Only extreme pretense can prevent those powerful people from overstepping their bounds.
Bai Ze was stabbed in the back by his partner and chased by a loan shark. If you want to change your destiny, you can only break their rules. Greed, fear, and pursuit of strength are their weaknesses. To deal with ordinary people, you need to use high profits or the threat of violence; to deal with the powerful, you need to use unfathomable knowledge and rules beyond their cognitive scope.