Only the beady-eyed Qiao Fei smelled something fishy. Even so, she hesitated. Her failure this time had taught her much. Dealing with Lady Zhao was no easy matter. She was surrounded by "the forces of evil." The other big bosses had no objections, so how could she stand against it alone? That would be suicide.
It was precisely because Qiao Fei was not brainless and that her "inflexibly just and fair" was only a mask, she was doomed to fail. Ironically, if she was not that person, she would not have even been able to be the President of the Discipline Inspection Department.
Being inflexibly just and fair towards people who were of no value, but bending the rules for those who would be of some use to her was how she functioned. Sadly, she had experienced the misfortune of underestimating Lady Zhao.
