Bai Group Tower.
The Bai family's current head, Bai Yang's younger sister Bai Hongdan, was hurrying toward the basement.
The way down was brightly lit, clean, and tidy, without the oppressive, sinister atmosphere of an "evil villain's base."
Every employee of the Bai family was busy doing their own job.
The clack of high heels echoed down the long underground corridor. She headed straight down until there was nowhere farther to go, where a door appeared.
Whoosh-
The metal door opened automatically.
"Everything's a mess, and you still aren't going to do anything?" Bai Hongdan urgently asked the person inside.
The room was not large, but screens filled every inch of space in every direction. The man sitting with his back to her in an office chair did not even turn his head. "Do what?"
"Get things under control, of course!" Bai Hongdan said. "This must have happened because that man named Shen Hai learned a lot of secrets when he sneaked in a few days ago. Why did you stop me back then?"
"Now the secret of the [Eye Realm] has been exposed to the public. Spirit Pupils already have emotional inclinations, and panic on this scale is bound to cause unpredictable changes. You let Shen Hai leave this place with those secrets. Aren't you partly responsible for how things have turned out?"
"Oh, you mean that," the man said with a smile. "Shen Hai wasn't the one who caused this commotion. Besides, I let him leave because the secrets he learned here would no longer be secrets once Qin Manjiang returned from [Guanyin Flat Lake]."
Bai Hongdan was speechless.
Only after a long while did she glance at the screens and ask, "Are you really planning to do nothing?"
"Because it's useless," the man said bluntly. "The Bai