"You what?" yelled general Sun in surprise. His wife nudged him sharply with her elbow to shut him up lest he said something offensive.
No one quit their high paying, high ranking official job without at least a slight bit of bad blood between them and the person in charge. And in this case it was the emperor, who was actually prime minister Bai's brother in law.
Prime minister Bai was someone who valued family ties above all else, and above family ties came his wife and daughter. With the emperor's direct connection to his wife, there must have been something extremely unbearable for prime minister Bai to have quit.
Or, the emperor must've done something completely unjustified. Perhaps even hurt prime minister Bai.
"Are you alright?" asked Mama Sun. She was concerned that prime minister Bai and Bai Jingfei were running away from something scary.
