The cases of the cat spirit and the human meat buns were officially over. Sun Tiger opened a grand commendation meeting and rewarded all the people involved in the investigation. Dali and I each received 20,000 yuan in bonus. Xiaotao received special awards as the task force leader and won a second-class merit medal from the Ministry of Public Security. Wang Yuanchao rose one level from a bottom-ranked police officer.

Director-General Cheng’s good opinion of my ability increased. He told Sun Tiger to inform me that if I encountered any difficulties at all, I could just give him a call! I also received his private phone number, of which no more than twenty people in the province had.

Xiaotao told me that this medal should’ve been awarded to me. Unfortunately, I did not have a position in the police force,...