Before dawn arrived.
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For the average citizen, anyone associated with the government was deemed very capable and powerful; thus, Li Dajun, though he was only a deputy director-level civil servant in his forties, was considered quite impressive in the eyes of Wang Yuqin and others—especially because he worked at the police station, which made Wang Yuqin think even more highly of him.
In his youth, his family was so poor that the marriage prospects presented to him were all subpar. And because he had attended high school, qualifying him as an educated individual, he didn't want to settle for an ordinary rural girl who couldn't even read. But back then, he too worked the fields, and not as efficiently or extensively as others. His family was so destitute they could barely keep the pot boiling, let alone imagine wedding an educated girl.
This way, one thing led to another, and he found himself seriously delayed.
