Involved because of you.
These five words stopped Tang Li in her tracks.
"You should be aware that in a few years, Song Baiyan will be accused of allowing family interference in politics."
They both knew this well.
Since Tang Li also dread of that ’future,’ it ans they existed in the sa dinsion in their dreams, and Tang Li’s knowledge that Song Baiyan would die young without knowing the reason suggests—how much they could foresee probably relates to how long they lived.
In his dream, Tang Li died at the age of twenty-six.
So she naturally couldn’t see the reversal of Song Baiyan’s impeachnt case years later.
Unlike Song Baiyan’s steady and capable deanor, Song Jingtian, who was elected President at thirty-seven, was a total madman.
He could hug victims’ families and cry during sudden public events to earn national goodwill; yet he could turn around and order the country’s elite assault team to infiltrate the Mihesha River Basin for an operation code-nad ’Ah Furong,’ broadcasting live a ’cleanup’ that caused severe visual discomfort.
Because perhaps there were people involved in the impeachnt case back then.
Right after the operation ended, Song Jingtian posted a V-blog in real ti on his personal social dia account.
[Let’s celebrate together. [Toasting]]
Song Jingtian, the only President of the nation who used V-blog.
Once regarded as the most approachable head of state.
However, this V-blog also gradually revealed his true nature to the voters.
Since ancient tis, inviting a god is easy but sending it away is hard.
Especially when this god is a nacing one.
Protests and curses from voters did not drive Song Jingtian away.
As Commander-in-Chief, a year before the election, Song Jingtian attempted to and the constitution, sparking conflict with the Senate and House of Representatives. In Han Jifeng’s dream, by then, he had withdrawn from politics due to health issues, and whether Song Jingtian ultimately achieved the freedom of presidency remained a mystery.
Tang Li didn’t wait for Han Jifeng to speak, she turned around, her gaze firm: "So what?"
In a previous life, the one who accused Song Baiyan was Kang Yunxi.
Now Kang Yunxi is married to ng Shu, seemingly leaving a ti bomb by her side, but from another angle, isn’t it putting soone within sight for ’monitoring’?
The ng Family relied on Song Baiyan, so naturally, they would also keep Kang Yunxi in check.
Han Jifeng looked up, not avoiding Tang Li’s gaze, "What if family interference in politics is just a fuse?"
Tang Li clenched the photo in her hand tightly.
In her past life, she was just an ordinary citizen.
What she saw on newspapers and television wasn’t necessarily the whole truth.
As for Han Jifeng, after becoming Minister of Justice, he had the authority to access various archives.
Therefore, what he knew might be the real ’truth.’
"Just two months before the impeachnt case, Song Baiyan delivered a television address announcing the arrest of the top drug lord Isa, operating along the Three Kingdoms border area."
Tang Li also knew about this matter.
Because this drug lord had caused a massacre at the borders of the country.
It was a nationwide shock at the ti.
Isa’s capture took less than a month, proving Song Baiyan’s decisiveness.
Han Jifeng leaned against the chairback, his right hand resting on the edge of the teacup, "A few months later, Isa underwent a non-public trial, and his defense attorney pointed out that Isa had once offered Song Baiyan three billion US dollars for protection and had sent heavy bribes to other departntal officials to ensure his business was undisturbed."
"Impossible," Tang Li interrupted him.
If Song Baiyan were truly colluding with Isa, how could he arrest him?
And with such thunderous asures.
"What you are saying is rely the drug lord’s baseless accusations," Tang Li was not gullible: "If the public security, inspection, and law departnts had any brains, they wouldn’t believe such nonsense."
Han Jifeng said, "So, the police brought in a witness."
Before Tang Li could speak again, Han Jifeng continued, "He was one of Isa’s subordinates, who used to have business dealings with Tang Shen. He said Tang Shen swallowed ten billion worth of his goods, but after Tang Shen died, that batch of goods disappeared, never circulating in the market. He always suspected that Tang Shen had a patron above him."
This patron refers to the Song Family.
But how could the Song Family be involved in drugs?
Tang Li knew this was slander, just like the impeachnt case.
"Later investigations confird that the Song Family indeed never had any contact with Tang Shen."
Han Jifeng continued, "However, years ago, Song Baiyan did have so association with Tang Shen’s daughter."
"Testimonies from Song Baiyan’s forr comrades also corroborated this claim. During a mission, Song Baiyan’s partner was killed, and he went missing for days. The place he disappeared was in the Mihesha River Basin."
No one knew better than Tang Li what Song Baiyan was doing during those days.
But in the previous life, no investigator ever sought her out.
Though she was confined at ho by Han Jifeng at the ti, if the police had truly co knocking, she wouldn’t have been unaware.
The police had traced back to Tang Yin, anyone visiting Diannan would know Tang Yin had a daughter, it was reasonable to say she would have been found eventually.
Yet, Lai Wenyan never ntioned it to her either.
Han Jifeng looked back at Tang Li again, "If what I dread is true, your household registration records must have been altered by soone."
Tang Li was stuck in a daze.
This was why the investigation never implicated her.
And because of this, the Lai Family and the Han Family were not implicated in any way.
As to who helped her change her household record.
Tang Li already had the answer in her heart.
In the previous life, it was also Song Baiyan who protected her.
And she knew nothing about it.
Now thinking back, so things started to connect for her.
After Han Jifeng and Lai Shengxia got involved, Lai Wenyan brought a divorce agreent for her to sign and was preparing to send her abroad. That timing coincidentally followed Isa’s capture.
Back in her apartnt, closing the door behind, Tang Li could still hear Han Jifeng’s last words lingering in her ears.
"When you were just an ordinary college student, you could blend in with the crowd; now that you’ve beco a public figure, if Isa is captured by the country as in the dream, once your background is unearthed, it could very well beco a weapon for others to attack Song Baiyan, or even worse—"
"To Song Baiyan, you are indeed that deadly talisman."
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Han Jifeng’s inner thoughts: Wonder if Song Jingtian ever achieved the freedom of presidency.
Song Jingtian: Yes, he did, ruled for thirty years, and outlasted the masses who scolded ! o(*￣︶￣*)o
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