Sorry, Who's Firing Whom?
After three grueling years of studying, I finally made it into the city agency. Then at a family banquet, I found out that my cousin, Gina Forrest—the one I'd seen at a hometown reunion—had also landed a job in the exact same unit.
During the family dinner, right in front of our uncle, who happens to be a senior official, my cousin shoved a doctored confidential document into my hands. She suddenly shrieked, collapsed to the floor, and scattered the papers everywhere.
"Clara! That's classified agency material! How could you sneak it out to show an outsider? Just for some lousy commission?"
Our uncle slammed the table in rage, declaring he would uphold justice over family ties—have me fired on the spot and report me up the chain.
Then, right in front of me, a line of on-screen text floated by.
[Gina has really lost her mind. Doesn't she know the main character is the undercover inspection team leader sent specifically to investigate her?]
[And look at the uncle still putting on his act. The team's car will be pulling up outside any minute.]
Reading the on-screen text, I took a slow sip of tea and said to Gina, who was falling all over herself to prove her loyalty, "This document is classified, all right. But you changed the wrong part."
Then I turned to my uncle and said, "And you just said you would uphold justice over family ties? Perfect. You can come back with me to the team and explain all those hiring violations over the past few years."
Gina was stunned. The government system she had been killing herself to get into—I was the one in charge of evaluating her.