After Crossing Over, I Marked the Empress

Reminded by her empress, Xu Zhao suddenly recalled something.

The Compound’s Ninth Supervisory Group had recently been investigating the violent expansion of three major financial groups in the district.

The issues involved were thorny and serious.

Such as infiltration of power among government officials, smuggling of prohibited goods, and forceful exploitation of vulnerable omegas.

These problems had never been thoroughly eradicated.

But before the coup occurred, the situation was much more restrained.

Now, perhaps knowing the empress was stretched thin,

Those hidden undercurrents couldn’t help but surface.

The Azure Bar Shen Han visited today happened to be one of the Guo financial group’s troublesome territories.

Realizing this, after executing the empress’s order, Xu Zhao also felt anxious.

“Your Majesty, shouldn’t we have Shen Han and the others leave there quickly? The Supervisory Group is gnawing on that tough bone; won’t her causing trouble like this alert them?”

Gu Junwan shook her head: “The Guo family’s deep waters aren’t easy to wade into. That’s why the Supervisory Group has been gnawing for over a month without success.”

“Perhaps this incident is a good opportunity, a breakthrough for the Supervisory Group to investigate deeply.”

Hearing Gu Junwan’s words, Xu Zhao wanted to say more but felt it might not be meaningful.

So she fell silent.

She removed her glasses, rubbing her brow, turning her gaze back to the surveillance projection.

In the footage, with the arrival of the police, the bar manager had escaped from Shen Han’s grasp.

Xu Zhao couldn’t help thinking: Isn’t Her Majesty overestimating that person? When the Supervisory Group members arrive, who knows if it’ll all be in vain?

If creating a breakthrough for in-depth investigation was so easy, those iron-faced judges wouldn’t be racking their brains over this matter.

A short quarter-hour passed.

The empress’s office had become a temporary command center.

Various personnel, centered on the Supervisory Group, stood ready.

Everyone closely monitored the situation’s development in the surveillance footage.

Once an opportunity arose, they could immediately launch a raid.

Azure Bar second floor hall.

Most guests were asked to temporarily stay in private rooms.

Only a few special VIPs and second-floor service staff stood in relatively safe places, craning their necks to watch the excitement.

Captain Huang rested one hand on his police belt, the other lightly stroking his holster.

He faced Shen Han with his nostrils, saying gruffly: “I’ve understood the situation. Come with me, we’ll take you back for a statement.”

“If I remember correctly, we were the ones who called the police. Captain Huang, you haven’t mistaken the complainant, have you?”

As soon as Shen Han finished speaking, a tall, thin officer immediately pointed at her and scolded.

“Is this a place for you to bargain? Keep obstructing the case, and we’ll take you in cuffs!”

Shen Han naturally wouldn’t be intimidated.

She turned slightly, gesturing for the officers to take a good look at the uniformed omega student.

“Why don’t you ask this young student how she ended up here? So eager to take us away, how do I know if you’re capable of protecting our country’s flowers?”

Perhaps due to her questioning attitude, or the pressure from a high-level alpha’s pheromones,

Captain Huang’s temper flared.

He unclasped his holster and drew his service weapon.

His large, muscular frame slowly approached Shen Han, then stared at her, enunciating each word: “Police law enforcement authority is inviolable!”

“First you assaulted the manager here, then unreasonably obstructed case procedures. I now have reason to suspect you of provoking trouble and disturbing public order! Do you want to walk yourself, or be taken away in cuffs?”

This black-and-white threatening speech was infuriating.

If Shen Han hadn’t given advance warning, Ning Xi and Ma Haoyu would have already rushed up to fight.

But Jiang Shuyi, hiding to the side, didn’t know this was Shen Han’s idea.

She stepped forward on trembling legs, looking up at Captain Huang: “Officer uncle, I’m a student from Democratic Middle School on 68th Street, Fourth District.”

“That sister isn’t a bad person, she just saved me. I came here because a senior introduced me, saying they were hiring summer workers.”

“But as soon as I arrived today, I was locked in a small room by the people here.”

The girl’s voice carried a hint of tears.

Her young, pretty face was already covered in tears.

The little girl was extremely scared at this moment.

But she understood: Those who gather firewood for others should not freeze in the wind and snow; those who clear the way for freedom should not be trapped in thorns.

So when she saw the heroic alpha who had saved her about to be arrested by the police,

She stepped forward trembling, trying to speak as clearly as possible to prove the other’s innocence.

The little girl’s words had barely reached halfway when Manager Sun was nearly scared to death.

He kept coughing to signal Captain Huang, not allowing the girl to continue speaking.

Captain Huang naturally understood this point.

He suddenly turned his head, glaring at Jiang Shuyi: “Shut up!”

As he spoke, he tried to move past Shen Han.

Unexpectedly, just as he began to move, a hand pressed on his shoulder.

The force of that hand wasn’t particularly strong.

But Captain Huang felt as if his shoulder had been seared by a red-hot iron.

The sudden burning sensation terrified him.

As he hastily retreated, he quickly patted his shoulder repeatedly.

“Continue speaking,” Shen Han turned her head, calmly addressing Jiang Shuyi.

“I said I pretended to have diarrhea to escape from the small dark room. I want to study well; when I grow up, I want to be a lawyer who speaks for the weak.”

“I don’t want to sell my marking rights here. I don’t want to sign the confidentiality agreement the men in black suits gave me.”

“I’m a person, not an item to be bought and sold.”

The high school omega’s slightly childish voice echoed clearly throughout the second-floor hall.

Weak, yet full of strength.

The two beta servers hiding behind the counter heard it.

The VIP guests standing with folded arms watching the commotion from afar also heard it.

Everyone inside and outside the empress’s office, closely following the situation’s development through screen sharing, also heard it.

Xu Zhao put her glasses back on her nose.

Looking at Shen Han maintaining her upright posture on the screen, she suddenly felt that the alpha her empress liked was truly impressive at this moment!

The Supervisory Group’s leadership also felt subtly excited.

Just that scene that had occurred in the footage,

Had already provided them with sufficient reason to raid and investigate all involved personnel.

Gu Junwan stood before the holographic projection screen, her expression maintaining calmness and composure throughout.

But her slightly upturned lips betrayed the empress’s current mood.

This special gift Shen Han had given her was exactly what she needed most right now.

Just as everyone thought the situation was about to conclude,

The enraged Captain Huang suddenly chambered his gun, strode forward, and pointed the muzzle at Shen Han’s head.

“You dare assault an officer! Don’t you believe I’ll blow your brains out!”

In fact, his shoulder bore no injuries.

But just thinking about how he had panicked and retreated earlier, thinking about how the little girl had publicly revealed the truth, made him furious!

Of course, he wouldn’t dare to actually fire.

Doing this now was just to forcibly salvage some face.

And to quickly take all these people away.

Shen Han naturally wouldn’t comply.

One look at how he held the gun told her he had never fired outside a shooting range.

Just as the next wave of party cannons from the first floor was about to roar,

Shen Han swiftly extended her palm, grasping Captain Huang’s gun-holding hand, with one finger behind the trigger.

The sudden attack left Captain Huang at a loss.

His index finger instinctively pulled back on the trigger, but he found his entire hand couldn’t move at all.

Before he could react,

The next second, the finger behind the trigger had withdrawn, changing to press on his index fingernail.

At the same instant, Shen Han’s head suddenly jerked to the side.

The bullet erupted from the chamber.

Shooting straight towards the wall inlaid with an entire pane of colored glass behind.

The gunshot and the party cannon from the first-floor dance hall roared simultaneously.

The shattering colored glass fell like a torrential rain, leaving a dazzling brilliance in the eyes of everyone on the second floor.

“The police fired! Someone’s been killed!”

Who knows who cried out these words.

The entire second-floor hall instantly descended into chaos.

Captain Huang collapsed to the ground, drained of strength.

Looking at the alpha smiling at him, he felt he must have encountered a ghost tonight.

The other officers who came with him were also terribly frightened.

They never imagined their captain would actually fire!

The only fortunate thing was that no one was hit; otherwise, all their futures would be over.

Equally close to collapsing from weakness was Gu Junwan, far away in the compound office.

The series of unexpected events had happened too quickly.

From seeing Shen Han held at gunpoint, to Shen Han acting, to the bullet shattering the glass wall behind her.

It all happened in just a few seconds.

But Gu Junwan felt as if she had traveled between hell and earth several times.

Her face began to turn pale.

Her golden phoenix eyes stared directly at the young alpha still standing on the screen, not daring to blink.

She feared that if she blinked, when she looked again, that person would be lying before her.

The echoes of the gunshot had faded, but Gu Junwan’s ears and mind still buzzed.

Tremendous fear turned into waves, pushing her memories back to that night several months ago when she left the New Li Country border.

Shen Han covered in blood, lifeless—she didn’t want to and dared not see that a second time.

After their initial shock, the Supervisory Group members quickly resumed their duties.

A shooting had occurred in the nightclub, and the shooter was a special patrol officer. The nature of the incident could be said to be very serious.

Once this fire started burning, no matter how big a protective umbrella the other side had, it couldn’t shield them!

Group members busied themselves issuing orders and arranging raid plans, no one noticing the empress’s unusual state.

Only Xu Zhao, who had been closely watching her, quickly stepped forward to support the swaying Gu Junwan.

The special assistant wiped her sweat, anxiously whispering in her ear: “Your Majesty, it’s alright. Shen Han wasn’t injured; she’s fine! I’ll bring her to see you right away.”