On How To Defeat Dr. Qing Leng Chapter 65

Chapter 65 Chapter 65 Injustice

No one moved, and Pei Yan took Wen Yelan behind him.He glanced at Fan Qingzhi in the corner, then looked at Bai Yu: “Waiting for us?”

“So be it.” Bai Yu smiled, “I knew you would find this place sooner or later. I just didn’t expect it to be so soon.” He looked at Wen Yelan, “Xiaolan, you look good.”

Wen Yelan did not reply to his words: “Why did you arrest her?”

Bai Yu seemed to have expected that he would ask this. She leaned back slightly and leaned on the back of the old chair, making a squeaking sound.”It’s… just to vent your anger.” Bai Yu said calmly, “She hurt you so much before and almost destroyed you. She has to pay a price.”

“Is it your turn?” Pei Yan’s voice sounded from Wen Yelan’s side with a cold sneer.

Wen Yelan glanced sideways at Pei Yan.Pei Yan blinked and swallowed the next words.

When Bai Yu saw their interaction, his eyes darkened again and again, and his eyes fell on Wen Yelan.”I heard that Mr. Pei has been digging deep for someone recently. I know it’s you who wants to meet him. It just so happens that I have the person here. It can also be considered as returning the property to its original owner, saving you all the effort.” He paused and said, “Do you like the gift?”

Wen Yelan frowned.He didn’t like that.

“Let her speak.” He asked directly without answering Bai Yu’s words.

Bai Yu was silent for a moment, then tapped his fingers twice on the worn wooden table.

An inconspicuous small door behind him opened, and two tall men walked out. They walked to Fan Qingzhi and roughly took out the rag stuffed in her mouth.

Wen Yelan looked at this scene with a hint of surprise in his eyes.He didn’t expect that besides Bai Yu, there were other people hiding here.

Bai Yu saw the look in his eyes, and the bitter curve at the corner of his mouth deepened, and he laughed at himself a little tiredly: “You must always have some backup options to defend yourself. I have seen what Mr. Pei can do.” He still said this to Wen Yelan.

Wen Yelan ignored the sarcasm in his words and turned to Fan Qingzhi, who was finally able to speak out.

“Ugh…cough…” The gag strip was suddenly taken out, and Fan Qingzhi coughed violently, with tears streaming down his face.She raised her swollen eyes in panic, and her vision was blurred on Wen Yelan. She immediately seemed to have grasped the last straw and cried out: “Wen… Dr. Wen! Yelan! Save me… Please help me! He is a madman! He will really kill me! He will kill me!!”

Her voice was hoarse and broken, echoing in the small space, making people’s eardrums hurt.His body was shaking violently, and there were bloodstains where his hands and feet were bound.

Wen Yelan just looked at her quietly, showing neither pity nor pleasure.He waited until Fan Qingzhi’s cries gradually weakened due to exhaustion and lack of response, leaving only uncontrollable sobbing, and then he spoke in a low voice, “Are you done?”

Fan Qingzhi choked on his calm words and raised her head blankly, her face stained with dirt and tears.

“I did it to you,” Wen Yelan continued, with a smooth tone, “from beginning to end, tell me clearly.”

His gaze was like water under the ice, cold and penetrating. Fan Qingzhi shuddered involuntarily under the gaze.She originally wanted to cry and beg, but now her desire to perform seemed to be pegged by those eyes.She knew that the man in front of her was not here to hear her cry miserably, he was here to get answers.

The instinct to survive overcame everything else.Fan Qingzhi swallowed her rust-smelling saliva, curled up, and began to explain in a very fast and chaotic manner: “I said…I said it all! In the beginning…it was me at the beginning! No one ordered me! I just…I just can’t stand you!” Strong unwillingness and hatred filled her eyes, “Why…why did everything change when you came here? Obviously…it was obviously not like this in the beginning!”

She was intermittently and confused, from the initial slight exclusion and spreading rumors, to later deliberately delaying the approval required for his project, stealing his unpublished preliminary data ideas, and then how to use the idiot Zhao Hua’s favor for her to go through the back door.

How to secretly take those blurry photos later, she originally wanted to keep them as a handle or find an opportunity to blackmail them privately, but she was tempted by money and sold them to Bai Yu. It turned out that Bai Yu did not take revenge on Wen Yelan as harshly as she expected, so she chose to make a desperate move at the celebration banquet.

“I thought… I thought that would destroy you! It would also embarrass Pei Yan! You should be as ruined as me!” Fan Qingzhi said at the end, her voice became sharp, and then it faded away, leaving only endless fear, “I didn’t know… I didn’t know it would turn out like this… I didn’t know he would find me… I really didn’t know he would be so scary…”

Wen Yelan listened and knitted her brows tightly together.Some of those details he knew, and some were completely unexpected.He wasn’t so naive that he didn’t know the sinister nature of people’s hearts, but the fact that such long-lasting malice spread from a colleague who was once…a decent colleague on the surface still gave him a deep chill.

When Fan Qingzhi started crying again because of fear, Wen Yelan said, “Why?”

Fan Qingzhi’s sobs stopped for a moment.

Wen Yelan looked at her with doubts in his eyes, “I remember, when I first entered the institute, you… were not like this. At that time, I was not familiar with many processes, and the data format was different from the one used in the previous school. You even took the initiative to help me a few times.”

That was a long time ago. Fan Qingzhi at that time was capable, professional and friendly.

Fan Qingzhi was stunned, as if she didn’t expect that he would remember it so clearly.The expression on her face froze for a moment, and then an even weirder emotion came over her.She suddenly laughed, the laughter was hoarse and unpleasant, full of irony and sadness.

“Help you? Haha…hahahaha…” She laughed so hard that tears came out, “Wen Yelan, what do you know! You don’t know anything at all!”

She suddenly stopped laughing and stared at Wen Yelan with her bloodshot eyes, “Yes! I helped you! Because at that time, I thought we were the same! We both had no background and no backing. We relied on our pitiful education and skills to struggle in this place that eats people without spitting out their bones, thinking that one day we can make it through! I thought… I thought at least I would have a companion!”

Her voice suddenly rose, and trembled because of her weakness: “But what about you? What did you do? One year! Just one year! Your projects passed one after another, and the papers were published one after another. Even the dean, those old guys who have higher lofty ideals, began to look at you differently! The attention, my opportunities, my honors that should have belonged to me… were all taken away by you! You are like a monster that appeared out of nowhere, and you easily got things that others might not get even with all their efforts! You still ask me why?!”

Wen Yelan was shocked by the strong accusation in her words, “I didn’t rob…”

“You have!” Fan Qingzhi interrupted him sharply, completely losing control of her emotions. “You stood there and took away all the light without doing anything! Do you know that a girl, a girl with no background, has to climb to a decent position in this circle?How much effort do I need to make?How many times do I need to endure overt and covert scrutiny, testing, and rejection?It took me five years to get a foothold!But once you came, it only took one year to make me look like a joke!”

She cried and vented: “Yes, you didn’t mean to grab it. You may not even notice me at all! But your existence itself is the greatest denial and humiliation to me! Why?! Why can you get everything so easily? And I, I have to calculate everything, make every move, and end up like this?! I am not willing to accept it! I hate you! I hate all of you!!”

The hoarse roar collided in the small space, and finally turned into a howl of collapse.Fan Qingzhi seemed to have had all her strength drained away, and collapsed to the ground, leaving only unconscious twitches and desperate cries.

There was dead silence in the cubicle.There was only Fan Qingzhi’s uncontrollable crying.

Pei Yan’s face was so gloomy that he could drip water, and the hands hanging by his sides were clenched until the knuckles turned white.

He stared at Fan Qingzhi with cold eyes. Others didn’t know it, but he could see how much effort Ye Lan had put in in private. He wanted to say something, wanted to do something, but he caught a glimpse of Wen Yelan’s profile from the corner of his eye and held back.

Bai Yu was still sitting on the chair, even a little leisurely, looking at Wen Yelan deeply, observing his reaction.

Wen Yelan stood there without moving for a long time.Fan Qingzhi’s words were like a rusty dull knife, tugging at him over and over again.He tried to understand that those intense emotions, those unfamiliar hatreds, were so unfamiliar and difficult to replace for him.

This world is much more complex and chaotic.

He suddenly took two steps forward, and then slowly squatted down under the slightly nervous gaze of Pei Yan and Bai Yu’s slightly raised eyebrows.

Fan Qingzhi’s crying stopped, and her red and swollen eyes looked at Wen Yelan who was close at hand through the mist of tears.

Wen Yelan’s eyes were calm, without condescending judgment or false sympathy.

“Your efforts, your situation, your unfairness,” Wen Yelan nodded gently, “I admit that I may not understand and cannot imagine everything.”

Fan Qingzhi was stunned, not expecting him to say that.

“But,” Wen Yelan continued, without deliberately emphasizing his tone, “this is not the reason for you to point the knife at me.”

“I have no obligation to be responsible for your predicament, and I have no obligation to stop in my tracks just to make you feel fair.” He paused, his eyes clear.

“The work of the institute, the results of the project, the attention and honors you value, they are not a game where you lose and I win. I do my research, and you go your own way. My existence may have changed the frame of reference around you, but it has not, and should not, deprive you of the possibility of moving forward.”

“Is it really me that you hate?” Wen Yelan looked straight into her eyes, “Or do you hate yourself who always seems to have little luck no matter how hard you try? Hate this system that is indeed unfair? Hate those realities that you can’t understand but can’t change?”

Fan Qingzhi opened her mouth to retort, to scream, to say “it doesn’t hurt when you stand and talk”, but under the gaze of those eyes that were too clear and could reflect her own distorted shadow, all the words were stuck in her throat.

Wen Yelan stared at Fan Qingzhi’s pale face: “When you complained about unfair rules and were jealous of others, you yourself have become the one who uses more unfair and dirty methods to break the rules. This will not solve any of your problems, Fan Qingzhi, it will only drag you into a deeper quagmire, just like now.”

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The author has something to say: Alas, there must be something hateful about poor people.

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