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Chapter 541: Return of the.....Jinx!

Translator: Legge Editor: Legge

On this day.

On the weekend.

The flowers were blooming for spring's arrival.

Zhang Ye had gone back to his parents' house last night. His parents were having a rest day today and his father was in the living room preparing meat fillings while his mother was making dumpling skins for the fillings.

Zhang Ye came out of his bedroom. "Dad, Mom."

His father looked over to him and said, "You're up?"

"Yeah, what's for lunch?" Zhang Ye glanced at them.

His mother turned around and smiled. "Dumplings with pork and leek filling."

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "Heh, dumplings are great, I will definitely eat more then."

"All you know is to eat. Why don't you help us a little instead?" His mother stared at him. "Go and get me some flour. I don't have enough for the dumpling skins here."

Zhang Ye laughed and said, "Yes, Ma'am! Edict received!"

The television was switched on and the news was being reported. On screen, a familiar figure appeared. It was Wu Zeqing in her new office being interviewed by the media. As Old Wu was now heading a department that dealt with important and sensitive issues, along with the recent problems that hit the SARFT in the past two days, the media immediately arranged to interview her. Her first day on the job was yesterday. They asked about some of the more pressing issues that the people had, and also asked about the direction of future policies that the SARFT would adopt from now on. For example, the current censorship rules for some television dramas or film productions and whether there would be any changes to them. Wu Zeqing spoke diplomatically and answered all the questions.

This was the interview from yesterday and it was just being rebroadcasted today.

His father who also watched it yesterday asked him out of concern, "President Wu has really been acknowledged this time. Did she get promoted by a rank?"

Zhang Ye nodded, "She's now a leading ministry's deputy chief."

His father also knew a little about politics and government, mainly from listening to others. "I heard that by qualification this appointment should not have been assigned to President Wu. After all, her age is still not there yet and having such a young deputy chief when there aren't even a few of them around in the whole country, not to mention that she's also a woman? That's even rarer than rare. Looks like your President Wu really has good fortune. This is a promotion by three ranks to a high-ranking official now."

Good fortune?

Maybe everyone would think so, but only Zhang Ye alone knew this fortune was not god sent but was a result of his use of the difficulty adjustment die. Of course he could not tell this to anyone and even if he did, no one would believe him as even he himself was still a little dazed by all this. The difficulty adjustment die had given him great help this time as its effects had been huge. At the start, it was just winning a lucky draw on his cell phone, then came being broadcasted live for his performance, not once, not twice, but thrice! Following that, his success at wooing Old Wu was a testament of just how great the effect of the die was. Everything went smooth sailing for him and when it had done more than what Zhang Ye could have expected from it, something even more surprising happened. Not only did it help the southbound Wu Zeqing stay behind, it even helped her gain a big promotion to the post of deputy chief of the SARFT. This was as good as meat pies falling from the sky!