—— At that point, he still believed it was his own mother making unreasonable trouble!
Mrs. Liu was desperate at the time, and it wasn't until later that the elderly lady who had initially referred Xu Jie to work at her son's company came up with a solution—she had her son fire Xu Jie on the grounds of betraying company secrets. From then on, Xu Jie's life plunged from heaven to hell. He repeatedly faced setbacks when looking for work. Within a month, his girlfriend grew increasingly distant from him and eventually moved on to someone better, leaving him behind.
At this juncture, having freed themselves from the clutches of a scheming White Lotus, Lin Xiaoguai and others also believed that the matter was settled, and that Mrs. Liu and Xu Jie could now return to normal life.
