"Expose him?" Lin Qi repeated, then looked at the ashtray and tapped some ash into it before asking in return, "Why expose him?"
Mr. Wo Delike's mind worked quickly. "You want to sell a better favor?"
Lin Qi did not deny it. "So we shouldn't expose him right now. Instead, we should let him put on an even better performance."
"He's like a bus driver driving dangerously. If we stop him on a smooth road, people will think we're looking for trouble."
"What we should do is watch him charge toward the cliff with everyone aboard, without ever looking back."
"Then hit the brakes right before the cliff."
"Anyone who hasn't experienced narrowly escaping death will never understand how precious life is!"
Exposing Edward's scam now would bring Lin Qi no benefit.
He would be telling everyone that this was a con, a scam.
For those already immersed in the scam and unwilling to believe the truth, would they turn around and blame Lin Qi? It was a strange kind of displaced anger. Some people were deceived, and then someone reminded them that they had been tricked.
Their first reaction was not to offer thanks and immediately distance themselves from the scam, but to fly into a rage out of embarrassment.
They would think things like, How could I possibly have been deceived? and Do you think you're smarter than me? They would become resentful toward the person who warned them.
Even if the truth eventually proved that it really was a scam, they would not feel much respect for the clear-headed person. They would only want to stay away from him.
Even if there were no such people among them, Lin Qi exposing the scam would amount to announcing to society that the ruling class here had all been