The First Loser of the Day

In Yuhuiyuan Community on Lihua Street in Dragon Mouth District, Ba Gu had bought groceries early in the morning but did not head home right away. Instead, she sat in the community fitness park with a handful of sunflower seeds, chatting away with the others:

"...The old Ren family is really living it up now. Their son found himself a powerful backer!"

"What kind of powerful backer is their son? That silly ranking is just something young people look at. It's useless! And he works at some academy, as... what was it again... oh, right, a school doctor! Just hearing that tells you everything. He's neither in administration nor teaching, just collecting a fixed salary. No future in that."

"But the girlfriend he found is impressive. Do you know about the Countermeasures Bureau? The government's hottest new department! His son's girlfriend, tsk tsk tsk, is the deputy director of the Lianjiang City Countermeasures Bureau. Isn't that something?"

"My Sixth Aunt's son's neighbor is the captain of our White Cloud Countermeasures Bureau. I heard squad captains in the Countermeasures Bureau get great benefits and have bright futures, and they can even get cultivation slots. Immediate family members get priority ascension—no, priority cultivation! Any approved medicine or whatever would definitely go to the Countermeasures Bureau first."

"Just look at that. His son actually found a deputy director from Lianjiang City as a girlfriend. Their family is this now." She gave a thumbs-up. "And that's Lianjiang, one of the country's four top-tier cities. Who knows how much power a deputy director like her holds in her hands..."

Ba Gu spoke while cracking sunflower seeds, her tone full of envy. "If his son can marry such a girlfriend, then with her backing them up, their family can swagger all over Lianjiang in the future.