en dismissing everyone around them.Soon, only Li Chen and Zhao Qinglan were left in Xizheng Hall."Let's cut to the chase."Li Chen's eyes looked at Zhao Qinglan neither coldly nor warmly, and without a...immediately."To jump from the position of Weihaiwei's magistrate to that of Beijing's prefect is like ascending from a prefecture-level city to a municipality directly under the central government. Th...