City of the City 城中之城 Episode 16

During dinner in the evening, Tao Wuji talked a lot with Hu Yue, including how he met Tian Xiaohui. Tian Xiaohui is an authentic Shanghai girl, but she chooses to accompany Tao Wuji, a poor boy from out of town, to work together. Hu Yue is full of envy, touch and admiration for the love between them. In order to facilitate farmers to apply for agricultural loans, Tao Wuji personally approached Director Jia of the branch's technical department, hoping that he could help optimize the agricultural loan APP.

Director Jia said that the department is currently short of manpower, and it will take at least a month from optimization to testing to trial phase. But for Tao Wuji, one month was too long. Because the rainy season was coming, he hoped to shorten the time to ten days. Zhao Hui took the initiative to speak for Tao Wuji, and it was with his care that Director Jia promised to complete the optimization and upgrade of the APP within ten days.

Miao Che compiled the financial statements and audit reports and handed them to Gu Shen. There were many problems in them, which made Gu Shen very dissatisfied. Li Sen was gloating at the side and even wanted to add insult to injury. Miao Che refuted that he was currently conducting a written investigation and could only draw a conclusion after talking to Zhao Hui. In the end, Gu Shen decided to suspend all Zhao Hui's work and notified the administrative department to issue an internal announcement.

However, the Discipline Inspection Commission quickly received materials reporting that Zhao Hui had accepted bribes, including photos of him dating Zhou Lin and him wearing a Rolex diving watch worth more than 400,000 yuan. In addition, there are anonymous letters accusing Zhao Hui of using overseas charity platforms to accept bribes multiple times to treat his daughter's illness. Zhao Hui was asked to cooperate unconditionally with the investigation. Su Jianren was anxious and hurriedly contacted Li Sen to seek countermeasures. Li Sen suggested that he put all the responsibility on Zhao Hui and ensure that he was innocent so that he would not have to worry about being implicated. He also promised that once Zhao Hui steps down, he would be appointed as branch president within six months.

The disciplinary inspection team showed Zhao Hui the photos, asked about the origin of the watch, and asked him to hand it over. Zhao Hui believed that normal interactions between friends were beyond reproach, but the disciplinary inspection team discovered through surveillance that not long after Zhao Hui left, Xie Zhiyuan and Su Jianren met Zhou Lin in this restaurant. An insider incident occurred in Junlong Group, and the quotation for the Xinglu project was leaked to competitors. The quotation list was only stored in Wu Xiaofei's computer. Only Secretary Luo and Tian Xiaohui had contact. Wu Xiaofei exposed Secretary Luo to her face that she had betrayed herself for money, and forced her to sign a debt repayment note, otherwise she would be dealt with by special means.

After this incident, Tian Xiaohui saw how terrifying Wu Xiaofei was. Wu Xiaofei took the opportunity to beat her up and warned her that since she was working with him, she must understand that there are some things that she cannot tell anyone, including her most trusted relatives. After returning to her work station, Tian Xiaohui was still frightened and wanted to call Tao Wuji but gave up. Tao Wuji and Hu Yue worked hard to promote Huinong loans in the village. Most of the fruit farmers showed interest, but Uncle Damao was still stubborn. The fruit farmers were curious about the APP that Tao Wuji was talking about, and Tao Wuji promised that the APP would be launched soon. Since Zhao Hui was suspended for investigation, he has locked himself at home every day. Zhou Lin invited him to dinner on the pretext of repairing a light bulb and apologized for her previous behavior.

Zhao Hui didn't want to mention this topic and stood up to help Zhou Lin serve soup. Unexpectedly, Zhou Lin hugged him from behind. At this time, Su Jianren called to ask about Zhao Hui's situation. He originally had some sympathy for him, but when he heard Zhou Lin's voice on the other end of the phone, his expression immediately became ferocious, and he cursed in his heart that Zhao Hui deserved to be reported. After Zhao Hui answered the phone, he went home directly and did not look for Zhou Lin again. Because Su Jianren put all the responsibility on Zhao Hui, Zhao Hui fell into the spotlight. Rumors spread inside the bank. Everyone criticized Zhao Hui greatly, which made Tao Wuji very angry. Near noon, all colleagues were eating in the canteen. Tao Wuji took the initiative to sit next to Zhao Hui and publicly expressed his support and trust in him. He has always regarded him as his role model.

However, the progress of the technical department was delayed because of Zhao Hui. Tao Wuji communicated with Director Jia again and worked hard to get through to him. He worked all night long and finally completed the APP software two days later. The village began to build greenhouses, but a sudden heavy rain caught everyone off guard. When Tian Xiaohui learned that Secretary Luo had been fired and might face imprisonment, she panicked and called Tao Wuji, but he was busy dealing with the heavy rain and had no time to answer.