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Unable to get more out of Zuocheng about the disappearance of Peng Yan without directly asking, which would have been unimaginably rude, Ru surreptitiously signaled the girl before he excused himself for the toilet.
Peng Yan. Peng Yan?
Gone missing?
The Director of the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission had gone missing?
If Yan had merely gone on an unannounced holiday with his mistress—such things were not unheard of—he still would have answered a summons.
But if the leadership had him removed, as quietly as they’d erased Ru’s former commander General Huan’s existence…
For Zuocheng to announce he was missing, something had gone very wrong. Unless he resurfaced soon and with some unassailable proof—such as a secret mission for the President—he wou
