Predicament
"I'm innocent, sir! There's no trick to it. You just tailor your approach to the person. Look at this guy—one gun to his head and he confessed. There was no need for hypnosis!"
Li Bai wailed, playing the victim.
Playing the victim is the only way to survive under Mom's thumb!
"Hmph! There's nothing remotely technical about it. You're obviously cheating the government out of money."
Han Xiuying released her son's ear.
"It was purely volunteer work. I even paid for the boxed meals out of my own pocket."
The two pots of seafood soup Li Bai had made to reward the NanHu District Public Security Sub-bureau officers working overtime would have been enough to buy boxed meals for him for ten years.
"Who knows if that's true?"
Of course, Mom wasn't about to believe him just like that. She still felt her son wasn't telling the whole truth.
Diana covered her mouth, snickering with glee.
In her view, Xiao Bai's carefully crafted image as a well-behaved boy was bound to crumble sooner or later. It was only a matter of time.
After all, Auntie was always in Japan and busy with work. Unlike if she were back home, she couldn't keep such a close eye on Li Bai's current situation.
Despite Li Bai's antics, they had still paid off.
The Qing Tian Family questioned the five Yakuza separately.
They were only minor underlings and wouldn't know much, but the family still managed to get a few valuable leads out of them.
The group they belonged to was called the Hundred Tails Office—a social organization affiliated with the Yakuza—or the Hundred Tails. It was a small outfit of about fifty or sixty people, and they took orders from the Fengji Group.
So, all they had to do was follow