The Showdown!
Bai Xiaoche had once thought Liu Xiangdong wanted to move to another city because he couldn't find a suitable job in Beijing. Since she clearly couldn't leave, he had simply made an excuse to break up with her.
But now it seemed possible that Liu Xiangdong hadn't been unable to find a job in Beijing at all. Someone might have been making sure he couldn't find one.
The only relatives of hers capable of doing that were on her mother's side of the family.
Bai Xiaoche had her suspicions and wanted to confirm them, so she decided to cut her trip short.
Bai Erru and Bai Mama were no longer in the mood to keep traveling, either. Somehow, Wang Yue had managed to get their parents jobs at Future Technology, where they earned two or three times what they used to every month. Now they could no longer find a way to deal with him.
Seeing that this approach wasn't going to work, the couple decided to try something else: confront Wang Yue directly and make it clear they disapproved.
So when Bai Xiaoche said she wanted to return to Beijing, Bai Erru and Bai Mama agreed at once.
Their ready agreement made Bai Xiaoche suspicious. She even wondered if she'd been judging her parents too harshly.
But the seed of doubt had already been planted, and she decided she would let the facts speak for themselves.
Bai Xiaoche wanted to get to the bottom of things, but Bai Mama didn't want her to have a chance to see Wang Yue. She contacted Bai Xiaoche's professor ahead of time and asked Professor Liang to lure her back to school.
As it happened, after more than half a month of review, the Soilless Cultivation technique Bai Xiaoche had proposed