If it were me, fresh out of the gate, I would have been burning with righteous indignation, eager to personally teach Qin Lei and Sun Miao a lesson.
But not anymore.
It wasn't that I was afraid, or that I had any other reservations. It was because I had learned a trick, "staying out of it," from Yu Shuang.
No matter the environment or the situation, the one orchestrating the plan must always learn to hide behind the scenes.
Only when your opponent cannot fathom you will the scales of victory tip in your favor!
In today's martial world, there will always be those petty individuals willing to become pawns for the sake of profit, to be driven by others.
Their purpose in existence is to disgust you, to infuriate you.
Pawns are merely cannon fodder; the one truly playing the game of victory and defeat with you is always the one holding the pieces and setting the board.
When you cannot comprehend these situations, you will be blinded by a single leaf, unable to see the vast mountain, and led by the nose by your opponent.
However, once you understand the true meaning of the game, you will grasp many things you once refused to understand, and even disdained to understand.
Winning first is not winning; losing last is losing!
Although Yu Shuang had been on a winning streak regarding Wang Yangming's affairs,
I knew that what would truly seal the victory or defeat of this matter... would be the upcoming birthday banquet!
Since the Queen Bee was determined to drag things out until Wang Yangming's birthday banquet to confront him and secure the maximum benefit for herself...
I would, precisely, not let her have her way!
By releasing the photos and videos to the public before Wang Yangming's birthday banquet, I would directly bring him down while simultaneously nipping Yu Shuang's scheme in the bud!
Ignoring Qin Lei and Sun Miao, who were like dogs fighting each other, I left the food street and had Cheng Minglang take me back to the hotel.
The first thing I did upon returning to the hotel was to pack my things and change my lodging.
Although the spy had been found, it did not mean my current whereabouts were absolutely secret or private.
The bustling and mixed-crowd urban area was likely no longer a safe place to stay.
This was because the urban areas had the most diverse range of people from all walks of life.
Often, it wasn't that I was bad at hiding, nor that the tails behind me were too good at tracking, but rather that Yu Shuang understood how to leverage influence.
So this time, after packing my things and leaving the hotel, I decisively changed my approach. I moved away from the crowded urban areas, and had Cheng Minglang turn the car and take me to the suburbs.
After finding a guesthouse in Nanyang Town in the suburbs and checking in, I immediately rushed to the photo studio...
Since I had decided to release the photos and videos in advance, I had to be fully prepared.
After plugging the video copied onto the USB drive into the computer and playing it, I asked the owner to extract several explosive frames from the video according to my requirements and print them as photos.
Along with the previous photos, for a period of time afterward, I didn't know how many times I had asked the owner to reprint the photos.
All I knew was that when I walked out of the photo studio with my heavy backpack, the owner's mouth was smiling so wide it almost couldn't close!
...
Throughout history, there has been a saying:
After all, winds move, but trust... leaks!
The more people who knew about the evidence, the greater the risk of exposure.
Just as I was contemplating how to tell Han Qingmei about the breakdown of our cooperation in a more tactful manner...
Unexpectedly, she had come for another reason. Han Qingmei said on the phone that she had another matter to ask of me.
This matter not only involved gambling but also offered a substantial reward, and she wanted me to meet her to discuss it in detail.
Although she didn't explicitly state it, I could roughly guess that it must be related to orchestrating games or being a skilled gambler.
Since Han Qingmei had been very cooperative before, and I was a bit short on cash recently, I didn't refuse and directly arranged a meeting place with her...