Gu Baijiang asked, "She was perfectly fine, so why did she go to the countryside?"
A dark fire burned in his heart. He kicked the manager before storming inside.
The cozy nest he had spent so much effort building for himself was now gone just like that. It had cost a lot of silver. How could his heart not ache?
"Master, should we report this to the authorities?" the manager asked. Enduring the pain, he had no choice but to approach him again.
"Report it?" Gu Baijiang laughed out of sheer anger. "I am the authority! If word gets out, wouldn't it humiliate me?"
How could he report it? This was a property he had secretly acquired, the place where he had settled Mrs. Li. If this got out, not only would the old woman at home cause a scene, but he also didn't know how many impeachment memorials would be filed against him next.
"But we lost so many things!" The manager was getting anxious, dreading how Madam Li would scold them when she returned.
