Snow sat in the back seat of the sedan, watching the city lights race backward outside the window, his mind still in turmoil.
"What the hell is going on..." Snow muttered, anxiously tapping his fingers against the leather seat to ease his agitation.
Holy shit.
What the hell?
Those weren't exactly the words going through his head, but they pretty much summed up Snow's state of mind.
Confusion, bewilderment, tension, doubt...
He was confused because he had no idea why Lin Gong had approached him, and tense because he wondered whether Dorothy already knew everything and had deliberately sent Lin Gong out to bait him. One wrong move and he would fall straight into the trap. Either his family or his life would be finished.
Honestly, Snow wasn't sure whether Dorothy would dare uproot every one of those upper-class families and crush them all, especially at such a critical time. But one thing was certain: crushing his family alone would be easy.
Between a single cookie and a whole heap of cookies, the former was obviously easier to crush.
Once he calmed down, Snow really wanted to slap himself twice for proposing the investigative committee. Given the kind of person Dorothy was, if she found out he had suggested it, he probably wouldn't live to see tomorrow's news.
"Miss Lin Gong, I don't know what you mean. We were only chatting in the meeting room about how to make the Federation greater."
After weighing it over and over, Snow simply chose to play dumb. Whatever Lin Gong said, he would deny it outright. He had harbored a few little ambitions, but once his head cleared, those thoughts vanished.
Although Snow also wanted to weaken Dorothy's power, he felt a chill every time he thought of her. That woman's methods were