After saying that, he glanced at Nanny Wu standing beside the iron gate, then turned and ran off angrily.
"Hey..."
Su Qiao reached out to grab him, but couldn't even catch the hem of his clothes.
Watching the fellow run faster and faster down the street beneath the streetlights, Su Qiao was a little bewildered.
"Who looked down on him? Who rejected him?"
"How did this guy end up feeling inferior?"
Everyone compared him with his elder brother. Ever since he was little, his father had told him that he was inferior to his elder brother in every way. After hearing that for so long, he had naturally become depressed and developed an inferiority complex.
"What exactly is going on with his family?" Su Qiao was genuinely curious.
It seemed that Marshal Chu had disliked him ever since he was very young, favoring only his elder brother. Madam Chu, on the other hand, granted his every request, indulged him terribly, and protected him in everything.
Su Qiao stroked her chin and stared at the empty street for a while. "There must be more to it than this. Go listen in on what people outside are saying."
All right.
"Miss, it's late. Let's go back!" Nanny Wu came over with a wool coat in her hands and draped it over her.
Su Qiao tugged at her collar and followed Nanny Wu back inside.
That night, around three in the morning, a dark figure leaped out of the window and vanished into the darkness of the rear garden within a few blinks.
Her target tonight was Manager Qian of Liming Bank.
She wanted to see whether she could find account books or other evidence from him.
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Since she had investigated everything in advance, the operation went extremely smoothly.
However, she hadn't