SWG Chapter 75

Chapter 75

Back then…

Such a distant phrase, so distant that Lin Simu was dazed for a moment upon hearing it. She wanted to continue her mockery, but her whole body ached, and she didn’t want to provoke the person in front of her any further.

She wasn’t stupid. After all these years, she could tell whether she had kicked a random piece of wood or a steel plate. After all, not many people could calmly take out a cigarette and act so arrogant in front of the police after they arrived. The police weren’t urging Ruan Shengyi but instead urging her.

Not to mention, this person accurately grasped the timing of the Lin family’s upheaval. Today, on the very day the change of leadership in the group was finalized, she immediately took action to “deal with” her. It was impossible for there to be no one behind this. Someone must have arranged everything long ago.

Heh, don’t really think of her as an ignorant rich second generation.

But she couldn’t understand where this person, who in her impression was just a bartender, got her influence and charm from.

What did she have to rely on? What gave her the ability to make the person she had painstakingly pursued for years become wholeheartedly devoted to her in just a few months? What gave her the right?

Lin Simu gritted her teeth and chuckled, saying, “I would have forgotten if you hadn’t mentioned back then.”

She leaned back in her chair. “Why ask about that? Do you want to win against me from back then? Heh, you’re thinking too much…”

“You’re the one thinking too much,” Ruan Shengyi interrupted her. “I’ll say it again, Xiao Wenyu is an independent person. She has her own judgment and thoughts. This so-called winning or losing turns her into an accessory, but she’s not. She’s excellent, and you don’t deserve to describe her like that.”

“I’m asking only because I want to know her past because her past, like her present, is equally worthy of cherishing.”

Lin Simu: …

She scoffed, “You’re really putting on an act. How laughable.”

“I understand you because your brain is a binary switch. Fine, then I won’t ask. A binary switch brain probably can’t store anything anyway. It would be a waste of time to ask.”

With that, the Ruan boss simply leaned back in her chair leisurely, closed her eyes for a nap, and slowly said, “I’ve already done what I wanted to do, using my favorite way to avenge her a little before you scram. You don’t know how much pain you left behind, but it doesn’t matter. She doesn’t remember, and I don’t want to remember either.”

“As for me, I just want to make it so you can’t even voice your suffering.”

Lin Simu suddenly spoke, “She used to be just a good student, very well-behaved, not competitive, only revealing a bit of age-inappropriate naivety when she got her hands on her camera.”

“I pursued her for a long time until she decided to return to Chuncheng before she agreed to be with me.”

Lin Simu laughed heartily and said, “Thinking about it now, I just wanted to ruin the so-called pure girl. I didn’t expect my mom to take a liking to her. What kind of trash are you all? All garbage, I spit on you.”

“Trash,” Ruan Shengyi opened her eyes slightly and looked at her, her eyes cold. “You really can’t expect an ivory tusk to come out of a dog’s mouth.”

“Whether it’s an ivory tusk or a dog’s tooth, it doesn’t matter. Ruan boss, I will absolutely not issue a letter of understanding. This kind of gang fight should get you ten or eight days in jail, right? Heh…”

Lin Simu wasn’t afraid at all, staring at the other person with the same cold gaze.

The police returned, and upon entering, they heard someone speaking boastfully, unable to help but laugh. “It seems you haven’t communicated well with your family. However, the person who came to explain the situation gave you a chance to talk to your family on the phone. Here, it’s your sister.”

The police handed over the police station’s landline phone, which was already on a call. The sound from the receiver was loud, with little privacy. Lin Siyu’s excited voice could be heard clearly by everyone present.

She said in a high-pitched voice, “I just called Sister-in-law and lied to her, saying I was locked up. She seemed a little moved. If she comes to pick you up later, you have to behave well.”

“Sis! Our family is depending on Sister-in-law now! Just soften your stance and settle down, okay?”

Every word was like a rattan cane fiercely whipping her face, turning Lin Simu’s face red and white, with even a few blood vessel imprints appearing. She clenched her teeth so hard that her molars were trembling, and the hand holding the phone seemed ready to explode.

Ruan Shengyi sat on the opposite corner, watching the clown put on an act with a smile.

She didn’t even need to speak. Just showing her leisurely appearance was enough to break the other person down to the extreme.

Oh, how satisfying.

The police raised a pen and knocked her on the head impatiently, saying, “You have to sign a guarantee as well! You’re all adults. Can’t you sit down and talk things out? This time, there’s a letter of understanding from the Lin family. What about next time?”

Ruan Shengyi hugged her head and apologized, “I know, officer, I’ll sign the guarantee.”

But the other person’s eyes were bloodshot as she roared, “I didn’t agree. I don’t understand. Who allowed this?!”

The police were used to it and didn’t find it strange. “I told you, you didn’t negotiate with your family. Of course, someone from your family issued a letter of understanding immediately and even stamped it with the Lin Corporation’s seal.”

“Miss Lin, times are different now. Your Lin family has been powerful for twenty years, but it’s coming to an end. The person who issued the letter of understanding asked us to detain you for a few more days under the name of an accessory to an economic crime. You’re welcome.”

So, on the other side, there was only struggling and arguing. The person who repeatedly disturbed their peaceful life would eventually fall into the dust because of these events, never to rise again. Of course, all of this was ultimately her own fault. After all, the final charge was economic crime.

This wasn’t a result that Ruan Shengyi could orchestrate.

Ruan Shengyi scratched her head. “Then, then can I leave?”

The police rolled their eyes at her. “Acting innocent after getting an advantage. I thought you hadn’t come here in the past two years because you finally weren’t planning to treat the police station as a dormitory. So you were pretending. I’m telling you, if you make Xiao Yichen sick or something, I’ll lock you up in jail for life.”

The person who acted innocent after getting an advantage giggled foolishly. “I always have to secretly satisfy my little thoughts when I can still do it. Then I’m really leaving. It’ll be hard to get a taxi if I stay any longer. I still have to hurry back. Today is the first snow.”

The police looked at her strangely. “What taxi? Someone’s picking you up.”

“Huh? Didn’t I tell my teacher not to have her and Sister Yichen come?”

The police laughed loudly. “Oh, oh, Yichen said that you’ve become a big idiot after falling in love. That’s really true.”

Ruan Shengyi instantly understood everything, and her hands and feet turned cold. “You told her? Now?”

But the woman’s familiar voice had already come from outside the door. Her footsteps carried a bit of anxiety and urgency as she asked in a low voice, “Is it this room?”

Presumably, after receiving an affirmative answer, the footsteps paused for a moment and then turned around, becoming denser, closer, and faster, as if stepping on the tip of Ruan Shengyi’s heart, urging her heartbeat to quicken as well. Her gaze was fixed on the door.

Soon, a figure wearing a long white down jacket appeared at the door. Her face was a bit red from the cold, and her long brown hair was scattered. But in the warm room, she felt a bit hot, so the down jacket was open, revealing a somewhat tight-fitting knitted long dress underneath.

Xiao Wenyu hadn’t planned to go out today and didn’t expect to see anyone here. She just went out in her knitted long dress. If you looked closely, you could see the slight curve of her belly, so when she looked past Ruan Shengyi and saw the other person staring intently at her, her breath hitched for a moment.

Lin Simu? Not Lin Siyu?

So, Lin Siyu really lied to her?

Fortunately, she never intended to take Lin Siyu away.

At that time, after Lin Siyu finished those three sentences, she wanted to hang up the phone, but Xie Yu suddenly rushed over and knocked on her door, so she hung up the phone after a few seconds.

Then Xie Yu told her that her silly boss had been detained for fighting with someone.

In that instant, the blood rushed to her head, and she almost thought Ruan Shengyi had beaten up Lin Siyu. But after calming down, she realized that her boss couldn’t possibly do something so stupid.

She had a way to solve it, and it was good to use it now.

And then, it was now.

Xiao Wenyu quickly averted her gaze and walked to a stop in front of Ruan Shengyi, breathing slightly.

The woman didn’t seem to expect her to come either. She was so anxious that she kept tugging at her hair, her tongue stumbling over her words as she said in a stuttering tone, “You, why did you come? The ice outside is so thick. What if something happened to you? You…you…”

*Smack.*

The crisp sound of a slap instantly silenced the noisy meeting room.

Ruan Shengyi blinked slowly, touching her cheek in disbelief, gradually, with hardly any breath left to exhale.

The first to react was Lin Simu. Although she was being held by the police who were about to take her to another detention center, she was laughing so hard that she was leaning back and forth, mocking fiercely, “See that, Ruan boss? I don’t even know your full name hahaha, but look, you said you would become her confidence. This is her confidence. The confidence to hit you? If I were you, I would immediately hit back. You’re capable yourself. Why do you care about her?”

No one paid attention to her.

The prison guard dragged Lin Simu away. As she passed by, Lin Simu lowered her eyes and stared at something unusual for a few moments, then sneered and said, “No wonder you two developed so quickly. You probably got together before the divorce, right? Hahaha, no wonder, no wonder…”

The madwoman’s laughter echoed throughout the hallway. Until it was completely quiet, the arm that had been held down tightly finally regained its freedom.

Her eyes red, she asked, “Why didn’t you let me curse back? Is this also me meddling too much, Xiao Wenyu?”

The person she questioned had tears welling up in her eyes, her own eyes red. “If you hit her and curse at her, then what? What about me? What about our future? A starving camel is still bigger than a horse. If the Lin family wants to mess with you, will you even be able to live? I’m just an ordinary person, a cowardly ordinary person. I can’t help you every time. I only have one chance!” Her voice trembled with the tremor of someone escaped a disaster, breaking people’s hearts.

Ruan Shengyi blinked. “I…” She didn’t know what to say because her face really hurt.

Xiao Wenyu turned her head to wipe away her tears and said, “Let’s go home. We’ll talk when we get back.”

They walked out of the meeting room one after another. The police officer who had been silently in the corner finally dared to breathe a sigh of relief and gently tapped the earpiece on his ear, saying in a trembling voice, “Yichen, did you hear that? Oh my god, someone can actually keep Chen’s student in check!”

“Oh my god, the sister who lost her temper is so handsome, boohoohoo, Yichen, do you know any other sisters like that? I want one too.”

In the earpiece, a woman’s voice was calm. “I’m already thirty-five. If you still want a sister, you’ll have to look for someone over forty. Are you sure?”

“Sure, sure. Or your sister? Your sister will do too.”

“…I think it’s more important for you to stay alive. Thank you for today, even though you weren’t the one who ultimately solved this matter.”

“…I haven’t liked the Lin family for a long time either. Do they really think they’re local overlords?”

“Mm-hmm, you’re right. I’m going to sleep and give my baby a perfect space to grow. Good night.”

“…” Damn it, she never wanted to talk to these people with partners again!

*

Outside the door, Xiao Wenyu held the other person’s hand as they stepped into the snow one after another.

Suddenly, an arm wrapped around her waist. The woman walked a few steps closer and hugged her waist, only showing her a side profile, but still silently offered some warm support.

Her breathing was ragged. Tonight’s Ruan boss was accidentally hit when she was beating someone and was listless, but at this moment, she was indeed so angry that she had turned into a pufferfish.

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