In the Name of the People: Zhong Xiaoai Unbuttons Me, and Hou Liangping Shows Up

Dim lighting, a secluded room, a man and a woman alone together.

When those fair hands, meant to leaf through official documents, gently reach toward Shen Yan's chest, their fingertips trembling as they undo his shirt buttons one by one, the tension in the quiet air instantly reaches a fever pitch. Their body heat mingles, their clothes come half undone, and just as they are a hair's breadth apart, in a moment ripe with implication...

"Bang!"

The door is suddenly shoved open.

Standing outside is Hou Liangping, his face livid as he glares at them.

And in a dark corner beyond their sight, a pinhole camera greedily blinks with a faint light, capturing those eight indefensible, "scandalous seconds". It is quickly edited into a salacious video capable of destroying any official's political career, then sent to the deepest, most unfathomable pit of power in Handong.

An illicit rendezvous with a friend's wife in a secret room? A honey trap of money and sex in the arena of power? Or a carefully laid chain of traps?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.