"We just did it, so there's half a chance, right?" Suzuki Junko looked at Xiu Xin with wide, watery eyes, feigning innocence.

Xiu Xin rolled his eyes, pretending to be helpless as he said, "I'll do my best to help your dad."

"Hehe." Suzuki Junko burst into laughter, leaned in and gave him a peck on the cheek, "I'm going for a shower now."

With that said, she lifted the quilt and got out of bed, her upper body was clothed in a uniform, but her lower body was bare. The uniform's hem couldn't cover the millstone-like full moon, white and smooth, supple and soft, gently shaking with her steps.

Several red finger marks were particularly noticeable above.

After showering, Suzuki Junko came out wrapped in a towel and got back into the bed, yawning and muttering indistinctly, "Aren't you planning to sleep yet?"

"I need to wait for a call, you go ahead and sleep." Xiu Xin shook his head, his tone calm.

Suzuki Junko upon hearing this, snuggled closer to him and said, "Then I won't sleep either, otherwise I'll just be woken up by your call even if I fall asleep."

"Ring-ring! Ring-ring!"

Just as her words fell, the phone started ringing.

"Speak." Xiu Xin picked it up and answered.

"Xiu... Mr. Aoyama, I've taken care of Oda Hidehiko's secretary." Tanben Yifu said.

Xiu Xin exhaled and broke into a relaxed smile, "Then let's proceed according to plan."

The role of the dead can sometimes be bigger than the living.

He then hung up the call, turned off the phone, and went to sleep.

"Hey!" Tanben Yifu, after Xiu Xin hung up, put down the phone. He took a deep breath, glanced at the others, then in the silence picked up the adjacent phone and dialed Tengji Yu's number.

Tengji Yu could be said to be among Ozawa Ichiro's closest allies, a right-hand man, once a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, followed Hatanaka Zizi and Ozawa Ichiro in leaving the party last year to form the New Party. He is now a senator, Minister of Finance, a heavyweight senior core of the New Party.

At this hour, Tengji Yu was surely asleep; the phone rang for quite a while before it was answered, "Moshi-moshi?"

"Minister Tengji, I'm Tanben Yifu, I'm really sorry for calling so late and disturbing your rest." Tanben Yifu's tone was low and reverent, letting the other party feel his respect and apology through the phone.

As a Cabinet Minister and senator, Tengji Yu had an impression of Tanben Yifu, and he said amicably, "Mr. Tanben, a late-night call must mean something important. No need to apologize, please speak directly."

"Hey! Minister Tengji, my friends and I have been talking all night, and we have some ideas we want to communicate with Vice Prime Minister Hatanaka. But before that, we hope to meet with you." Tanben Yifu said carefully considering his tone.

Upon hearing this, Tengji Yu's drowsiness completely vanished, he sat upright and said enthusiastically, "That's great! I'm also very eager to communicate with Mr. Tanben. Whenever it's convenient for you and your friends, just let me know."

Right now is the critical moment of power transition, Tanben Yifu's intentions were quite clear, the New Party needs to fight for every vote in Congress, especially since Tanben Yifu indicated there he had more than just one vote.

"Why not now? We're all soaking in the hot springs." Tanben Yifu suggested tentatively.

Tengji Yu was taken aback immediately, "Now?"

Although he was eager to meet with Tanben Yifu and others, he did not expect it to be so soon, but then he decisively said, "Okay, no problem, where are you soaking, Mr. Tanben? I'll head over now."

Sleep? What sleep? There'll be plenty of time for sleep after you're dead, if you're alive, you have to fight, strive!

"Hey! We're at... waiting for your arrival, Minister Tengji." Tanben Yifu reported the location of the club.

"Alright, see you shortly." Tengji Yu hung up the phone, got out of bed, and began to get dressed.

Meanwhile, Tanben Yifu put down the phone, looked around, and said bitterly, "After tonight, we'll have a deadly feud with the New Party, Hatanaka Zizi and Ozawa Ichiro will hate us to the bone."

"Sigh, unable to help it, with things as they are, we're forced to take one step at a time, if we don't do as Xiu Xin says, we won't make it through tonight."

"This lunatic, how dare he kill Oda Hidehiko! He's pushed us into this situation."

Everyone secretly resented Xiu Xin, but dared not defy him. They felt unspeakably frustrated.

No traffic at night, plus Tengji Yu's impatience, urged the driver to speed up. In less than an hour they arrived at the hot spring club, and a young man was already waiting at the club entrance to greet them. As the car stopped, he promptly stepped forward, bowed and opened the car door.

"Welcome Minister Tengji, please step out of the car."

Tengji Yu nodded slightly as he stepped out.

Stepping out and standing firmly, he said, "Lead the way."

"Hey! This way please, I'll first let you bathe and change clothes, Mr. Tanben and the others are in the hot springs waiting for you." The young man raised a hand to lead the way.

"Hmm." Tengji Yu nodded, following him into the club, casually asking, "How many of them are there?"

"Fourteen." The young man replied respectfully.

Tengji Yu was immediately ecstatic; he thought there were only three or five, but unexpectedly there were more than ten. Getting these fourteen votes would be a huge help for Hatanaka Zizi.

Excitedly he subconsciously quickened his pace.

"This place is quite large, but why does it feel like there are few service people." He soon noticed a problem.

The young man smiled slightly and explained, "Because there are not many guests at night, only those of us on duty are here, they are all serving the members."

"Oh." Tengji Yu nodded knowingly.

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