Sky Collapse

"What are you doing? I'm an official! Let me make a call!"

Old Man Bi shouted sternly, projecting considerable authority, but his trembling legs gave him away.

After Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu had run off, they spotted the commotion and quickly doubled back, hiding behind Teacher Qian and Zhang Butcher to watch the show.

Old Man Bi never got his call through before he was ruthlessly shoved into the police car and taken away with impressive efficiency.

Before leaving, one of the officers took pictures of Bi Yue's Porsche Cayenne. His strictly businesslike manner frightened Bi Yue.

Her heavy makeup could not hide how pale she had turned.

She was so dizzy that she staggered back several steps and had to brace herself against the wall to remain standing.

She was the bureau chief's daughter. Having grown up listening to her father talk, she understood such matters far better than ordinary people.

She knew exactly what it meant for the police to take her father away directly.

He had not even been given the chance to make a phone call.

Many of her father's peers had already moved their entire families abroad. Her father was attached to the old place, and her mother did not want to leave the country, so Bi Yue had been the only one overseas in recent years.

She had returned only after her father retired. After all, if she could enjoy herself in the country, why would she go abroad? All the connections she had built since childhood were here.

The envy of countless strangers could never compare to the complicated look in an old acquaintance's eyes.

Yet who could have expected something like this to happen now?

In that instant, countless chaotic images surged through Bi Yue's mind: her father being investigated, all