The Favored Heiress
Chapter 685: Power Against Power

Chapter 685: Chapter 685: Power Against Power

By now, the deputy director’s face had become indescribable.

The words "Uncle Sa" from Li Qiao nearly made him shudder with fear.

So, this girlfriend of the Young Master of the Shang Family who had overstayed her detention was the so-called high-ranking Burmese official?!

That didn’t seem right.

The deputy director shivered and quickly called a police officer, ordering them to retrieve Li Qiao’s custody information as soon as possible.

He remembered that the document she had signed clearly stated she was a Parma Citizen.

Sayyibun straightened up, hands behind his back, his gaze locked onto Li Qiao’s figure, "Are you injured?"

Li Qiao spread her hands with a smile, "No, don’t worry about me."

Ning Yuanyang’s mouth twitched, was this diplomat seriously thinking they would administer extrajudicial punishment?

"Mr. Sa, now that we have found her, then we should..."

Sayyibun raised his hand, speaking strictly business, "Please, open the door first."

Ning Yuanyang gestured to the deputy director, while the officer who received the call came running over with the keys and custody records.

The door to the detention room opened, and without another word, Sayyibun walked in, "Please step aside for a moment, we need to talk privately."

Ning Yuanyang courteously agreed, then turned and sternly said, "Come with me."

Around the corner of the corridor, the deputy director, holding Li Qiao’s documents and sweating profusely, hesitated, "This... Speaker Ning, she’s a Parma Citizen, not supposed to be a Burmese official."

Parma did not have a dual citizenship system, and as an independent country, everyone knew how prestigious the identity of a Parma Citizen was.

At that moment, Ning Yuanyang took the documents and flipped through them, "Have you also checked the citizen information system?"

The deputy director was about to nod when a police officer tugged at his sleeve, "Deputy, she... is not yet a Parma Citizen."

"What?!"

The officer looked cautiously at Ning Yuanyang and the deputy director, dryly explaining, "To be precise, she’s only... a prospective Parma Citizen, her citizenship procedures haven’t been fully processed yet."

This normally wouldn’t have been a big deal, as prospective citizens were typically treated as nationals according to convention.

Therefore, when the Tribal Chief’s Council demanded accountability, they never considered Li Qiao to be involved.

Ning Yuanyang pinched the bridge of his nose and pointed at the deputy director, "You’ve been too careless."

Seeing this, the officer’s eyes flickered, thinking of a perfect excuse, "Speaker Ning, you can’t blame us for this, her detention expired at ten o’clock this morning, we were going to release her but she wouldn’t leave."

"Really?" Ning Yuanyang raised his eyebrows in surprise, sensing that things were not so simple, "What did she say at the time?"

The officer looked at the deputy director, who gave a signal with his eyes, and then stated truthfully, "She only said one thing, to remember to have Patriarch Ming come in person..."

While Ning Yuanyang was pondering the meaning behind those words, the deputy director suddenly came to a realization, as beads of sweat began to drop.

He finally understood.

Li Qiao deliberately didn’t leave and asked the highest representative from the Embassy to accompany the Tribal Chief’s Council to the police station to identify her, clearly exposing Tan Sri’s identity to compel Elder Ming to personally intervene... and request her release.

That was the real meaning behind her words.

——Remember to have Patriarch Ming come personally.

The Ming family didn’t rely on evidence to demand compensation for the Cultural Garden losses, the police station favored the Ming family, and unlawfully detained her without authority...

And Li Qiao’s deadly counterstrike turned them all into culprits.

What a powerful move of authority against authority!

With this thought, the deputy director’s legs went soft, and he could even imagine the chain reaction this incident would cause.

Myanmar’s high-ranking officials were arbitrarily detained by the district police station, which violated the diplomatic relations law between the two countries.

As a Myanmar honorary Tan Sri, the Embassy had every reason to pressure the Tribal Chief’s Council for negotiations.

By that time, the entire case-handling process would become leverage, because the police station indeed had no evidence to prove that Li Qiao was the one who set fire to the Cultural Garden.

When it escalated to the level of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Ming Zhiyuan wouldn’t dare not to show up unless he wanted to become a national criminal.

No matter which link, the police station was at fault, the Ming family was at fault, the only one who would come out unscathed was Li Qiao.

The deputy director, with many years of case handling, could infer the rough trajectory of the event just from a hint of a trace.

All of this made him regret deeply.

The case of Li Qiao should have been handled impartially by him right from the start.

It wasn’t long before Sayyibun walked out of the detention cell alone and casually closed the iron door behind him.

The deputy director was nearly unable to stand, the approach of the diplomatic representative confirmed his speculation.

Ning Yuanyang stepped forward casually, frowning at the iron door he had closed behind him, his face showing suspicion, "Mr. Sa?"

With lips pursed, Sayyibun passed by him with a deep look in his eyes.

He said nothing, yet it was as if he had said a thousand words.

Mr. Sayyibun, who represented the highest leadership of the Myanmar Embassy, walked straight out of the police station, got into the Embassy car, and headed straight for the Parma Chieftain Court.

Ning Yuanyang had a bad feeling, so he also scrambled into the car and told the driver to follow immediately.

Before leaving, he looked at the deputy director with a solemn expression and issued a final ultimatum, "Prepare yourself mentally, if the diplomatic envoy causes trouble, the country won’t allow the diplomatic relationship to be damaged, understand?"

The deputy director nearly collapsed to the ground, he understood all too well.

If Myanmar made trouble, everyone at the district police station who had touched this case would be sent to the Tribal Chief’s Council to face national trial.

The deputy director could barely stand with the help of the police assistants, looking around aimlessly for a long while before murmuring, "The chief has good fortune indeed, to avoid a disaster of this magnitude."

The officer’s face was just as pale, as if soulless, he blurted out, "If the chief was here, he might not necessarily give the Ming family face either."

Everyone knew that the chief’s surname was Wei and his son and nephew were said to hold important positions in the Shang’s.

...

In the afternoon, while at the old house, Ming Zhiyuan received another call from the lawyer.

Looking at the flowers and plants in the backyard, his wrinkled old face still held a trace of enjoyment of the view, "Does she agree to the compensation?"

By this time, the lawyer had already returned to the police station, sitting in the reception room looking at the deputy director who was devoid of hope, he spoke in a lowered voice, "Elder Ming, there has been an issue."

"What happened, what’s wrong with her?"

Ming Zhiyuan sat up straight by instinct, bright sharpness shining through his cloudy eyes.

The lawyer hesitated over his words, struggling to speak for a while, "Maybe you should come and see for yourself?"

Ming Zhiyuan responded sarcastically, "If I personally go there, wouldn’t that just fulfill her wishes?"

"This..." The lawyer hesitated, unsure of how to explain, while the phone suddenly filled with the butler’s urgent call, "Master, stop making calls, someone from the Chief’s Mansion has come."

"What? Who did you say has come?"

Immediately after, a beeping tone echoed through the phone.

Ming Zhiyuan never imagined that, after riding the ups and downs for most of his life, he would ultimately be brought down by a young girl.

The official sent by the Tribal Chief’s Mansion for negotiations was still a staff member from Ning Yuanhang’s faction.

Their request was simple, for Ming Zhiyuan to personally go to the police station to apologize to the Myanmar Tan Sri.