When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 58.2

“Now is not the time to talk about these things.” Yu Miao refused Yi Jing ‘s question, “You and I don’t have enough ability, don’t have too dangerous ideas. When we have enough leverage to investigate that port, I definitely won’t miss the opportunity.

Your attention now should be on the general election. The election is about to begin, and there will definitely be no shortage of ‘exciting’ events then. The answers you want may also be found during the election process.”

“Oh, alright!” Yi Jing responded glumly, saying with a lack of enthusiasm, “I got it, I won’t investigate the port issue for now, but I’m still a bit unhappy.”

“Why?” Yu Miao asked.

“I… sister, I’m starting to feel like you don’t like me. Whenever I have something, I always think of you and hope we can figure it out together. But you’re not like that – you always leave me out.

I don’t like this, sister. I hope in the future when you encounter something, you can come to me directly, no matter what it is, instead of assuming I won’t believe you and trying to accomplish your goals on your own, only telling me after things are irreversible.”

Yi Jing quietly complained in a small voice: “I trust you the most and like being with you the most. When you’re not clinging to me, I’m always thinking of you. So can you just come to me directly? I’ll trust you.”

Yu Miao was taken aback.

Even though she was long accustomed to Yi Jing’s blatant favoritism, she was still caught off guard by Yi Jing’s unabashed confession.

Of course she liked Yi Jing too, but she seemed to never be as simple and direct as Yi Jing, who had no reservations and practically wanted to write “I like you” on her face.

Perhaps she should learn to be more honest too with Yi Jing.

“Hmm…” Yu Miao thought for a moment, then replied to Yi Jing, “I’ll consider it. There won’t be any more concealment next time.”

“Alright then.” Yi Jing finally cheered up, the corners of her mouth turning upwards.

Hehe.

“But the election is coming up soon, with just over a week left. Those who need to prepare have probably already started. I’ll definitely have to get involved too, and there’s no time to follow up on the clues we’ve already obtained.” Yi Jing hesitated, looking back at the monitoring screens as she spoke.

There was no way to continue investigating the clues about Xu Zaixi found in District 9, the movements of the Zhao family, or even the tip of the iceberg that Yi Mingyu had revealed this time.

Who knows what changes might occur with these discovered matters by the time the election is over.

“It’s alright,” Yu Miao responded, “During the election period, the candidates will be competing against each other. They certainly won’t want things to go smoothly for their opponents. At that time, more noteworthy things will emerge, which may even become breakthroughs for our actions. You and I will gain a lot from this election.”

Yi Jing’s gaze shifted as she tilted her head to ponder Yu Miao’s words.

Yu Miao always seemed very confident about certain things that had yet to happen. Perhaps it was because Yu Miao was also not merely the original character from the story.

But regardless of the reason, she should trust Yu Miao.

A pair of lovers should stand on the same side and face things together.

“I understand.” Yi Jing responded cheerfully.

Hearing her lively voice, Yu Miao couldn’t help but smile too, saying softly: “Don’t worry, more people worth paying attention to will appear.”

“Mm.” Yi Jing responded, not thinking too much about it. On the other end of the communication, however, Yu Miao fell into deep thought after ending the call.

Perhaps, she should contact the organization’s personnel now, urging Q to continue reaching out to comrades higher up, and find a way to track Lawrence’s movements.

It would be better to resolve that troublesome hidden danger sooner rather than later.

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With three days left until the election, official preparations were launched. All public venues involved in the formal election were cleared, nearby roads began restricting traffic, and the focus of the security and judicial systems shifted entirely to maintaining order during the election period.

Yi Jing was no exception. She personally inspected several venues involved in public speaking events multiple times, repeatedly confirming that the equipment and venues were completely safe and could be used normally, doing her best to eliminate all potential security risks.

Facing an election for the first time, Yi Jing truly found it quite novel.

Because the background setting of this novel world was basically disconnected from the real world, the political system implemented was completely different from the real world, and even the process of transferring officials was different from the real world.

At least for Jing’an City, the mayoral election had three stages: the first lecture debate marking the start of the election where candidates expounded their governing philosophies, a 12-day preliminary vote by citizen representatives after the first debate, and a final vote.

The final vote was accompanied by the candidates’ second lecture, where they could either reiterate their philosophies or respond to controversies about themselves that arose during the preliminary voting period.

In short, each person had 30 minutes of speaking time, during which citizen representatives who had already completed preliminary voting could continuously change their vote options until the last candidate finished speaking. Then the voting channels would immediately lock the votes, and after verifying the vote count was correct, the election results would be announced the next day.

In this world, most officials, in addition to passing basic exams and assessments in their daily work, had to go through a voter election if they wanted to be promoted beyond their current level, appearing before the public in advance – regardless of which level of election it was.

Except for a small number of officials with special experiences who were directly appointed by the Alliance Parliament, most politicians with promotion potential in this world had to repeat the cycle of “accepting assessments, achieving political results, waiting for transfer orders, continuing to work for a few years after transferring to a higher position, then striving to participate in the public election closest to their current position level.”

In other words, for a politician to become a member of an agency or department and gradually accumulate political achievements for promotion was just the early stage. If they wanted to cross their current scope of authority to rise to another level or enter the decision-making circle, they had to go through a public election.

For candidates, whether the campaign was successful or not, they could gain opportunities for further advancement. At most, the system they were transferred to would be different.

But it was very difficult to rise to a higher level without experiencing an election. This was the consensus among politicians in this world.

If following the normal planned route, Yi Jing would most likely participate in the mayoral election two terms from now. If successful, she would stay on as mayor. If unsuccessful, she would find a way to use the election opportunity for promotion and transfer to a territorial-level position.

Whether successful or not, as long as she participated in a public election, it meant she had a ticket to advance further. With her family background, it would be very easy for her to move up.

Although there were a few exceptions who could be promoted without going through an election, those were basically extreme cases. Most people followed this steady, step-by-step promotion path.

However, Yi Jing felt she probably wouldn’t have the chance to take this route.

She didn’t even know how long she could remain as security officer.

Once she broke with the Yi family and completely tore off the Yi family’s disguise, exposing the illegal and criminal activities sheltered and hidden under the Yi family, it wouldn’t just be the Yi family that would be held accountable. At that time, it would likely be difficult for her to hold office in Jing’an City again.

But it didn’t matter. She was prepared.

Since transmigrating, whether actively or passively, Yi Jing had always received many benefits as a member of the Yi family. She couldn’t just enjoy the conveniences without being willing to bear responsibility, could she?

She didn’t mind paying the price.

If at the initial time of transmigrating she hadn’t yet decided what to do and more or less wanted to be a slacker, then from the moment she decided to protect Yu Miao and be Yu Miao’s companion, she was already prepared.

She accepted all the consequences of her actions. As long as she could happily be with Yu Miao in the end, it was fine. Even if there were some bumps along the way, it didn’t matter. After all, storms would always pass as long as they were still together.

With this mindset, Yi Jing led the temporary working group formed by the Supervisory Commission of the Supervisory Yuan into the main venue where the three candidates would soon give their speeches –

This was an art plaza that could be called a landmark even in the center of Jing’an City’s thirteen districts. It was built ten years ago as a fairly large building complex, housing many artworks renowned throughout the Alliance.

More importantly, the level of technology application here was high. In addition to its symbolic significance, the various hardware was also sufficient to support the security guarantees for candidates during the election period and serve as a signal center to live broadcast to all projection devices across the city in real time.

The sound of brakes screeched in front of the art plaza as the exclusive vehicle of the Supervisory Yuan stopped. The silver emblem and form-fitting uniform were as eye-catching as ever, attracting the gazes of most of the personnel present as soon as they appeared.

It wasn’t for nothing that the members of the Supervisory Commission were called “silver collars”. The uniforms and emblems of the judicial system were designed to be truly beautiful and eye-catching, looking very imposing. Especially since Yi Jing, the head of the Supervisory Commission, rarely personally led a team to inspect, some media who had come early to prepare for reporting immediately surrounded them.

Given the current real-world environment, no politician could avoid appearing in public.

Fortunately, the judicial system never lacked spokespersons. Yi Jing flashed briefly in front of the cameras before quickly leaving a subordinate who routinely dealt with the media. She herself led the other inspectors towards the towering building at the center of the art plaza.

There were still a few media reporters who persisted in trying to interview her personally, occasionally saying things like:

“Security Officer, which candidate do you favor most in the upcoming election in two days?”

“According to the basic procedures, you will be responsible for overseeing the fairness and impartiality of the entire election process. Do you have anything to say to the public?”

“Among the three candidates, the most experienced one who has served in Jing’an City the longest is Mr. Delinke, who like you comes from the judicial system. Do you have any predictions about his governing direction?”

The topics were varied, but Yi Jing ignored them all, simply walking straight through the security guards’ escort and entering the central building.

Most of the exhibition halls inside the building had been temporarily closed off, leaving only the rest rooms, data monitoring backend, and security monitoring room that would be used on election day.

The former was for use by the mayoral candidates and their campaign teams, while the latter two were the workplaces for her and Qi Xiao.

The number of people from the judicial and security systems wasn’t too many or too few, but there really weren’t many who could take on work at the level of overseeing a major election turnover. With only two or three people, especially since this kind of task carried a lot of weight in the year-end political assessment, Yi Jing, who came from the Yi family, had high-ranking officials backing her, and was herself the second-in-command of the judicial system, along with Qi Xiao, who had managed various police forces of the city police department for many years and was a high-level official in the security system as well as the top model worker of the city police department, were once again assigned as the main persons in charge.

The two of them, as representatives of the judicial and security systems respectively, were responsible for overseeing the legality and compliance of various procedures during the election period and ensuring the safety of candidates and voters during the election.

Qi Xiao had to eliminate all security risks and ensure the safety of everyone at the election site, while Yi Jing’s work was still to monitor the actions of her fellow officials, supervise all data changes in votes and candidate popularity produced during the entire election period, and ensure the entire election was fair, just, reasonable, and compliant.

In particular, she had to ensure that the candidates’ campaign teams did not engage in any illegal operations or malicious attacks while making their own efforts.

In short, it was very busy.

After checking some basic security issues and details prone to oversight, Yi Jing led her team to the data monitoring backend that occupied the entire underground first floor of the art building.

With the continuous upgrading of technology, the coverage of technological assistance was becoming wider and wider, directly leading to rising costs for functional maintenance and visual monitoring –

Although these costs were nothing compared to the convenience brought, it had become common for central AI application equipment to occupy an entire underground floor or two to three floors of space.

Like the data monitoring backend Yi Jing was now inspecting, which was only responsible for the area of the art plaza, its scale was already quite large.

If it were at the Alliance level, even more advanced technology would likely need to be employed.

“How is it? Are all the test data within normal ranges? Can you guarantee the normal operation of the equipment on election day?” Yi Jing asked, walking up to the technician who was working hard at the control panel under the huge screen.

The technician who was buried in processing data was startled for a moment, turned his head to see it was Yi Jing, and immediately replied: “No problems have been found. All aspects of testing have been passed. We have already coordinated with the municipal department for three drills, and can absolutely guarantee normal use. The safety facilities to be used during the speeches were also activated for the final test this morning. We specially sent safety personnel to try them out and found no issues.”

“Good.” Yi Jing nodded.

She was about to ask further questions when she was surrounded by a group of people temporarily assigned to the art plaza to handle the details of this election. A flood of large and small matters were reported to Yi Jing all at once.

Yi Jing: “…”

Help.

Very busy, but no chance to escape. Yi Jing dealt with all the matters one by one. Finally, an inspector from the Supervisory Yuan, her direct subordinate, came over with a stack of highly encrypted confidential documents:

“Security Officer, these are the speech outlines submitted by the three candidates who will participate in the election. The campaign teams have requested that you review them as soon as possible, complete the backup early, and confirm that the candidates’ actions comply with regulations.”

Here it was, probably the biggest benefit of being in charge of election work.

In order to maintain information transparency and ensure that the candidates’ campaign teams were not stabbing each other in the back privately, most aspects of the campaign had to be reported in advance. As the supervisor, Yi Jing had the opportunity to get a preview of all the candidates’ actions.

There might be some interesting discoveries.

“Alright.” Yi Jing nodded and walked towards the confidential office nearby with her subordinate.

This was originally within the scope of Yi Jing’s duties. After entering the office, Yi Jing activated the security mechanism inside, confirmed the safety of the office, then passed the Security Officer authority verification and opened the files.

The confidential documents were unlocked, and three speech outlines appeared simultaneously on the light screen.

Yi Jing had originally intended to just take a quick look, quickly review the speech outlines and then confirm the process for the three waiting campaign teams. But unexpectedly, her gaze fixed on two of the documents, she really hadn’t expected to see such excitement so early in the election.

“It seems there will soon be something worth looking forward too. ” Yi Jing chuckled lightly, reviewing and retaining backups of the three documents, and approving the process.

She was busy until late that night, not finishing until the campaign venue had to be cleared and sealed off.

Yi Jing watched with her own eyes as the security system personnel hung seals around the art plaza before leaving the scene.

The next time this venue would be opened would be ten hours before the official start of the campaign. By then, all election security personnel would be in place to fully ensure the smooth progress of the election.

Before that, Yi Jing could still have a small holiday, like a final moment of peace.

Returning to the Yi family manor, Yu Miao was still in her guest house. When Yi Jing entered, Yu Miao was sitting in the living room watching TV.

Yi Jing and Yu Miao hadn’t watched TV in a long time. They generally didn’t have much need for it. Whether for entertainment or communication, basically everything was solved through terminals. This kind of large-screen TV couldn’t serve much practical purpose unless there were retro games they liked. Otherwise, basically no one would turn on the TV now.

Yi Jing had always felt that having a TV here in Yu Miao’s place was just to balance the decorating style.

But today, Yu Miao had unusually turned on the TV.

Yi Jing: “?”

Feeling something wasn’t quite right.

Yu Miao turned her head, saw Yi Jing and smiled at her, gesturing lightly at the TV and saying: “You’re back? Busy day today, right?”

“Mm, it was pretty busy,” Yi Jing complained while changing her shoes. If she were to talk about this, she had a lot to say. “So tired, I almost want to quit on the spot and resign.”

“I saw you in my former colleague’s report.” Yu Miao said with a smile.

“Huh?” Yi Jing finally raised her head to look at the TV that occupied almost an entire wall, and then saw her somewhat indifferent and cold expression on the ultra-thin high-definition screen.

Because the reporter who had called out to her at the time seemed to be someone she didn’t know at all, Yi Jing remembered that she didn’t really want to deal with them. So on the screen, she was looking down with a cold expression, appearing very unapproachable.

Yi Jing: “…”

Seeing her sullen face displayed so clearly in high definition made her a bit embarrassed.

Being confident in her own face was one thing, but suddenly having her sister see her putting on airs like that was another matter entirely.

“You look quite pretty like this.” Yu Miao glanced at the big screen again and said.

“.” Yi Jing felt a bit embarrassed, but two seconds later her radar suddenly lit up. She looked at Yu Miao in surprise, quickly moved closer to grab Yu Miao’s arm and asked, “Am I not good-looking now? Do you prefer me with a cold face like that?”

“Just thought it was a bit attractive.” Yu Miao laughed, raising her hand to hook Yi Jing’s chin.

A sulky little dog was unexpectedly cute.

“So I’m not attractive now? I get it, you don’t like me being enthusiastic, right?” Yi Jing felt like she was about to start making a fuss.

“That’s not it.” Yu Miao hesitated for a moment, paused briefly and leaned close to Yi Jing, whispering softly in her ear, “You… tonight, do you want to try wearing your uniform? Darling?”

“Hmm?” Yi Jing’s gaze shifted slightly, her eyes brightening a bit as she asked quietly, “Sister, do you like that kind of thing?”

Yu Miao thought for a moment, then laughed and said: “Maybe I do a little.”

Yi Jing’s thoughts immediately went astray as she happily started searching for same-day delivery.

If it’s fast enough, maybe it could arrive tonight.

Seeing that she seemed to have forgotten about the video, Yu Miao quietly muted the TV, watched Yi Jing’s fleeting cold expression on screen two more times, then paused the news video with satisfaction. She casually asked Yi Jing: “Did anything happen at work today?”

Mentioning this, Yi Jing suddenly remembered what she had originally wanted to tell Yu Miao. A teasing smile immediately appeared in her eyes: “Actually, there was one thing.”

“What happened?” Yu Miao looked at Yi Jing.

“The speech outlines, there was a clash in the speech outlines. You know, for this election I’m the backend data monitoring officer, responsible for monitoring the behavior of those candidates to prevent them from pulling tricks behind the scenes. According to procedure, all candidates’ speech outlines have to be sent to me for backup and review before the election starts. The process just reached me tonight, and I took a look. Guess what happened?”

“What?” Yu Miao asked.

“Some candidates attacked each other,” Yi Jing smiled, speaking as if watching a show, “The election hasn’t even started yet. According to procedure, the first speech should expound on their governing philosophies after taking office. But Mahira from the political and legal system and Delinke from the judicial system have already started attacking each other before even getting on stage.

Delinke implied that as someone from the political and legal system in charge of people’s livelihoods, Mahira only knows how to make money and ignores public safety. Mahira preemptively mocked Delinke as a ‘cruel official’ mixed in among the candidates, completely lacking awareness of peaceful development.”

“Mahira?” Yu Miao thought for a moment, then suddenly looked at Yi Jing, “Is that the one from the medical department of the political and legal system? Dean Delinke implied something about her?”

Seeing Yu Miao so serious, Yi Jing was also taken aback for a moment. She put away her smile, carefully recalled and answered seriously:

“Yes, Delinke’s speech outline specifically mentioned that the city’s medical system needs reform. This part happens to be mainly Mahira’s responsibility. But the medical system is too complex, I’m not familiar with it. I thought this was just political opponents attacking each other. Is there some inside story?”

“Hmm… perhaps Mahira really does have some issues,” Yu Miao looked at Yi Jing, her eyes filled with deep emotion, “Do you remember those materials I once retrieved from the mayor’s mansion?”

Yi Jing was stunned for a moment and sat up straight.

This was the first time the two had mentioned what Yu Miao had obtained from the mayor’s mansion since their confession to each other.

Although that operation happened to be the catalyst for Yi Jing and Yu Miao to be honest with each other, Yi Jing didn’t discuss the matter in detail with Yu Miao again afterwards.

If Yu Miao didn’t bring it up, she wouldn’t ask. This was the first time Yu Miao took the initiative to mention it.

Yi Jing : “I remember, you did indeed retrieve quite a lot from the mayor’s place.”

Besides things like chips and data, there seemed to be a person too. It was indeed quite a lot.

Yi Jing : “What’s the matter?”

“That day, I copied many files from the control center of the security system in the mayor’s mansion. A significant portion of them involved borderline illegal operations by Jing’an City’s largest medical group – Heng’en Group – during their business operations. There were also records of exchanges of benefits between Heng’en’s senior executives, high-ranking officials in Jing’an City, and several large public hospitals. Mahila was among those involved.”

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