Chapter 152 - A Man Like Him?

Lu Mengjie was not entirely wrong with what she said. Things were never going to get easy when Bai Jingye was against his own family. To have his own family as his own enemies means that he was already put in a very difficult situation. He would only be lying to himself if he said that he never cared for them. He had good, precious memories with them. There was once a time when his mother was not bitchy and power-hungry. Where his father was not like a mindless doll played by the old man and when his brother was not yet a jerk. Maybe somewhere inside him, he hoped for such a day to return, where they all would be on good terms. But that was impossible. Of course, it was impossible now that things had already fallen this far.

"We never had a proper talk about your plans," she stated as she began walking towards him. She found it quite funny when she thought that she had been thinking of revenge for almost half a year and yet, she did nothing. She only sat and waited, obeying instructions that were given to her like the good girl she was. Who could blame her after what happened to her? She may have once wanted to lay low but not anymore… The wolf inside her was waking up from its deep slumber. This time, she was sharper, smarter than yesterday. She may have tried to avoid her problems back then and allowed others to help her through it but not anymore. 

Lu Mengjie sat on the couch opposite him. She turned her gaze at him and crossed her arms. "If we are going to go against your family then we must take them one by one. Starting from the easiest and the weakest."

Bai Jingye's lips were stretched into a thin line when he saw the way she was looking at him and when he heard her words. She meant business.

"You have to tell me your family's situation now, Jingye. The information you found out about them." She was not going to stop until she had that info.

The woman sitting in front of him was so different from the woman he first saw when she woke up from her coma. He sighed heavily at the thought that he would end up getting help from her. Wasn't that his objective back then when he found out that she was a member of the Lu family? He made his alliance with her through Tian Ruyi's help. That was his purpose. He wanted to avoid receiving a heavy blow from her family once they strike. He cast his eyes on the dessert he brought with him. Even eating the shortcake won't bring him back to a good mood anymore. "Where should I start?"

The side of her lips curled up as if she found his question funny. She crossed her legs together and rested her back against the cushion of the sofa. "Anywhere you want." Her only job at that moment was to listen, analyze and plot a scheme.

"My father," he finally began. Bai Jingye looked rather hesitant to continue but Lu Mengjie didn't rush him. They have all the time they need that day. "Let's start from him."

"I'm listening," she stated the obvious.

Once again, a sigh escaped from the man's lips. "I seriously don't know what kind of threat my grandfather has against him but he has been following his every order ever since my aunt, Bai Xiuying, was put in a coma. He has been going to places lately. I had my men follow him but they would always end up losing him. He would change cars a few times a day. It seems like he knew that I had men follow him."

"Then your father is not an idiot." She smiled at him. "Or did this plan come from your grandfather?"

"I don't know." If Bai Keran already knew about it, then shouldn't he be receiving a warning instead? Or did that old man just felt so confident that he would never find anything about his dirty works?

"So you're saying that you found nothing after all this time?" Lu Mengjie tried her best to suppress her tongue from cursing. And here she thought that Bai Jingye was smart enough to find his ways on things. Maybe his family was just his greatest weakness?

"I was only able to find the location of where grandfather is keeping his daughter," he replied.

Her eyes lit up when she heard his words. "Bai Xiuying?" Her uncle's ex-fiance.

"Yes. I have one of my men monitor the location. It is heavily guarded but according to him, it seems like Bai Xiuying is still in a coma," he explained. "It's the place my father would usually visit too."

"If it's like that then there must be something else in that place that your grandfather is using against your father?" She cupped her chin to think. If it was not that place then she was sure that they would be able to find out about whatever he was hiding from someone else if they were given a chance to enter the place. 

"I don't think so," Bai Jingye retorted. Would Bai Keran openly put his father's weakness out there? Especially close with his beloved daughter? "I don't think my grandfather will make such a mistake."

"He's not perfect, Jingye. He is only a human. Even if there's nothing in that place, we can still keep looking. There could be a possibility that your father was hiding another woman and that Bai Keran was able to find out about it. Not just another woman but another family?" She speculated. If that was the case, if his grandfather was using the woman he loved just to control him then wouldn't that be understandable instead?

"Another woman… another family…." He mumbled to himself. Bai Jingye ended up frowning at the thought that his father was having an affair. A man like him?