The lounge was tidied up by Zhang Xixi, which surprised Jia Simiao. He was really tired and fell asleep as soon as he lay down.

Zhang Xixi asked: "Ziyu, tell me, how did Jia sell these flowers?"

But Tang Ziyu's mind wasn't on this topic and she replied with a question: "Xixi, are you saying...these flowers were sold?"

"Of course! They weren't given to a lover or anything."

Then Zhang Xixi explained how they acquired the flower shop from He Runxi and had to get rid of the remaining stock even at discounted prices. She never expected that Jia would be able to sell two baskets of flowers so quickly.

"Ziyu, what's wrong? You seem off," Zhang Xixi noticed Tang Ziyu's strange behavior.

"It's nothing. So does that mean your store will open in two days?" Tang Ziyu blushed with embarrassment for misunderstanding Jia Simiao's intentions earlier.

"Yes! You and Jun Ao must come over!" Zhang Xixi smiled.

"I'll definitely come but I'm not sure about Jun Ao."

"Don't worry about her schedule; she'll come anyway."

"In that case, I'll call her now."

Shen Junao is a criminal investigator at the North District Public Security Bureau while the area around Xuexue Road falls under West District Public Security Bureau jurisdiction. The main roads such as Yanjiang Road, North Square Road, South Square Road and Train Station all fall under North District Public Security Bureau jurisdiction. This is why Shen Junao rarely patrols around Jia Simiao and Zhang Xixi’s area since it’s outside her jurisdictional boundaries. Her focus is on major cases rather than petty thefts like those occurring frequently near the train station or square areas where people lose their belongings. Occasionally, there are also gang fights but before she can even make an arrest, the perpetrators have already been bailed out.

When she was about to catch the mastermind, the sub-bureau chief Yang Jingui stopped her. There are too many injustices in this world. What can one person do? Sometimes it's better to turn a blind eye, as it is an unwritten rule of society.

Shen Junao didn't understand. They committed a crime and she was a police officer. How could catching them be wrong? If they were all ignored, then she felt sorry for her military uniform.

Looking at her beloved subordinate, Yang Jingui sighed: "Xiao Shen, I understand your feelings. But have you ever thought about it? Fighting against the underworld will not achieve any results. If you provoke them instead, they will become even more dangerous and harm the country and people."

"I don't care about that," Shen Junao said firmly. "I only know that when I see bad people, I must bring them to justice."

Black is black and white is white; they cannot be mixed together.

This girl has an unyielding personality like a pine tree that won't bend or break easily in society where such character traits often lead to trouble later on. In fact, Yang Jingui admired Shen Junao very much because he used to be just like her - daring and willing to fight until he realized that climbing up higher meant losing his courage along with his rough edges being smoothed out by society over time. Watching Shen Junao's back disappear into the distance made him feel complex emotions as if seeing himself from before but hoping she wouldn't end up like him in this difficult-to-be-true-to-yourself society.

After leaving the sub-bureau office according to routine procedures with two other detectives Da Zhang and Lao Li driving their patrol car around town when they heard some screams near the train station area where two young men were dragging a girl towards a bar while speaking vulgarly.

"Stop!" shouted Da Zhang from afar.

But Shen Junao didn't hesitate and took advantage of the moment when the two young men were stunned, she kicked one of them over and then pounced on the other. The latter pulled out a spring knife without saying a word and stabbed at her. Shen Junao dodged to the side, grabbed his wrist, twisted it hard, and flipped him over.

Then, her knee hit his back directly and knocked him down to the ground. Click! With handcuffs, these two young men were handcuffed and loudly said: "Dazhang, Lao Li, it's up to you." Dazhang and Lao Li secretly smiled bitterly. This girl is always so fierce and violent.

The little girl's hair was messy, her clothes were torn in several places, there were bruises on her face, indicating that she had suffered from violence. She looked at Shen Junao and Dazhang, Lao Li and others with a dodging look in her eyes, full of fear and panic.

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Shen Junao said: "Little sister, don't be afraid. We are police officers."

We are police officers!

These five words seemed to make the little girl recover from her shock. When she saw the police uniforms on Shen Junao and others' bodies clearly , instead of calming down ,she became more scared .She kept stepping back with trembling feet ,fearfully saying : "Don't send me there again ,don't send me there again."

"Send you where?"

Shen Junao asked in surprise: "Little sister,don’t be afraid,I am a policewoman too.I won’t let you get hurt anymore.”

As another woman,the little girl stared at Shen Junao for a while before finally throwing herself into her arms,crying out:"Sister,save me please.I don't want to go back there anymore."

"What place?"

"Shuiyunjian Bar."

They are now not far from Shuiyunjian Bar,on the street,and can still hear music coming from inside.The police had received intelligence about this bar before,saying that someone was luring those girls who have no family or education background into doing illegal things through this bar.Unfortunately they didn’t find anything after several raids.This time they finally found a witness.

Perhaps because she saw that Shen Junao was a woman and had a sense of justice, she told them what happened. She came from a single-parent family and didn't even finish junior high school before mixing in society. Through friends' introduction, she worked as a waitress at Shuiyunjian Bar. That night, she was raped by several men.

From then on, she fell into a demonic abyss where someone controlled her every move and even took nude photos of her. If she dared to report it or do anything, they would release those photos online. At the same time, they found out her family's address and threatened her with their lives, so the young girl had no choice but to comply.

Every day she suffered this torment until she couldn't take it anymore. She climbed out of the window under the pretext of going to the bathroom but was chased down as soon as she left the bar.

Shen Junao and his companions happened to witness this scene.

Shen Junao was quite angry and asked: "How many other victims are there inside? Do you know where they're hiding?"

"There are more than ten people hiding in a room on the fourth floor at the very back. There is a partition in that room with a large wardrobe door that opens up to reveal a secret compartment where we hide. I managed to escape once before and called for help, but...but one police officer sent me back here."

"What? Do you remember what that person looked like?"

"I don't know; I was too scared at that time."

"It's okay; sit in the police car first, and we'll send you home later."

They didn't let go of those two young men either; they knocked them unconscious and threw them into the police car.

Shen Junao quickly took off his uniform shirt, put on a long coat, and said angrily: "These are all beasts! We must bring these scumbags to justice!"

Da Zhang said worriedly: "Xiao Shen, can we handle this with just us three? Shouldn't we call our chief for backup?"

"No," Shen Junao shook his head. "Do you remember what that little girl said earlier? All calls made from this area will be answered by our local police station. This means that someone from our station is in cahoots with the bar owner. We don't know who that person is yet, so if we ask for backup from our chief, it might alert them."

Lao Li said solemnly: "It's too risky for just us three to take action. I heard that the mastermind behind this bar is the Qin family of Nanjiang City. Even our Yang Bureau can't touch them."

The Qin family was deeply rooted in Nanjiang City; Qin Ye, the patriarch of the family, was a deputy director of public security at the provincial level, and his son Qin Shouguo was a staff officer in charge of military operations in Nanjiang City and had considerable power. The third generation of the Qin family included Qin Pujun, who along with Shang Jiachou from Shang's Family and Huo Huanjue from Huo's Family were all rising stars among South Jiang's new generation elite - they were definitely not people to be trifled with.

Da Zhang exclaimed: "I didn't even know! The mastermind behind Water Cloud Bar is actually the Qin family? This complicates things.