East Fourth Ring South Road, outside the entrance of Chaoyang Economic Investigation Team.
Chen Cheng sat in the car, looking towards the gate, waiting for someone to come out.
A night's time can change many things.
Gunghua Consulting, which had stirred up a huge online storm, seemed to have disappeared with the sunrise this morning.
It was as if it had never appeared or, alternatively, it had transformed and continued to exist in this Great Wall forged by money.
Chen Cheng was not clear on what price or what equivalent exchange conditions the Chen and Cao families had proposed, but what he did know was that the startling numbers and the thorough revelations had vanished with the morning rush hour traffic, lost in the swirling exhaust fumes.