Lu Sihan did not allow the bitter, burning taste of her first public defeat to linger in her mind.
She knew that trying to destroy Chen Jue's musical talent directly was no longer a viable strategy—the public and the media were simply too enamored by the "Backstage Phantom" miracle.
To take down a rapidly rising empire like the Chen family, she needed to strike at their structural, financial foundation. She needed to shatter their pristine corporate reputation and completely tank their market valuation overnight.
Through a middleman operating on an encrypted dark-web network, Lu Sihan located the perfect weapon for her plan: a desperate, heavily indebted woman named Bai Jin.
Bai Jin owed millions of dollars to underground loan sharks who were actively threatening her life.
