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Chapter 290 - 256: [Impatience Ruins Grand Plans, Settling Scores After the Fall!]

Chapter 290: Chapter 256: [Impatience Ruins Grand Plans, Settling Scores After the Fall!]

As night fell, darkness replaced light and enveloped the earth, and one by one, lights illuminated Dong hai, known as the Dongfang, making the night alluring.

Under the cover of night, the Sun God Hotel, reputed to be the hardest to book into in Dong hai, shone brightly. The parking lot beneath was filled with cars, mostly mid-range sedans and a few Coaster minibuses.

In terms of price, these cars wouldn’t stand out in Dong hai, let alone in some small county towns, but their license plates and the passes placed on the corners of their windshields were enough to command respect from multimillionaires.

This was why the Four-star Sun God Hotel was called the hardest to book into — it was under the Dong hai Municipal Committee and City Government, specifically used for hosting official guests!

"Ziz—"

At nine o’clock, the latest model Audi A8L came to a halt in front of the Sun God Hotel after an urgent braking, the friction of the tires against the ground screeching sharply.

Hearing the piercing screech and seeing the Audi A8L severely speeding after entering the hotel driveway, the security guard initially wanted to step forward and reprimand, but the sight of the pass in the corner of the windshield made him hastily stop in his tracks.

At the same time, the car door opened, and without waiting for the driver to get out and open the door, a woman in a beige coat pushed open the door herself and stepped out of the car with a stern face, striding toward the hotel.

Click clack! Click clack!

As she walked, the sound of her high heels striking the ground was crisp, her noble, imposing aura and stern expression making the guards unable to look directly at her.

Not just the guards, but also the hotel’s welcome attendants and the lobby manager, upon seeing the woman enter the lobby, also couldn’t meet her gaze.

"Hello, may I ask if you are staying or ..."

Afterward, out of duty, the lobby manager stepped forward, bowing slightly and asking with a professional smile on his face.

"I’m looking for Bai Guotao."

The woman uttered five words expressionlessly, scaring the lobby manager into swallowing back the words that had reached his lips!

As the lobby manager, she was well aware that today’s most esteemed guest was Bai Guotao, who had come with a Lingnan business delegation to Dong hai to discuss cooperation between the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta economic zones with the Municipal Committee and City Government!

Under such circumstances, the woman’s blunt use of Bai Guotao’s name was shocking.

"Hello, please show your ID, and after we verify your identity, I will call Secretary Bai’s assistant..." After the shock, the lobby manager struggled a moment, but still chose to proceed by the book.

However—

Before she could finish her sentence, the woman stopped, frowned, and glaring at the lobby manager, coldly spat out a word, "Scram!"

"Uh..."

A low "scram" resounded like thunder by the lobby manager’s ear, leaving her petrified and rooted to the spot, too frightened to even breathe heavily.

For instinct and reason told her, someone who dares to directly call Bai Guotao’s name could, with a mere word, have her packed up and rolled out of there!

Click clack! Click clack!

Later, amidst the lobby manager’s fearful mood and the stunned expressions of other hotel staff around, the lady with a cold face walked toward the elevator.

This time, no one stopped her!

A minute later, the woman reached the hotel’s top floor in the elevator.

"Ding dong—"

Accompanied by a clear sound, the elevator doors opened, and the woman walked out of the elevator with a cold face.

"Madam."

At the entrance of the luxurious suite, Bai Guotao’s bodyguard and driver, Lin Tong, seeing the woman in a beige coat, first paused, then quickly stepped forward, bowing and greeting her.

"Open the door."

The woman, treating Lin Tong’s greeting as if it were flatulence, brushed past him, leaving behind a cold statement.

"Yes, Madam!"

Feeling the enormous rage from the woman, Lin Tong didn’t think twice and agreed, then quickly walked to the door of the luxurious suite without asking Bai Guotao and, taking out the room card, placed it on the door sensor.

"Ziz—"

A soft sound issued, the door opened, and the woman entered with an icy face. The room was filled with smoke as if on fire, and a choking smell of smoke billowed towards her.

In the suite’s living room, Bai Guotao sat on the sofa with a grim expression, a cigarette between his fingers, which was half burnt but with white ash clinging on.

Apparently, he hadn’t smoked it since lighting it.

And in the ashtray before him, cigarette butts were already crammed!

"Bai Guotao, you sure seem to be sitting pretty calmly?" the woman marched up to Bai Guotao and said furiously.

Bai Guotao pinched out the cigarette butt and frowned at the woman, "Why are you here?"

"Why am I here? Xiao Luo has been thrown into jail, how could I not come as his mother??"

Hearing Bai Guotao’s question, Wang Hong, who headed a certain energy system, drastically shifted from her usual calm and composed demeanor to one of a shrew, emotionally roaring in anger.

Bai Guotao remained silent.

"Why won’t you save Xiao Luo? Tell me, why not??"

Seeing Bai Guotao’s silence, Wang Hong rushed to him, grabbed the collar of his shirt, and demanded an answer in a raised voice.

For Wang Hong, her greatest pride in life wasn’t becoming the head of a state-owned energy system or becoming the great daughter-in-law of the Bai Family, nor being the only woman from the third generation qualified to sit at the head table, but raising Bai Luo as the fourth generation successor of the Bai Family!

In such a situation, how could she accept that Bai Luo had not only lost his career path but was also facing decades of imprisonment?

"Let go."

Bai Guotao furrowed his brows, his voice hoarse as he commanded.

Shua!

Despite the rage in her heart, Wang Hong inherently obeyed Bai Guotao, and at his words, she subconsciously released her hands.

"It’s not that I don’t want to save him, it’s that I can’t."

Bai Guotao slowly began, his tone very low, "This is all a trap set by that bastard Ye Wenhao, Xiao Luo walked right into it, the evidence is conclusive."

"But you can’t just let Xiao Luo go to prison?" Wang Hong retorted, eyes red with rage.

"Not go to prison??"

Bai Guotao suddenly raised his voice, full of anger, seemingly lashing out at Wang Hong but actually furious over the grave errors Bai Luo had made.

"——"

Wang Hong opened her mouth but ultimately remained speechless.

As the great daughter-in-law of the Bai Family, she naturally knew the unspoken rules in politics that one must not touch; to do so meant certain doom!

"I went to the Yanhuang Organization East Sea Branch not to save him but to warn him not to let this matter affect the whole clan."

Bai Guotao spoke again, his words becoming increasingly heated, "Who knew that wretch wouldn’t see my intention, and in front of so many people, uttered that the Bai Family would not let the Ye Family’s bastard get away—Isn’t that giving away the game, clearly telling everyone that this matter involves the Bai Family?"

"Given this development, in order to protect the overall interests, I can only sever father-son ties and kick him out of the Bai Family!" By the end, Bai Guotao closed his eyes, exhausted.

The old saying goes, even tigers don’t eat their cubs, how could he make such a heartless decision if it weren’t absolutely necessary?

"Could there really be no other way?"

Rationally, Wang Hong understood everything Bai Guotao said, but emotionally, she could not accept that her son, whom she took pride in as the successor of the Bai Family, had become a prisoner; this blow was just too severe!

"There’s no way for now, we can only wait."

Bai Guotao’s eyes narrowly gleamed, "We wait for that old bastard of the Ye Family to kick the bucket. Once he does, the situation will change, and our Bai Family must seize the advantage first, naturally leading to Xiao Luo’s release."

"I can wait until then to save Xiao Luo, but I can’t wait until then to take revenge against that bastard of the Ye Family!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Hong, realizing this was the only option, reluctantly accepted but then spoke with a face full of hatred, "I want him dead immediately, right now!"

"Do you want to end up like Xiao Luo?" Bai Guotao’s expression chilled as he admonished.

Wang Hong, unwilling to give up, asked, "So we just let this go?"

"That Ye Family bastard is far more difficult to deal with than the rumours suggest, and we can’t take extreme measures. Even if we successfully take our revenge, we will pay a high price—the Ye Family members are waiting for us to make another mistake!" Bai Guotao said with a tight frown.

"If this can’t be done and that can’t be done, then what do you suggest we do?" Wang Hong grew anxious.

"A little patience can upset big plans; a Ye Family bastard isn’t worth stirring major conflicts over." Bai Guotao spoke with a wise expression, "Instead, we need to use him to achieve our goals."

"Huu~"

Wang Hong finally felt some of her pent-up anger dissipate after hearing Bai Guotao’s explanations. She exhaled a deep breath and said, "I’m sorry, I was too impulsive."

"As long as we have the green hills, we won’t worry about burning wood. One day, I will settle scores with them after the harvest!"

Bai Guotao quietly clenched his fists, his voice full of murderous intent.

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