Shen Lei chuckled bitterly, “Chief, you’re just joking.”
“The truth is, she and her boss, a boss of an investment company, are in a shady relationship. She thinks my salary is too low and I can’t give her a good life…”
The Chief looked at Shen Lei with sympathy, “You’ve been wronged.”
“It’s true that our salary at the Archives Department is a bit low, but it’s stable.”
“As long as you work diligently, you’ll never have to worry about your life.”
“Besides, you’re a handsome man, and you’re so good at appraising antiques, your economic situation can easily improve.”
“Your wife is really short-sighted.”
“But, there are plenty of fish in the sea, there will always be a more suitable woman for you.”
Before, Shen Lei was more introverted and afraid of saying the wrong thing to offend his superiors, he dared not approach them.
So he hadn’t interacted much with the Chief before, and this time he had mustered up his courage.
He didn’t expect the Chief to be so approachable.
Of course, it was also because Shen Lei had actually helped the Chief, he was valuable to the Chief.
Shen Lei decided to take advantage of the Chief’s current goodwill and present the extremely important archival repair to the Chief.
He said to the Chief, “Chief, there is something very important that I need to report to you.”
“I’ll go get the materials now, it is extremely important…”
The Chief thought that Shen Lei was going to get more powerful antiques for him to appreciate, and smiled, “Then hurry up and bring them over!”
Shen Lei returned to his seat and, while others weren’t paying attention, placed the batch of important old archives in his system’s personal space.
The perfect repair attribute of this system’s personal space was too powerful!
The severely damaged old archives that would have taken a month to repair were restored in the blink of an eye.
But they weren’t restored to brand new archives, they were just manually repaired old archives.
After all, if they were restored to brand new archives, there would be no way to explain it.
Shen Lei quickly brought the archives that had been repaired by the system to the Chief’s office and gave them to the Chief.
The Chief quickly put down the Kangxi blue and white porcelain cup he couldn’t bear to put down and carefully examined the repaired archives.
The more he looked, the more shocked he was, the more he looked, the more surprised he was.
After he finished reading, he looked up, his face full of joy as he said to Shen Lei, “Xiao Shen, you’ve really done a great service!”
“Do you know how important these archives are?”
“The things recorded here can even overturn some historical conclusions, they are very important!”
“Now, come with me quickly, we’re going to go report this to the Minister.”
The Chief took Shen Lei and went to report this matter to the Minister of the Police Department.
After the Minister carefully examined the archives, he had the same expression as the Chief—shocked and surprised.
The Minister looked up, his eyes full of admiration, as he said to Shen Lei, “Xiao Shen, you’ve really done a great service!”
“This batch of archives is critical and important!”
“Many points of doubt in our police department’s history have been clarified because of these archives.”
“I declare, you will be awarded a personal second-class merit, and your department will be awarded a third-class merit…”
Shen Lei was overjoyed. Receiving a personal second-class merit was incredibly valuable.
Everyone knows that a first-class merit is extremely rare, most first-class merits are awarded to heroes who have sacrificed themselves, very few living people receive first-class merits.
Then, the Minister looked at the Chief with satisfaction, “Lin Chief, your department has really cultivated a pillar of talent!”
“This talent must be cherished, don’t let him slip away…”
Lin Chief laughed, “Please rest assured, Minister, we will definitely cherish him…”
After returning from the Minister, Lin Chief was beaming with joy.
Their confidential department usually had a record of being neither outstanding nor deficient, they rarely had the opportunity to be collectively awarded for merit.
They didn’t expect that, because of repairing this important archival material, the entire department would be able to receive a third-class merit, it was truly a cause for celebration!
Shen Lei was the greatest contributor.
The more Lin Chief looked at him, the more he liked him.
Lin Chief decided to reward Shen Lei somehow.
He originally wanted to directly promote Shen Lei to the rank of section chief, but the current section chief of Shen Lei’s department was also somewhat connected and it wasn’t easy to make a move.
Lin Chief suddenly remembered that Shen Lei had just gotten divorced?
Maybe he should just help him arrange a marriage, a marriage that could greatly advance his career.
After returning to the Chief’s office, the Chief played with the Kangxi blue and white porcelain cup in his hand, unable to put it down, and looked at Shen Lei.
He suddenly realized that Shen Lei was now a completely different person compared to before, he was radiant and looked very elegant and handsome.
The Chief suddenly thought of someone and wanted to play matchmaker.
He smiled at Shen Lei and said, “My old friend’s daughter, her husband passed away some time ago, she’s been raising her child alone, it’s not easy for her.”
“Xiao Ai is a beautiful and virtuous girl, she’s currently a departmental-level cadre.”
“If you don’t mind her age, I can help you two get together.”
Shen Lei couldn’t help but laugh at this, he didn’t expect this old Chief to want to be a matchmaker, arranging a forced marriage.
But, a Chief actually introduced a departmental-level cadre to him for a blind date?
Wasn’t that a little too sudden?
But Shen Lei remembered that when the Minister was talking to the Chief, his attitude was very respectful, he wasn’t arrogant or condescending.
It seems that this Chief, although his official position was not high, may have a lot of influence in other areas.
Perhaps his personal connections weren’t as simple as he thought.
Shen Lei suddenly thought, the Chief called the widow Xiao Ai, which felt very similar to a woman he was familiar with in his original timeline.
He couldn’t help but ask, “Chief, what’s that woman’s last name?”
The Chief smiled at Shen Lei, “Her last name is Zhong.”
“If Xiao Shen is interested, I’ll help you arrange a meeting…”
Shen Lei didn’t know what to say at that time.
So, that woman was really Zhong Xiao Ai!
It seems that in this timeline’s 2018, Hou Liang Ping couldn’t stand the verbal attacks from a certain website in his original timeline and was finally cursed to death.
In his original timeline, after watching ‘In the Name of People’, Shen Lei had concluded that
Hou Liang Ping, that guy, was so flamboyant in his actions, even if he wasn’t shot to death by Qi Tong Wei and Zhao Rui Long, he would have been killed by some other corrupt group.
Sure enough, in this timeline, Hou Liang Ping was assassinated last year, 2017, while investigating a case.
The still-beautiful Zhong Xiao Ai became a widow.
However, Zhong Xiao Ai was probably 40 years old, at least 7 years older than him!
This was simply a copycat of Qi Tong Wei and Liang Lu!
However, Zhong Xiao Ai’s father, Zhong Zheng Guo, was now as powerful as his name suggested, he had immense power over the entire court.
It could be said that, if he became Zhong Xiao Ai’s husband, he would be Zhong Zheng Guo’s son-in-law, which was destined to make him rise quickly through the ranks.
Everyone knows that Zhong Zheng Guo only had this one daughter, his future political legacy would definitely be passed on to his son-in-law.
At this moment, Shen Lei was conflicted. Should he accept or not?
If he accepted Zhong Xiao Ai, married her, and gained Zhong Zheng Guo’s support, he would definitely be able to climb the ladder to success and become a powerful figure.
However, what would happen to Li Xiao Yue?
(There are too few comments, brothers, do you have any opinions or suggestions? I hope you can post them in the comments section so I can improve. Please, comments over 100 floors will definitely lead to an explosive update.)