Shen Youling had thought she had grown accustod to it, that she could face these kinds of predicants. However, when Lin Tang and Lee Encai stared at her with such baffled expressions, she was still at a complete loss. The look of pity in Lee Encai's eyes made her skin crawl.
"Sigh!" Lee Encai sighed. "The Shen Family has gone too far! Kicking you out is one thing, but to not even give you a cent? Forcing you to live in such a wretched place with a crooked landlord, having to borrow money just to get by…"
Lin Tang nodded in solemn agreent. "Honey, you've suffered."
Shen Youling was speechless.
Her classmate, Feng Nailin, also felt rather embarrassed. After all, he had lent her the money, but it hadn't even been a month before he ca scrambling back in such a panic to collect. It seed quite petty.
But what if Shen Youling had really died? Then the money would have gone down the drain. It's better to have it safely in hand. I have my own difficulties, after all.
"You're Shen Youling's husband?" he asked, looking at Lin Tang with imnse disappointnt. He'd heard she had married so country bumpkin, but he hadn't quite believed it. To think it was actually true!
What was she thinking…? Even I would have been a much better choice than him, right? Feng Nailin thought bitterly.
"Lin Tang, do you have any money on your card? Could you help pay him back?" Shen Youling whispered. They had gone to separate banks to get their cards replaced, so she had no idea how much money he had.
Lee Encai, on the other hand, knew perfectly well, having personally transferred tens of millions to him.
"Why say 'help'? Isn't my money your money?" Lin Tang said nonchalantly. To him, money was just a string of numbers. He could easily toss around a billion or two without a second thought. "How much does my wife owe you? I'll transfer it right now."
His tone was perfectly normal, but it grated on Feng Nailin's ears.
You goddamn country pauper, could you stop acting like money is no object? If you were really rich, you wouldn't have let your wife suffer so much, even letting part of her beautiful face get ruined. You're pathetic!
"Two thousand," Feng Nailin said, his tone stiff.
"How much?" Lee Encai exclaid in astonishnt. She thought it would be a much larger sum. Just for that, he was this desperate? On second thought, it made sense. If she had borrowed a significant amount, Shen Youling wouldn't be renting a room in a place like this.
"Is two thousand yuan not money?" Feng Nailin's face flushed.
"Ahem, that's not what I ant," Lee Encai said, shrinking back.
Shen Youling also hurried to apologize and thank him again. Two thousand might not seem like much, but it had saved her from a desperate situation. She had asked several classmates for help, but they had all politely refused before she could even ntion an amount. If it weren't for Feng Nailin, she wouldn't have even been able to afford a al or a place to stay for the night. Her gratitude was sincere.
Just then, a mother and daughter stord over, their faces contorted with fury.
"Well, well, Feng Nailin! So you sneak out to cheat with a prostitute while my back is turned! I've caught you red-handed, haven't I?"
"You shaless hussy! How dare you seduce my son-in-law? I'll beat you to death!"
As they shouted, one of them began frantically scratching at Shen Youling while the other shoved a phone in her face, snapping pictures.
"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing? It's a misunderstanding! She's my classmate!" Feng Nailin, montarily stunned, quickly tried to pull them away.
"So she's an old fla, a mistress? That's even worse! Everyone, look! We're catching a mistress in the act!" they shrieked at the top of their lungs, attracting a crowd.
As it happened, Shen Youling's unscrupulous landlord and his family were just leaving the residential complex. When they heard the commotion, it all clicked into place for them. So that's the kind of business she was in. No wonder she had that dark scar on her face; it was probably from the wife of so other man she was with, who had burned or branded her.
Tsk, tsk, how shaless! The landlord's husband was filled with regret. If I'd known she was so open-minded, I would have tried to get a taste myself. Even his son, young as he was, was full of lecherous regret. They pushed closer to watch the drama, eager to chi in with jeers and sarcastic remarks.
Lin Tang stepped in front of Shen Youling, shielding her from harm. "Stop this nonsense," he said. "He simply lent my wife so money, and we're paying him back now."
"Pah! How dare you accuse us of making trouble?" the younger woman spat. "A piece of trash like you managed to get a wife? I get it now, you're one of her clients, aren't you? Trying to cover for her… Look, he's getting nervous! See how nervous he is!"
Lin Tang's hands clenched into fists. He turned to Shen Youling. "Can I hit them?"
Shen Youling instinctively shook her head. "Don't fight!" Although the won were being completely unreasonable, they were still Feng Nailin's wife and mother-in-law. She had to consider his feelings.
"What, you want to hit soone? Just you try and touch !"
"Help, he's going to hit us! The mistress dares to attack the real wife! Is there any justice in this world?"
The landlord and his family raised their phones to record, righteously declaring that they would serve as witnesses.
Shen Youling's head throbbed. How did things escalate to this?
Lee Encai whispered, "Maybe we shouldn't hold Lin Tang back. Sotis, fists are the only way to solve a problem."
"I refuse to believe that ordinary people can't solve anything!" Shen Youling said stubbornly. Then, she decisively called the police.
When the authorities arrived and learned the dispute involved accusations of prostitution, they brought everyone down to the station for investigation.
In the end, the truth ca out. It was all a misunderstanding.
"This lady is the Young Miss of the Shen Family," an officer explained. "And the one beside her is the daughter of the Li Family. She's worth many billions. How could she possibly be in that line of work, let alone a mistress?"
"Ah… this…" Feng Nailin's wife and mother-in-law were dumbstruck. The landlord's family, who had co specifically to act as witnesses, were equally stunned.
That wealthy? Yet she rented their dilapidated apartnt and endured so much humiliation? Is she… insane? Besides, their clothes were filthy and torn; they looked like holess refugees. Since when did the rich develop such tastes?
Feng Nailin clutched his head in agony, sighing deeply. His wife, though clearly in the wrong, remained aggressive. "Why didn't you say so earlier? Were you deliberately toying with ?"
"Did you ever give a chance to speak?"
"So now you're blaming ? Fine, it's my fault! My biggest mistake was marrying you. Now that you have such rich classmates, why would you even look at anymore? Let's just get a divorce!"
"Divorce it is! I've had enough of you!" Feng Nailin roared. If he wasn't so afraid of his wife constantly checking his accounts and demanding to know where that two thousand yuan went before descending into a hysterical fight, he wouldn't have rushed over to collect the debt the mont he heard Shen Youling might be dead.
"I graduated from a prestigious university… How did my life turn into this?" Feng Nailin's eyes grew red.
Lin Tang's mouth twitched. Is this the ordinary life of an ordinary man? Why does it feel even more terrifying than my battle with that giant serpent? Thank goodness I'm a cultivator, otherwise…
The officers were also exhausted. After another round of diation, they managed to get Feng Nailin and his wife to stop fighting.
After they left the station, Feng Nailin said, "Shuzhen, you should apologize."
His wife, Liang Shuzhen, exploded again. "Why should I apologize? How was I supposed to know she was that rich but still needed to borrow money from you? She's the one who's acting strange, you can't bla for this!"
Initially, the landlord's family had been shuffling their feet, wanting to swallow their pride and apologize to Shen Youling. Seeing this, they stopped.
Anyway, this woman is a total pushover. She probably won't retaliate, so let's just forget it.
"Let's go, let's go."
Lin Tang watched their retreating backs and gave a cold sneer. If they had sincerely apologized and returned the security deposit, he might have considered reversing the spell he had secretly cast on them. But even at this point, they remained stubbornly unrepentant. It would serve them right to go ho and fall gravely ill. Of course, Lin Tang wouldn't kill them, but losing their wealth and suffering for it was inevitable. If not for the fact that Feng Nailin had provided help in a ti of need, Lin Tang wouldn't have minded making Liang Shuzhen and her mother mute for a year just for their grating voices.
"Shen Youling, I'm really sorry about that," Feng Nailin said.
"It's alright. It's good that the misunderstanding is cleared up."
"Yeah… Well, we'll keep in touch…"
It's highly unlikely we'll ever speak again, Feng Nailin thought.
Just then, his phone rang. It was a few old classmates who had arranged a get-together, asking when he would arrive.
"I just ran into so trouble. I don't think I'll make it. We can have a proper drink so other ti." Feng Nailin really wasn't in the mood.
But the person on the other end insisted. When they heard that Shen Youling was actually there with him, they all started howling over the phone, begging her to grace them with her presence. They added that a lot of their old female classmates would be there too.
Shen Youling didn't really want to go either, but when she heard that Shang Yuenong was going to be among them…
"Hm?" Lin Tang's ears perked up. A smile spread across his face. "Then we have to go! Can we bring family?"
Evidently, Feng Nailin's close friends were also from ordinary backgrounds. Their information was outdated. They hadn't heard the rumors that Lin Tang had been crippled and faced a powerful enemy, and had likely perished along with Shen Youling. In fact, they didn't even know who Lin Tang was. Hearing that Shen Youling was married and her husband was with her made them feel a little wistful, but they put on a magnanimous front, assuming Lin Tang was so young master from a family of equal standing.
"Of course you're welco, as long as you don't mind that our gathering spot isn't very fancy!"
Seeing that Lin Tang could go as family, Liang Shuzhen started clamoring to go along as well.
"Why are you going? Won't that be awkward?" Feng Nailin hissed.
"They're all bringing their partners, so why can't you bring ? What, are you ashad of ? You want a divorce, is that it?"
"You…"
In the end, Feng Nailin gave in. His mother-in-law, at least, had the decency to feel embarrassed and slunk away.
"Uh, you're going too?" Liang Shuzhen looked at Lee Encai with a puzzled expression, unable to figure out her relationship with Lin Tang and his wife.
Lee Encai just chuckled, disdaining to even reply. She certainly wasn't going to be left alone, not with Yan Luoyang still out there. Wherever Lin Tang went, she would go.
She was about to ask Shen Youling if she wanted to change her clothes first. Then again… isn't it far more interesting for them to show up dressed as they are? With that, she simply smiled and kept her thoughts to herself.
anwhile, Feng Nailin's close classmates were ecstatic, even knowing that Shen Youling was married. To be able to invite the most brilliant jewel of their university days to a gathering was a huge boost to their egos, wasn't it? Unable to hide their glee, they unmuted the long-dormant university class group chat and started hyping up the event, calling for more people to co and dropping Shen Youling's na.
The next mont, a series of question marks flooded the chat.
"Isn't Shen Youling already dead?"
"What??"
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