Chapter 236: Ning Yao Became a Street Rat

Ning Jinli had no interest in staying to watch Ning Yao's disgrace, and she didn't care whether Ning Yao would really keep crawling onto the street; thus, just as Ning Yao had crawled out of the hotel entrance, she and five special operations team members quietly left through the back door.

Ning Yao was unaware of this, went out the door, and continued crawling.

The livestreamers immediately pointed their phone cameras at her.

Other onlookers also raised their phones to take photos.

Although Ning Yao kept her head down, she could still feel countless gazes converging on her from all around.

She felt like an ant crawling under the scorching sun, with someone using a magnifying glass to focus the sunlight into a point, concentrating the heat and baking her.

She once loved being the center of attention, but now, the same attention felt like her heart being sliced by Lingchi (death by a thousand cuts) (death by a thousand cuts) (death by a thousand cuts) (death by a thousand cuts).

She crawled out of the hotel doors, then slowly crawled down the steps.

Her palms and knees were scraped raw.

Large tears rolled down her cheeks.

In the crowd, some jeered, some laughed, after all it was the first time anyone had seen a delicately dressed, head-to-toe luxury-brand young rich beauty behaving this way.

However, as Ning Yao silently shed tears while painfully crawling to the curb, gradually some people felt pity for her.

People's hearts are made of flesh; though they came to watch the spectacle, seeing a pretty girl publicly humiliated to this extent was… increasingly hard to bear.

More and more people began urging Ning Yao to get up, not to keep crawling.

Also, more and more people blamed Ning Jinli, the victor of the match, for going too far.

Meanwhile, some who had inquired or searched online and figured out the relationship between Ning Yao and Ning Jinli speculated that this was Ning Jinli deliberately taking revenge.

"Sigh, they are clearly cousins, both from respectable wealthy families, yet they've come to this."

"It's not Ning Yao who's trying to seize the Ning family's assets, so why is Ning Jinli doing this to her?"

"Yeah, it's too ruthless..."

"The world of the wealthy is truly beyond us ordinary people."

"……"

The public opinion gradually shifted, contrary to Ning Yao's expectations.

She immediately began to scheme, using the passersby's sympathy and her own pitiable plight under everyone's gaze to turn the tables on Ning Jinli.

At the very least, it could give Ning Jinli a notorious reputation in Xinghan City for publicly insulting her own kin.

Just as over half of the onlookers began to favor Ning Yao, and she was preparing to play the victim and tearfully accuse Ning Jinli of bullying her—

A hum…

A harsh, screeching speaker current noise came from somewhere.

Then, from several directions, the sound of "hey hey hey" rang out one after another.

The crowd looked around.

Before anyone could tell where the sound was coming from, they heard someone shout through the loudspeaker: "Come on, come on, everyone pay attention—please listen to some of the bizarre remarks that Miss Ning Yao herself said earlier!"

Then the loudspeaker played the conversation between Ning Jinli and Ning Yao during their meal at the hotel.

Ning Jinli asked, "Are you so happy and proud to become a person of M Guo?"

Ning Yao replied, "Of course—who doesn't know that M Guo is the ideal country countless people worldwide aspire to, a thousand times better than your country!"

The loudspeaker's amplification effect was very noticeable.

This question and answer were heard clearly by everyone present.

Immediately, someone frowned.

That sentence praising M Guo while belittling the homeland, even calling the homeland "your country," sounded awkward no matter how you listened.

The person who played this conversation over the loudspeaker also thoughtfully told the crowd that the questioner was Ning Jinli and the responder was Ning Yao, after all not everyone in the crowd could recognize their voices.

Ning Yao was dazed.

How could the content of her conversation with Ning Jinli during the meal suddenly pop up?

What is going on!

She hastily stood up, lifted her head, and looked around for the source of the sound.

"I didn't expect Miss Ning Yao to admire M Guo so much?" a passerby sneered at her, "And you still call your own country 'your country,' looking down on your homeland—why are you still speaking Chinese?"

Many also cast her contemptuous glances and hissed at her.

"No… it's not like that!" Ning Yao blurted out in panic.

But the next second.

The loudspeaker then blared her shouting voice.

"Ning Jinli! You wait for me!"

"My great M Guo will one day crush your country!"

"By then, you all will become beggars and vagrants, forced to beg for aid from us M Guo people!"

These words were exactly what she had said when Ning Jinli had retorted her to the point of breaking down.

At this moment, they were also broadcast over the loudspeaker.

In an instant, they provoked the anger of the crowd.

Such remarks would make any normal person in the country angry.

Countless gazes stabbed her like knives.

The surging anger made her tremble with fear.

Many people directly cursed:

"What the hell! People like you would definitely have been traitors, lackeys, and national sellouts in the past!"

"Damn! I just felt sorry for you seeing you crawl on the ground, but now you hope our country gets crushed by M Guo? And you want us to become beggars and vagrants? Bah!"

"If I heard right, you call yourself an M Guo person? You don't even qualify—you're just a fawning foreign dog! Serving M Guo as a dog while barking domestically—get lost!"

"……"

The onlookers swarmed and attacked her, scolding Ning Yao so much she wished she could find a crack in the ground to hide in.

Such a sudden situation was completely beyond her expectation.

In her panic, she could only make excuses, saying, "I didn't say those things! I… I don't know where those words came from! Right! Someone is framing me! They used AI to fake my voice! Don't believe them!"

"Cough cough!" a voice came from the loudspeaker again, "Sorry, Miss Ning Yao, these are clips taken by Li from our hotel's surveillance footage. Our manager said that if Miss Ning Yao refuses to back down, we don't mind releasing the full surveillance footage for everyone to see."

As soon as those words were spoken, they directly tore apart Ning Yao's excuses.

It turned out that the person holding the loudspeaker and playing the audio was a subordinate of the hotel manager.

The hotel manager had been slapped by Ning Jinli, losing face, and chose this way to retaliate.

Ning Yao's mind went blank; she staggered backward a few steps, almost falling.

The hotel manager's subordinate, following the manager's order to add fuel to the fire, also played Ning Yao's mocking remarks to the crowd, cheering on the soldier brothers and even licking the boots of M Guo soldiers, and so on.

This caused the onlookers' anger to flare to its peak.

Someone threw a half-drunk milk tea, which hit Ning Yao on the head.

The milk tea drenched her face.

"Get out of our country! Get out!"

The crowd cursed while throwing whatever they could grab at Ning Yao.

Things like packaging boxes, bags, cigarette packs and lighters, eggs and vegetables just bought from the supermarket… and even occasionally a few slippers flew through the air.

Ning Yao became a street rat that everyone shouted at and beat.

Her mind completely crashed, leaving her helpless and dazed in place.

Ten members of the hotel's raptor special forces team ran out, surrounded her protectively, and escorted her into a vehicle.

Although they didn't particularly like Ning Yao either, they were ordered to pick her up, and if anything happened to her, they wouldn't be able to answer for it.

Afterwards, several black business vehicles sped away.

Only then did the angry onlookers gradually disperse, and the area in front of the hotel entrance finally returned to normal.

The next morning.

A certain unknown remote small airport in M Guo.

In the sky, a private plane drew nearer and nearer.

On the ground, Ning Hai stepped out of the car, tidied his hair and clothes, his face full of excited joy as he gazed up at the azure sky.

Behind him stood more than twenty special forces bodyguards.

As the plane landed, before it had even come to a complete stop, Ning Hai hurried forward eagerly.

After waiting so long and making tremendous efforts, he could finally reunite with his wife and daughter—how could he not be happy?

The cabin door opened slowly.

Lin Lina and Ning Yao supported each other as they walked down the stairs.

"Wife! Yao Yao!" Ning Hai waved and shouted.

But the mother and daughter both kept their heads down, looking listless and lacking energy.

After the two slowly came down, Ning Hai pulled them tightly into his embrace, saying, "Wife! Yao Yao! We've finally reunited! I've missed you so much!"

Only then did Ning Hai realize something was off.

The mother and daughter were not at all happy like he was; they didn't even call out to him.

"You… what's wrong?" Ning Hai loosened his arms.

Lin Lina took off her sunglasses and mask, revealing a pair of weary, reddened eyes and her right cheek covered with gauze.

Ning Hai gasped in shock, "Wife, what… what happened to your face?!"

"I'm fine," Lin Lina said, "but Ning Yao's mental state is terrible. Take us to our lodging, and I'll explain everything on the way."

Ning Hai supported Ning Yao's shoulders and lowered his head to look.

He saw Ning Yao with a dazed expression and hollow eyes, as if she had lost her soul, completely devoid of spirit; no matter how Ning Hai called her, she gave no response.

Ning Hai immediately scooped up Ning Yao, and together with Lin Lina, got into his dedicated bulletproof car.

The convoy sped across the endless western Gobi plain of M Guo, kicking up clouds of dust, with two armed helicopters following in the sky.

In the lead bulletproof car, Lin Lina gave Ning Yao a few sleeping and calming pills; once Ning Yao fell into a deep sleep, Lin Lina told Ning Hai about the series of events that had occurred the previous day.

The more Ning Hai listened, the grimmer his expression became; he couldn't help but reprimand Lin Lina, "I've already arranged everything for you and your daughter here. Why did you stir up this mess right before leaving? And why did you provoke Ning Jinli?!"

Although Ning Hai felt sorry for his wife and daughter, yesterday's incident was truly something they shouldn't have done.

"What are you taking your anger out on me for?" Lin Lina snapped, not giving him a pleasant look. "If you're capable, go give Ning Jinli a good dressing-down to vent for our daughter!"

"You…"

Ning Hai's cheek twitched.

Lin Lina crossed her arms over her chest, turned her head away, and wiped her tears.

Ning Hai sighed, "Ah, wife…"

Lin Lina ignored him.

Ning Hai moved closer, wanting to hug her.

"Don't touch me!" Lin Lina twisted her body to evade.

Ning Hai grasped her hand and spoke gently, "I'm not trying to take my anger out on you; I saw you and your daughter in this state, learned what happened, and in my anxiety and worry I spoke harshly. Wife, I'm sorry."

Only then did Lin Lina's emotions ease, tears streaming as she said, "I know this incident was indeed our fault to begin with. Just before we were to go abroad, we still went to have a meal with Ning Jinli. I advised Yao Yao that there was no need to keep showing off before others, but she wasn't happy about it. What could I do? I had to go along with her. Who knew things would turn out like this?"

"All right, all right, wife, don't cry, it's not your fault." Ning Hai's expression was complex. "Later I'll find a psychologist to counsel Yao Yao."

Lin Lina hung her head, dejected, "I doubt it will help. Back then the incident blew up huge—crowds were filming videos and doing livestreams; the internet was flooded with related news, video clips everywhere, it even hit the trending lists. It will probably soon spread to the international web. Even if Yao Yao and we settle permanently in M Guo from now on, she'll still be able to see those… online."

Ning Hai pondered briefly, "This problem isn't actually big; I can contact M Guo's high-level officials to have them block the relevant content from spreading within M Guo and most other countries."

Lin Lina showed a surprised expression, "Husband, you can even manage something like this?"

Ning Hai said proudly, "I can have M Guo step in to negotiate, have Huaxia grant you a pardon, and even make you and Yao become M Guo citizens; this little matter is certainly no problem."

"Husband, you're so amazing." Lin Lina threw herself into Ning Hai's arms.

Ning Hai stroked her shoulder and said softly, "Your husband, I am now so powerful beyond your imagination; otherwise I wouldn't treat the modest Ning Group's Ning Family assets as trivial. Let me tell you, even the wealthiest and most influential tycoons in Huaxia are not on my level. I am the most relied‑upon talent of the M Guo government, the kind who can change the development of M Guo and even the world."

Lin Lina was dumbfounded and speechless; it truly exceeded her imagination.

Ning Hai added, "When Yao sees her dad's abilities, I believe she will definitely pull herself together. She will also realize that Ning Jinli is just a tiny ant; she doesn't need to take anyone seriously anymore."

"Husband…" Lin Lina felt her heart surge, the admiring light in her eyes about to overflow, she called softly and gently sank into Ning Hai's arms.

The couple hadn't seen each other for months; at this moment, thunder and fire sparked instantly.

Ning Hai's whole body heated up; he held Lin Lina tightly and gave her a passionate kiss.

"Um… no…" Lin Lina tried to keep her composure, "Yao is here."

Ning Hai couldn't hold back, fumbling as he pulled down his wife's pants, "It's fine, she's asleep; we'll try to be as quiet as possible."

"With your impatient monkey‑like attitude, can the noise be small…"

"Shh, don't talk, handle the business."

…

At that moment.

Ning Yao, lying on the seat beside them, suddenly started punching and kicking, shouting, "I will kill you! Kill you!"

Ning Hai and Lin Lina, frightened, hurriedly pulled up their pants and turned to Ning Yao's side.

"Yao?"

"Yao, what's wrong?"

The couple tried calling out.

They found that Ning Yao hadn't woken up; she was just having a nightmare.

She kept her eyes shut, frowned, her complexion pale, forehead drenched in sweat, muscles taut, legs kicking wildly, both hands punching and scratching at the air, while she roared.

"Kill you… Kill you!"

"Ning Jinli! I will be your mortal enemy!"

Seeing her like that, Ning Hai and Lin Lina felt an aching pity.

The couple wrapped her in their arms, constantly soothing her, and only after much effort did she finally calm down.

"Husband…" Lin Lina said gravely, "Yao may have developed serious psychological issues. Yesterday's incident caused her great trauma; you know she was pampered since childhood, never bullied. Suddenly she was embarrassed in public and scolded by so many people… How could she possibly endure such a blow? It's over now!"

Lin Lina began to cry again as she spoke.

Ning Hai furrowed his brows, thought seriously, and said to his wife, "Don't worry, I have a way."

Then he reached out, opened the cockpit partition, ordered the driver to change course, heading straight to his experimental research base.