Endless Fall

231 Degrading Yourself and Still Trying to Shirk Responsibility

His actions made Su Tian’s expression ugly.

She suppressed the hatred in her eyes and wanted to gain his sympathy with a pitiful look. “Then why did you suddenly come over?”

Song Zhen said, “He Qi killed your lover. We’re here to see him.”

His unconcealed contemptuous gaze was as if he was looking at a bug in the gutter.

Su Tian clenched her fists.

She opened her mouth, but before she could explain, Lin Jiao said, “Miss Su, shall we settle our matter first.”

“Can you not interrupt me when I talk to him?”

“I’m here to solve a problem, not to listen to you talk about your own matters.”

Su Tian’s face turned red.

She clenched her fists and sat back down. Seeing that Gu Quan was also here, she didn’t plan to rip Lin Jiao off. She said, “If you pay 300,000, I will not press charges against Fang Yanwen.”

“Since you’re offering such an unreasonable amount of compensation, I can only hire a lawyer to talk to you.”

“300,000 yuan is unreasonable? People have to pay 30,000 yuan for a slap. You can ask them how she hit me.”

Lin Jiao looked straight into his eyes. “The police told me the details. It’s indeed wrong for her to hit you, but you’re not in the right either.”

“How am I not in the right?”

“Did you forget about having sex with her boyfriend so quickly? I think you really need to go to the hospital to check your brain.”

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Su Tian raised her voice. “Lin Jiao, stop slandering me!”

“I’m talking nonsense?” Lin Jiao sneered. “Did the police wrong you? Then I’ll get them to come over and you can explain to them what happened again.”

After Lin Jiao said that, the office instantly fell silent.

“200,000.” She did not dare to look at Gu Quan. She lowered her head and stared at the floor under her feet. “I don’t want to argue with you anymore. It’s boring.”

“I’ll pay sixty thousand at most. If you’re not willing, I’ll hire a lawyer to negotiate.”

“Sixty thousand?! Are you kidding me?”

“No.” Lin Jiao turned on the screen and looked at the time. “I’ll give you three minutes to consider.”

Su Tian knew very well that she was at a disadvantage, but she was also helpless.

“There’s no need to consider.” She gritted her teeth and swiped open the screen. She clicked on an online bank.

Lin Jiao scanned the QR code and transferred the money to her.

She went to the hall to explain the situation to the police. After signing a series of documents, she left with Fang Yanwen.

“Hey.” Fang Yanwen stopped by the entrance of the police station and said arrogantly, “Transfer another hundred thousand yuan to me.”

“Ask your mother for the money.”

“Transfer to me first. She’ll return it to you when the time comes.”

“No.” Lin Jiao didn’t want to care about her. She had already done her part. “Call her directly.”

“You are so annoying,” Fang Yanwen complained. Seeing that Lin Jiao was about to leave, she stopped her. “Wait a minute.”

“Anything else?”

“I don’t have a place to stay.” She had been living with Brother Dao ever since she resigned. Now that he was gone, she couldn’t go back.

“So?”

“Get Aunt and the others to help me find a house.”

“Why?” Lin Jiao sneered. “My father and Auntie Fang don’t owe you anything. How dare you make a request?”

“I’m her niece!”

“Why didn’t you take her as your auntie when you scolded her?”

Fang Yanwen’s face turned pale.

She straightened her back and said, “It’s all your fault that I became like this! You have to take responsibility!”

“You’re degrading yourself and you’re still trying to shirk responsibility?”

“Jiaojiao.” Seeing that they were arguing, Gu Quan frowned and stood beside her. “What’s wrong?”

“It’s fine.”

“I don’t care.” Fang Yanwen crossed her arms like a rich and arrogant lady. “You have to either give me the money or find me a house.”

“Do you want me to slap you?”

“Don’t you dare!”

Lin Jiao slapped her without hesitation and raised her eyebrows. “Don’t provoke me.”

Fang Yanwen pushed her messy hair aside and covered her burning face with her eyes wide open. “Do you believe that I’ll call the police right now?”

“Go ahead. I’ll sue you for extortion.”

“You… lunatic!”

“Tsk.” Lin Jiao turned around and left.

She stood by the roadside and was about to hail a taxi when Song Zhen approached in a BMW and asked them to get in.

“Quan, can you drive me back?” Su Tian ran over and stood outside the front passenger seat.

“No.” Gu Quan rejected her outright.

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He closed the car window and let Song Zhen drive. He turned to look at the backseat. “Jiaojiao, where are you going?”

“Sheng Heng.” Lin Jiao opened the call log and called Lin Hongyuan. “Dad, her matter has been settled.”

“How much did you give?”

“Sixty thousand.” She summarized the situation. “Don’t tell Auntie Fang about it lest she be angry.”

Lin Hongyuan was furious after hearing the whole story.

After scolding Fang Yanwen, he took a deep breath to adjust his emotions. “Forget it, find time to come back for a meal.”

Lin Jiao replied softly, “Got it.” She stopped thinking about those bad things and looked up, asking, “How many years will He Qi be sentenced to?”

“More than ten years.”

“Did you tell his family?”

“Yes.” Gu Quan had called just now. “It looks like he has been abandoned by the He family.”

They were afraid of the family business being affected, so they naturally would not care about He Qi anymore.

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Perhaps they would even cut ties with him.

Song Zhen shook his head and clicked his tongue. “He Qi has changed too much. I feel that there’s something wrong with his brain.”

“Well, he’s changed since he was hospitalized.”

“He was beaten up last time and was hospitalized, right? Do you think it was done by the two illegitimate sons of his father?”

“It’s possible.” Gu Quan lit a cigarette. “But it’s not just because of them that he became like this.”

Su Tian was also the reason.

He liked Su Tian too much and would kill someone for her.

Song Zhen sighed.

He stepped on the brakes at Sheng Heng’s door and finally said, “Sister Jiao, see you another day.”

Lin Jiao smiled and nodded. “Okay.”

She walked towards the hall with her back facing the sun. When her figure disappeared from his sight, Gu Quan had yet to retract his gaze.

“Brother Quan.” Song Zhen continued driving towards the Gu Corporation and asked in a low voice, “Do you still like her?”

Do I still like her?

During this period of time, Gu Quan had asked himself this question countless times, but the answer he got had never changed.

However, he could not change the current situation.

He tapped his cigarette. “She has a boyfriend.”

“You can get close to her first.” Song Zhen knew that he wouldn’t do anything to ruin people’s relationships. “Find an opportunity to win her back.”

“Will it work?”

“They haven’t been dating for long. I don’t think their relationship is that deep. You still have a chance of winning.”

Gu Quan remained silent.

He looked out the window at the scenes that flashed past, and his thoughts unknowingly drifted away. In the end, he did not give a response.