"Is that so?" Li Lin had already received the news, but he chose to feign ignorance. He turned his gaze toward Zhang Fangshou, the Chief of the General Affairs Office at the Headquarters.
Zhang Fangshou stood up and said, "Director, the Secrecy Bureau has suppressed the matter. The information circulating outside is inaccurate. I myself only received the reliable report an hour ago. Seeing that you were exhausted from your trip back from Baocheng today, I intended to wait until dinner to report it to you."
Zhang Fangshou was a seasoned veteran of the bureaucracy and highly experienced in handling his superiors. If someone like Xiao Siru had been tasked with answering that, he certainly wouldn't have done it as reasonably as Zhang. This alone showed how dissatisfied Li Lin was with his position as Director of the Headquarters; with a war raging outside, Li Lin had been forced to appoint a scholar as his Chief of Staff. He was little more than a puppet with no real power, but because of his distinguished service during the War of Resistance, the "Old Man" had no choice but to give him this high-ranking yet powerless title.
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