Bai Mama was taking off her jewelry. As she looked in the mirror, she noticed Bai Erru sitting there in a daze after hanging up the phone, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Bai Erru was out of options. All he could do was count on his wife's connections, so he honestly told her what his subordinates had found out.
But he didn't have any real hope. Bai Mama's family background was powerful, but compared with President Meng's, it was like a candle next to the sun.
Bai Mama was a wealthy heiress, after all. She wasn't about to throw an egg at a rock. So although she was frustrated when she heard the news, she had no intention of asking her family for help.
Still, the thought left her seething. She said indignantly, "We've already been out here for more than half a month. If we still can't deal with Wang Yue, are we really going to let him and Xiaoche keep dating? Just thinking about it makes me feel like all my old friends are going to laugh at me."
Bai Erru imagined having a son-in-law who worked as a security guard and figured his old friends would laugh him out of town. Worse, this son-in-law was incredibly hard to control. He couldn't tolerate that.
Grinding his teeth, he said, "It looks like the methods we used against Liu Xiangdong won't work on Wang Yue. We'll have to try something else."
Bai Mama frowned. "What?"
Bai Erru gritted his teeth. "Wang Yue has a secure job, so there's not much we can do to him. His parents probably just work at some ordinary state-owned factory. Tell someone to have them both fired."
What Bai Erru was suggesting was completely against the rules. Under the policies at