Chapter 1053: Fancy Ways to Pick a Fight

This was also one of the tasks Shi Youxuan had assigned to her; if she could discover some valuable clues, such as finding the place where Zhu Qingxiang was hiding, or evidence that could prove Chen Ran was indeed Zhu Qingrui, the reward would be ten million!

People die for wealth just as birds die for food; she needed money.

The money she had previously squeezed out of the hands of Sheng Jiang and Wang Yinghao had all been returned.

But after succeeding this time, the money earned would be enough for her to live the rest of her life without worry about food or clothing.

"You step back, let her choose."

Chen Ran gave the butler a look, and he understood and went out.

All the rooms had been looked through, and Wang Yingzhi was disappointed; she hadn't found anything.

So, she pointed to the room Chen Ran was staying in: "I'll stay in this one, trouble you to change rooms."

"Alright, no problem."

Chen Ran agreed very readily and had people move things immediately to change rooms for her.

"Let's go, we're heading back." She stood up, preparing to leave.

Chen Ran was stunned: "Why are you leaving now? Didn't you say you wanted to live here?"

Wang Yingzhi glared: "Do you want to put me under house arrest, do you want to restrict my personal freedom? I asked you to vacate the room because this is my house, but whether I live here or not is my freedom; you have no right to manage me."

Chen Ran:...

He was almost angered to the point of fainting.

After turning everything upside down, she just lightly said she wouldn't stay anymore?

"Are you here to pick a fight?"

"Yes."

Wang Yingzhi admitted it generously, and she even looked at Chen Ran with a provocative gaze that said, I am picking a fight, but what can you do about me?

She said in her heart: Get angry, go ahead and get angry, hurry up.

Lao Qi's inner thoughts at this moment were much the same as Wang Yingzhi's.

However, Chen Ran did not get angry.

He even smiled: "It's fine, you are an elder; respect the old and cherish the young, I understand."

He stepped aside and made a polite gesture of invitation: "You are right, this is your home; you can do whatever you want, it's not my place to interfere."

Chen Ran's ability to endure made even Wang Yingzhi marvel; he could endure too much, but it didn't matter, she would be even more excessive!

"Give me a key." She held out her hand.

"Hm?"

Seeing Chen Ran didn't move, Wang Yingzhi explained: "If you aren't home when I come back, won't I need to get in? Give me a key."

"That's not necessary, is it?"

Chen Ran explained: "The front door has a keypad lock; I'll just register your fingerprint."

She refused: "No, I don't know what else you'd do with my fingerprint. Besides, I'm old and don't know how to use those things; I just know keys are easy to use, so I'll use a key."

Having a fingerprint or a code was convenient, but there was also the possibility of not being able to open it, such as if the power went out, or if the people inside the house didn't want that code to continue being used.

A key was the final line of defense; now that Wang Yingzhi had asked for it directly, Chen Ran could only give it to her.

Once the key was in hand, she was temporarily satisfied.

"Let's go."

She took Lao Qi and left.

The butler returned from the back door: "Young Master, the people are all arranged; what do you think..."

"Slap!"

Before he could finish speaking, he received a heavy slap on the face.

Chen Ran scolded angrily: "I think you're old and muddled and useless; the people have already left and only then did you get things arranged, what's the use?"

The butler was dumbfounded.

Before he left, he had clearly heard Wang Yingzhi say she wanted to live here; how did she leave?

He had gone out to arrange for reporters, preparing to catch them in the act and report it in real-time, providing solid proof that the Sheng Family was bullying the Chen Family and retaliating.

But the reporters had been brought over, yet the person was gone.

He didn't understand, and he didn't dare ask.

Chen Ran's anger had subsided a bit by now; he also knew that the previous matter wasn't the butler's fault, he had just been too angry and hadn't controlled himself.

"Go to the accountant and collect a gold bar; consider it my compensation to you. It was my fault for not controlling my emotions just now."

"Young Master, whatever you do to me is never wrong; you are the Young Master, and I am a servant."

"Go, this is what you deserve." He patted the butler on the shoulder, having returned to a calm state in an instant.

He told the butler to withdraw a bit more money from the accountant to give to the reporters as tea money; he couldn't let them make the trip for nothing.

Wang Yingzhi was too arrogant; he couldn't let her act recklessly in A Country.

But he couldn't let her die in his own house; that would be too easy to leave behind evidence!

Chen Ran needed to think of a foolproof plan to get rid of Wang Yingzhi without anyone suspecting him.

Before he could think of a way, trouble came one after another.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Three-thirty in the morning.

Chen Ran had finally fallen asleep, only to be woken up by the banging sounds.

Was it like someone smashing a wall?

He covered his head with the quilt, but his voice was not quiet at all.

Besides the sound of wall-banging, there was a faint sound of arguing.

The female voice was Wang Yingzhi, sharp and self-righteous.

The male voice was the housekeeper, suppressing his anger as if trying to reason.

But Wang Yingzhi was unreasonable; what she liked most, and was best at, was arguing, especially with people inferior to herself.

She would stir up trouble without cause and wouldn't care if she angered someone to death.

Chen Ran did not go out; he knew he had to endure it.

If he went out now, that woman would only become more unscrupulous, and even worse next time!

But the arguing was endless, and there was no telling when it would end.

From the pitch-black sky to the dim light of dawn, and then to full daylight.

Heaven knows what Chen Ran had been through.

He had listened to three full hours of wall-banging and arguing, the two sounds rising and falling, one fading as the other grew.

Whenever the arguing started, the sound of wall-banging would weaken.

But when the arguing stopped, the other sound would rise, without even a pause.

Finally, all the sounds stopped; presumably, Wang Yingzhi was tired of the commotion and didn't want to continue.

He pulled back the curtains, confirming his guess—Wang Yingzhi's car sped away, leaving a trail of dust.

But there was no point in sleeping now; he had to go to school today, and he couldn't be late.

……

School.

Chen Ran got out of the car with two panda eyes and walked toward the classroom.

Classmates asked him non-stop along the way: "Chen Ran, what happened to your eyes?"

"Didn't sleep well last night? You look terrible."

"Student Chen, you didn't go to a nightclub to play instead of studying or sleeping at night like those playboys, did you?"

"No, I never go to places like that."

It would have been fine if others just asked, but what was most infuriating was that Shi Ran also said to him: "Your complexion is bad, you should take care of your health."

Chen Ran couldn't hold back and retorted: "If you could stop your grandmother from coming to my house to cause trouble, my complexion wouldn't be bad." This was the harshest thing Chen Ran had ever said to Shi Ran.

On the surface, the two had always been friendly, knowing each other's background but never exposing it.

Both children were young but had deep reserves, able to remain calm and composed even if Mount Tai were to collapse before them.

But Chen Ran had been tortured by Wang Yingzhi to the point of losing control, revealing his true inner thoughts.

Shi Ran: "She is not my grandmother; my grandmother is in Jiangzhou. Please be precise in your speech, Student Chen, and do not spread rumors."

Chen Ran: ……

"Fine, I admit I wasn't precise just now, but even if she isn't your grandmother, she was sent by your Sheng Family."

"Do you have evidence? If you have evidence, you can go to the police station to report our family. If you don't have evidence, I ask that Student Chen not speak nonsense; it's not good for anyone's reputation."