"Every last person in our family would be guilty of colluding with the enemy and betraying the nation. Confiscating our property and executing the whole family, exterminating three branches of our kin, would be getting off lightly. Bearing infamy for all eternity would be the ultimate disgrace. I certainly don't want to be dragged down by you!"
Madam Gao raged, "You've been bouncing around, jumping up and down, and you really think no one has noticed you? It's only because those things really aren't behind you pulling your strings that they haven't found anything. That's why they've kept you around, waiting to see what comes next! Did you think your work was truly seamless, without a single flaw?
"Do you know what a trumped-up charge is? One trumped-up charge would be enough to take you down. Do you think you're one of those men who actually get things done, like Ye Changqing, Xiang Kuangren, or Wen Xingtian, whom they can't touch and dare not touch? Who the hell do you think you are?"
Vice Principal Gao said nothing, keeping his head down as he took the scolding.
Madam Gao had said these things countless times before, but each time he had let them blow past his ears, dismissing them as a woman's softheartedness. Either he had brushed them off, or he had simply left for work in impatience.
But hearing these words again now, he broke into wave after wave of cold sweat, with wave after wave of fear in hindsight.
His hair stood on end, and he shuddered without feeling cold!
She was absolutely right!
After watching that day's recording, every single word Zuo Xiaoduo had spoken had stabbed straight into his heart.
The secrets of the Feng Shui pool had been peeled back bit by bit, followed by