Interestingly, Dean also came across someone he hadn't met but who harbored resentment towards him: Lafferson. Lafferson was the deputy chief of the Detective Bureau, already old and about to retire.

Back when Dean was promoted to Detective Chief, according to normal procedure, someone from the Detective Bureau should have come forward to present him with a medal as encouragement, which also served as part of the induction process. But that old man Lafferson, harboring racial prejudices and about to retire, didn't even show Monet any courtesy. In the end, Dean, the youngest Detective Chief in the bureau, had a very low-key and unimpressive induction.

A gentleman's revenge can wait ten years, but it's never too late. Dean was no gentleman. He had never forgotten how that old man Lafferson had targeted him; he just hadn't found the opportunity to cause him trouble. Now, the opportunity had arrived!

Dean kept Lafferson in mind and continued to flip through the pages. Before long, as the records in the notebook neared their end, the content changed. The last few pages didn't record personal information but a case from over eight years ago involving the Detective Bureau's Anti-Gang and Narcotics Division.

File: LN87865.

Summary:

The Anti-Gang and Narcotics Division received a tip from an informant, discovering that a factory in the suburbs was disguising "flour" inside stone slabs for transport and sale, suspected to be connected with a Mexican drug cartel!

Detective Chief Li Shen, along with his partner, headed to...

...After Detective Chief Li Shen died in the line of duty, the armed suspect resisted and was shot dead on the spot.

Suspicions:

All evidence acquired for the case and the victim's autopsy report were lost. According to photographic backups, it was confirmed that Detective Chief Li Shen's autopsy report had been falsified. However, without a chain of evidence, it would be difficult to track further leads unless someone came forward. Account checks revealed that the wife of Li Shen's superior at the time had won a large sum of money at a Las Vegas casino.

The entry concluded there.

...

Dean put down the notebook and closed his eyes.

Li Shen... he was the biological father of the body Dean now inhabited.

After the collapse of the Carmen Family, Dean had originally planned to wait a year or so, until things became less conspicuous, before secretly investigating the matter himself. He considered it fulfilling a duty associated with his current identity. To his surprise, Saul Aston had actually used his father's death as a means to target Lafferson and his faction. Incredible!

As the saying goes, 'If you wish to condemn someone, you can always find a charge.' This was truly a plan to kill three birds with one stone. The Mexican drug cartel supplied nearly half of the 'flour' market in the United States. Once this case was linked to them, a whole network of involved individuals could be easily exposed. Saul Aston, upon taking office, would achieve a significant breakthrough, giving him an excellent start. And finally, there was himself... branded by this!

Dean sighed and nodded, "I understand, but I don't want my family involved in this."

Saul Aston, seeing Dean understood his intentions, nodded magnanimously, "No problem. Your duty is to solve cases and take over Monet's position as soon as possible. As for this particular matter, I'll entrust it to Eve."

After a few more brief words, Saul Aston gestured for Dean to leave.

...

What Saul and Eve talked about, Dean didn't know. He only knew that since that night, he hadn't been able to contact Eve.

「Several days later,」

Dean moved into a new home and invited his colleagues from the Fourth Squad for a gathering. This occasion also served to reorganize the Fourth Squad to handle a wider range of cases in the new year.

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