This episode showed the double life Bai LiangLiang has lived since childhood. She resents that her parents are poor and that the upper crust people Rao YuCi’s family belongs to would snub her in a heartbeat if they knew her true origins instead of her fabricated diplomat story. She resents the most that all this opportunity falls to YuCi who seems to have no aspirations at all compared to her ambitions. She truly believes they are wasted efforts that she should be entitled to because she has the most desire for them. YuCi must still be fond of the MingXuan that was. Her failed life for him let him focus on paying off his debts and on family. Rather than being resentful, he sees himself indebted to YuCi. He has returned to his kinder self and seems much happier than when he was under LiangLiang’s thumb at Lysen. YuCi had him deliver medical supplies to a pet project of Mr Yu that Lysen refused to help with. She made Yu show up in person and MingXuan the liaison of the transaction. She also had a business investigation done by her friend, Zhou LuFeng, and Mr Jiang got to see the results. Jiang is reminded that his colleague did not choose to disappear from the company. They cancelled him when he would not play along with their plans and he advised them of the dangers of that type of investing. LiangLiang and her buddy now leading dept one have tried to run over the renewal plans of dept three by buying the buildings and forcing tenants to be out in three days. It is further complicated by Lysen threatening any movers helping them to be blackballed from future business dealings. Mr Yu and dept three come to the rescue by providing the moving trucks needed to help them relocate. These were the grateful truckers that had delivered the medical supplies. They had no issues assisting the LinWei people moving. Chen Mo notes to YuCi that she seems to have made new friends. We are seeing how LiangLiang soothed the ego of Mr Rao when YuCi tried to discourage him from investing poorly. He felt judged by her because he didn’t want to acknowledge that his daughter was wiser with business transactions than he would ever be. His ego will let him bankrupt his family and feel justified doing it.😝 He says that his family is his motivation for his investments and that he is tired of his daughter jinxing his plans. If he had half the brain his daughter does he would see that she was saving the family from financial ruin. The daughter he wished he had doesn’t give a rat’s arse if he fails or not as long as she is seen as loyal to Mr Jiang. The one thing all Lysen leaders, with the exception of Yu, have is willing obtuseness to how their acquisition of property effects those relocated. Ethics are not the driving force of this company. That is made crystal clear with the premature tenant eviction and refusing to allow them moving vehicles to take care of their businesses and families. There is a very distinct and polar difference between the mindsets of YuCi and LiangLiang. Even with justice as her motivation, YuCi shows character and principle in protecting the innocent and less fortunate. LiangLiang simply sees them as stepping stones or obstacles to step on or toss out of the way.
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