indeed as rumored, maintaining a casual and unconcerned appearance even when attending a banquet on Phantom City.

However… it was said that Hubert wasn’t always so undisciplined. When she first joined the judicial system, she was once the most hardworking figure in the Supervisory Commission. It was only after being injured in a case that she retreated from the front line.

That injury allowed Hubert to gain merit and honor, but it also severely damaged her body, making it impossible for her to continue staying in the Supervisory Commission. After that, Hubert was transferred to the Supreme Prison, and later step by step rose to become the warden.

It seemed that starting from the transfer, Hubert’s style gradually became smooth and lazy, and in the following years, it became increasingly intense, until finally becoming the current appearance that exudes a sense of ‘I don’t want to get promoted at all’ in daily actions.

However, Hubert should only appear to be casual and undisciplined.

When learning about the government affairs of the judicial system in Jing’an City, Yi Jing had heard that the Supreme Prison under Hubert’s control was completely impenetrable, with strong internal discipline. Even Chen Feng, who always liked to meddle in affairs, couldn’t manage to interfere with the Supreme Prison.

So who was she guarding against…?

Yi Jing rarely had a bit of rest time. While sipping her dessert and pondering these things, she was also messaging Yu Miao.

Actually, they didn’t have much to talk about. Both seemed to be keeping their distance when speaking, but just chatting about boring daily life was still very enjoyable.

They told each other what they were doing, and Yu Miao casually sent her a photo.

Yi Jing couldn’t help but smile as she looked at the small green plant on the balcony of the room that Yu Miao had sent her. Just as she was about to reply something, a strange yet familiar rose scent suddenly wafted by.

Yi Jing frowned slightly and withdrew her hand from the light screen.

“Oh, isn’t this Chief Inspector Yi? Contacting your lover?” Hubert elegantly sat down in the chair opposite Yi Jing, placing the dessert tray she was holding on the table next to Yi Jing. She crossed her long legs, threw her uniform jacket over the back of the chair, and leisurely occupied half the table.

“…” Yi Jing glanced at her indifferently, put away the light screen interface, picked up her coffee cup, took a sip and said, “I don’t have a lover, this is my beloved.”

Hearing this, Hubert looked at Yi Jing with some surprise. She seemed genuinely shocked, examining Yi Jing for two seconds before withdrawing her gaze. Then she put on that indifferent appearance again and said:

“Ah, whatever, a beloved is good too. But it’s rare to see people from the Supervisory Bureau looking so leisurely. Didn’t my subordinates just take away a few criminals from here? You seem very at ease, Chief Inspector.”

Yi Jing couldn’t be bothered to respond to her sarcasm and said plainly, “My subordinates are just efficient, I’m quite fortunate indeed.”

Hubert Darren was silent for a moment. “…”

“What?” Yi Jing asked, pretending not to know.

“…Nothing,” Hubert sighed a bit helplessly, took a small sip of coffee and then said, “Looks like you’ve really adapted well to the Supervisory Bureau.”

“Hmm,” Yi Jing responded, saying lightly, “Probably because there aren’t so many ‘Chen Fengs’ bothering me.”

“Is that so?” Hubert poked at the dessert in front of her and chuckled softly, as if she had heard something very interesting. She seemed to finally decide not to beat around the bush anymore and asked directly, “You can say that, it seems you’re very confident in your work… The case in the Seventh District has been concluded, but only some small fries were caught. Do you really think the facts of this case are just what has been discovered so far?”

Yi Jing’s hand paused, and she looked up at Hubert. “What do you mean?”

The case had already been concluded, and Yi Jing certainly couldn’t say her subordinates were incompetent—although Yi Jing hadn’t even taken office as Chief Inspector when this case began.

“Look.” Hubert slightly raised her chin, nodding towards the holographic news anchor image behind Yi Jing.

Probably continuing the tradition of broadcasting news to college students in the real world, several such holographic news images were scattered throughout the tea break area of the Supervisory Bureau. However, they were a bit more user-friendly than television—they would only start broadcasting news after detecting facial attention for more than three seconds.

Perhaps because connecting to real-time live broadcasts required higher network demands, the host image stuttered for a second before beginning to broadcast clearly in a gentle voice: ‘As of 17:00 yesterday afternoon, the global economic level balancing work in various territories has been successfully completed. The annual global economic development report will be officially released seven days later…’

“?” Yi Jing turned back to look at Hubert.

What was she doing, making her listen to reports again?

“Don’t rush,” Hubert said very calmly. “Wait a bit longer.”

Yi Jing frowned and listened to ten minutes of economic news with Hubert, finally hearing something related to the case from the host’s broadcast content:

‘According to reports, the case involving business rising star Lawrence Feng and his Supernova Group, which received seizure orders from the Western European territory months ago on suspicion of participating in the production and sale of addictive contraband, has now been confirmed. Three office buildings and twelve large factories of the Supernova Group worldwide have been seized. Currently, the Western European territory, South African territory, and South Asian territory have issued joint arrest warrants for Lawrence Feng and twelve other senior executives of the Supernova Group. The Alliance Court reminds you: When traveling across territories, please be mindful of personal safety and property security…’

Addictive contraband?

Yi Jing’s brow suddenly furrowed tightly. Why was it contraband again? Recently, why did every case involve addictive contraband?

That stuff, nicely called contraband, but bluntly speaking, wasn’t it just drugs…

“See, you’ve seen it too,” Hubert nodded towards the host image, then shrugged and spread her hands, saying as if it had nothing to do with her, “There’s nothing you and I can do about this kind of thing. Let’s hope the Western European territory catches their people quickly. Otherwise, if they run over here, you and I will have to help with joint case handling.”

Is that so…

If they ran to Jing’an City, would the judicial system here have to help?

But would this Lawrence really run to the East Pacific territory?

Isn’t he a European? His foundation isn’t in the East, and even if he came here, he wouldn’t have anyone to receive him. If he really did, the Alliance Court would have already found out, and by then the East Pacific territory would have followed suit in issuing a joint wanted notice.

But there was no wanted notice… So…

Yi Jing didn’t know why, but she suddenly thought of the Yi family.

Could it be that the Yi family is the one assisting Lawrence?

In the original work, wasn’t it repeatedly mentioned that the Yi family’s business and influence were shrouded in mystery? Xu Zaixi also claimed to be involved in “dirty work”… When pieced together, it does seem like quite a coincidence.

If this world weren’t a novel, Yi Jing would never make such a far-fetched connection.

But this world is a novel, and it’s only natural for all events to revolve around the protagonist. And the protagonist of this novel… isn’t it Yu Miao, who is currently by her side, right here in the Yi family estate?

“Mmm, the chefs in the estate have really outdone themselves with these desserts. It’s a shame I don’t have time to indulge today—just a little taste to satisfy the craving,” Hubert remarked beside her, taking another sip of coffee.

Yi Jing glanced at her plate—both desserts and the coffee had indeed been polished off.

Yi Jing: “…”

Hadn’t they been talking this whole time? When did she manage to eat everything?

“Since you’re not done yet, take your time,” Hubert said with a smile, stretching before standing and picking up her coat. “Ah, the Supreme Bureau doesn’t have chefs as skilled as the estate’s. I’ve been dreaming of this dessert for half a month.”

Yi Jing: “Then just come by for reports more often.”

Hubert: “…”

Hubert: “On second thought, no. If it’s just for work, I’d rather not visit the estate too much.”

With that, Hubert waved and left. Once she was gone, Yi Jing was the only one left at the tea break table.

Her gaze lowered, settling on the half-finished cup of coffee beside her.

The dark liquid reflected a faint, blurred silhouette in the white porcelain. Yi Jing couldn’t help but frown slightly as an uncontrollable thought surfaced:

The information about contraband keeps piling up, and things beyond the original story’s risqué themes are slowly creeping in… Is everything she’s encountered so far really as simple as it seems on the surface?

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