Shocked

The medication mustn't be stopped.

When Li Bai saw Zhao Liang walk in without asking, he was a little surprised, but his expression quickly returned to normal.

There were only wrong turns in life; there was no such thing as a wall with no cracks. The truth would eventually come out, and their little secret would be exposed sooner or later. It was only a matter of time.

He hadn't expected Comrade Zhao Xiaoliang, whose IQ was always in short supply around him, to catch on so quickly.

No one who passed the civil service exam was an idiot, much less a pushover.

Civil servants = cunning operators. The formula held true.

Zhao Liang had passed the civil service exam through his own ability and hadn't benefited at all from his father's connections. In fact, quite the opposite: he had nearly been dragged down by his old man.

Little Bai was a pain in his father's neck, but this father-and-son duo was a pain in the son's neck.

Zhao Liang's father, Zhao Biao, had gotten his civil service post through other means; unlike his son, he hadn't come up through the proper channels. After all, all roads led to Rome. If you couldn't pass an exam, there were other ways to get a government job.

As for why things had been so difficult and complicated, that was due to the feud between Zhao Biao and Li Bai's father, Li Wei (see the legendary million-subscriber novel The Nation Is Broken, Yet the Mountains and Rivers Remain, which had ranked first in subscription-to-purchase ratio on Qidian back in the day).

Although Zhao Liang usually had his wits about him, whenever he was around Li Bai, he was always hit by the stupidity aura. There was nothing he could do about it.

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