Chapter 184 She is the Regulator
In the port city, Bai Chumeng had just entered the study when a thick original book was thrown at her head!
She immediately tilted her head to avoid it!
He took a few steps, picked up the book, and placed it on the tea table beside him.
An elderly man with a full head of white hair sat at the desk. His cheeks were sunken, wrinkles piled up around his eyes, and his gaze was cloudy and cold.
"The Xu family submitted a new shipping policy this morning. At the previous pace, it could be approved in as little as a month. Who do you think it's aimed at?"
Bai Chumeng clenched her fists and calmly said, "Who else could it be but me?"
The old man's face turned ashen: "Didn't you promise me that the marriage agreement between the Xu and Cheng families would eventually be null and void?"
As a result, no sooner had Bai Chumeng transported a batch of inferior materials to Yanjing to frame Cheng Sangsang than the Xu family began to investigate and submit a maritime shipping plan.
"In just two months, you first dragged your aunt into this mess, and now you're taking it out on the Cheng family. Have you been bewitched by demons or monsters? Are you crazy or just stupid?!"
Bai Chumeng curled her lips: "...Grandpa, it's not some kind of demon or monster."
"What did you say?!"
"……nothing."
Bai Chumeng looked up again and smiled, "Grandpa, don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
“I won’t let her find out the source of those materials. Instead, once the official announcement comes out, you can use that to your advantage and put the blame on the Cheng family.”
“Grandpa, my goal has never been just to keep the Bai family languishing in the middle, but rather…”
She said, slowly and deliberately, "To stand at the pinnacle of the port city."
The old man was taken aback.
As soon as Bai Chumeng stepped out of the study, the smile on her face vanished instantly.
"Uncle Tiandao, the Bai family, from top to bottom, is a bunch of useless people without any ambition."
Behind her, the middle-aged man followed directly, smiling: "In this world, there are people like you, Miss, who dare to go all out, and there are also people who are law-abiding and sensible."
"Be law-abiding and sensible?"
Bai Chumeng felt a surge of irritation and turned to glare at him: "What's the use of a superior being obedient and law-abiding!"
The butler's eyes flickered, as if he had thought of something, and he said meaningfully, "...Being law-abiding also has its advantages."
"Such people are obedient and easy to control, which can bring unexpected surprises."
Bai Chumeng stopped abruptly, looking at him warily: "...Uncle Tiandao, what do you mean?"
The butler smiled slightly: "...It's nothing."
Bai Chumeng, however, keenly sensed something.
Who is being described as obedient and easy to control?
He said that he killed someone who was both important to him and someone he hated 18 years ago, so his scheme naturally started from that time, or even earlier.
So...she must not be the first person he used!
Bai Chumeng said coldly, "...Uncle Tiandao, tell me the truth, besides me, how many other people have you been looking for all these years!"
The butler smiled strangely.
Time dragged on, and he sometimes felt lonely. Since he was the only oddball left in the world, it didn't seem to matter if he talked about it.
“…Miss, you are a smart person.”
“Besides smart people, I’ve also looked for stupid people.”
"...She was a cowardly and greedy woman."
He shook his head as he spoke, "It wasn't that I was greedy from the beginning."
"But people can be easily seduced and their strongest desires can be aroused, so it is quite effective."
"She has been a great help to me over the years."
Bai Chumeng suddenly felt a chill and asked suspiciously, "...Who is it?"
...
At Yanjing Hospital, Cheng Sangsang rubbed her eyes blankly.
"What...what do you want to ask?"
"I don't really remember her, so I might not be able to answer your question."
Madam Jiang said calmly, "It's alright. I just want to know if she has ventured into the business world or anything else after marrying your father."
She investigated the accident from beginning to end for five years, and finally determined it to be an accident.
But now that her four children and Chuman are all still alive, it can't be an accident.
She prided herself on her keen eye for people; during Chu Man's years in the Jiang family, she appeared timid and weak.
But she needs to know whether this "weakness" is a facade or her true nature.
If she's in disguise, then she must have another identity.
If this is her true nature, then it means that there is a mastermind behind the scenes using her to stir up trouble.
Cheng Sangsang thought about it carefully.
He shook his head: "No."
"As you know, my eldest uncle is in charge of my family. My father doesn't own any property, and the women he married are all settled outside. They generally don't come back to the old house except for holidays."
Halfway through her sentence, her face flushed slightly, and she suddenly found it difficult to speak: "...My father has always liked the kind of weak, dependent women, and that hasn't changed in decades."
"In my memory, Chu Man was like that too."
"She doesn't often come out to see people, and..."
Cheng Sangsang turned to look at Tu Yao: "She won't take the initiative to go to Tu Xiaomao either."
At that time, she couldn't stand Tu Yao's excessive flattery before she lost her memory, so she complained to her uncle. Her uncle then asked Chu Man to discipline her, but she only went through the motions.
Strangely enough, Tu Yao, before losing her memory, didn't seem to like this "mother" very much.
To outsiders, the "mother and daughter" looked more like strangers.
"...In short, she did nothing."
Xu Chi added casually, "Chairman Cheng is an outstanding entrepreneur. Like you, he took over the Cheng family when it was in dire straits. He adhered to the principle of promoting the capable and demoting the incompetent, and quickly severed the ties between the collateral branches and even the direct line and the board of directors."
Madam Jiang nodded knowingly.
Xu Chi meant that if Cheng Sangsang's father had no chance of getting involved with the Cheng family's businesses, then Chu Man was even less likely to.
She married into the Cheng family and lived a quiet and obedient life as Mrs. Cheng for several years.
"She's always been like this."
Upon hearing this, Tu Chaoxi suddenly spoke, her brows furrowing slightly in annoyance.
"...In those years, as far back as I can remember, we lived in a small village in the south."
He glanced at Tu Yao in front of the bed and said, "It's even more remote than Crane Village, and its population is more than half that of Crane Village."
However, the connections between people are not as frequent and harmonious as in Crane Village; everyone just goes about their own lives.
“She doesn’t come often, sometimes once a month, sometimes once every two months.”
Tu Chaoxi scoffed: "It's like they just came to confirm whether we're still alive, and didn't do anything else."
When the past was mentioned, both Nan Ke and Lin Yue frowned in unison.
"So she's more like..."
Tu Yao said softly, "...the regulator."
She repeated, "She just looks like a regulator."
...In other words, behind Chu Man is a mastermind who instructed her to take away the four children of the Jiang family eighteen years ago.
Even more so, he was the mastermind behind that shipwreck incident back then.
Upon hearing this, Cheng Sangsang quickly said, "Tu Xiaomao, do you mean that someone is instigating Chu Man behind this?"
"But... who is the mastermind behind this?"
Tu Yao's eyes flickered, then she fell silent.
Jiang Peng suffered a mental breakdown and revealed the strange phenomena that occurred during the shipwreck years ago; she had imagined this before.
There are people like her who help her brothers restore their luck, and there are also people like Bai Chumeng who steal other people's luck.
Could there be an existence even more powerful than Bai Chumeng who, in order to seize the destiny, harmed Jiang Fengchun's family?
Now...she was almost certain...
So Chu Man back then is Bai Chumeng now...
Could it be that the person who instructed them was the same person?
If so, how should she tell her family and friends?
...at least make them realize that there is a specific, identifiable adversary.
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