Chapter 943: Stealing a Chicken Only to Lose the Rice: The Essence Edition

Forget it, relying on others is not as good as relying on oneself.

She attempted to move her stiff limbs to get her blood circulating faster and to regain some sensation in her numb legs so she could climb down.

But just as she moved a little, she suddenly lost her balance—"Ahhhhhhh!"

Madam Sun's center of gravity shifted outward, and she plummeted headfirst.

"Oh no, someone actually jumped!"

"My goodness, she really jumped."

"Quick, save her!"

She succeeded—people's attention was finally successfully drawn over, and everyone's gaze and emotions followed her as she fell rapidly!

"I don't want to die!"

This was one of the few honest things Madam Sun had ever said in her life.

"Bang!"

She landed on the air cushion, completely unharmed.

People breathed a sigh of relief and crowded around, asking with concern: "Are you okay?"

"Do you need to go to the hospital?"

"My goodness, why did you suddenly jump down?"

Before she could even pretend to be pitiful to win sympathy, this person said another sentence that nearly made her die of anger.

"I had just gotten a clue to guess who among them was lying, and then you fell down. If you're fine, hurry home. Next time you're bored, don't learn from others and play at jumping off buildings."

Madam Sun:...

"Who is bored and playing at jumping off a building? You try being bored and jumping once! I have a massive grievance..."

"If you have a grievance, go to the court. Don't engage in moral kidnapping here. Hurry up and leave, hurry up and leave."

There were quite a few people who shared this person's thoughts.

At the same time, four or five people came over, pulled her up from the air cushion, and pushed her out of the crowd.

"My story is better than theirs."

"Yes, yes, yes, go home and tell it, don't be an eyesore here."

She still wouldn't give up and grabbed another person: "Listen to me..."

"Not listening, not listening, don't block my way."

"Do you want to hear my story?"

"No, we asked you to talk earlier and you wouldn't. Now that you want to talk, we don't want to listen."

Madam Sun was pushed out of the crowd.

She still wouldn't give up.

She shouted from outside the crowd: "Those people are acting, they don't really want to jump."

No one paid her any mind.

She was unwilling to give up and continued: "This is an office building, not a residential one. How could a matter of a romantic relationship come to a company? It's clearly actors hired to divert your attention..."

"So noisy!"

The person closest to her turned around, dissatisfied: "Are you done yet? Are you satisfied only when everyone's attention is on you? You say others have ulterior motives, but I think you're the one with ulterior motives!"

"Dingsheng is the leading group in Jiangzhou; you must be a spy sent by a rival, right?"

"No, I'm not." Now that the situation had changed and she had become the one being questioned, Madam Sun shook her head and waved her hands, explaining repeatedly.

"I think you are."

"I think this woman is also very suspicious. Police, take this woman away; I suspect she is intentionally causing trouble."

"It's not causing trouble, it's corporate espionage."

No matter how well she could talk, one person with one mouth could not out-talk so many people. Soon the police arrived; she subconsciously wanted to run, but she couldn't get away and was taken away by the police.

Once Madam Sun got into the police car, the few people on the floor above who were going to jump immediately climbed down from the windowsill.

So what if they were acting?

One side was willing to act.

The other side was willing to watch.

With no ulterior motive and no deception, no one could say anything.

Police station.

Madam Sun was still stubborn, insisting that her jumping off the building at Dingsheng Group was because the Sheng Family had forced her into a dead end.

The police asked: "How did the Sheng Family force you? Do you have evidence?"

She was speechless.

She had evidence, but she couldn't bring it out. It would be fine if that evidence wasn't brought out, but bringing it out would not benefit her and would even backfire.

"I don't have evidence. I'm just an ordinary commoner; I can't fight the wealthy and powerful Sheng Family. I won't sue anymore, let me go."

She thought quite beautifully, thinking that it would be over if she didn't pursue it.

But in this world, things cannot just go the way she wants them to.

"Sit down."

The police officer scolded.

"You won't sue? It's not up to you to decide that now. You might not be suing them, but they are going to sue you."

"She, she is bullying others by relying on her power..."

Sweat was pouring down the woman's forehead, and her confidence was severely lacking.

Her brain spun rapidly, but no matter how she turned it this time, she could not think of a good idea.

All her ideas had been exhausted in the battle of wits against Shi Youxuan; now she was at her wit's end and had no solutions left at all.

The police officer did not care what she was thinking and said, "The Sheng Family's Lüshi just arrived. You are suspected of slander and defamation; you must compensate for the reputational and economic losses caused to the Sheng Family..."

She knew Shi Youxuan had evidence in her hands, and if she wanted to sue her, it would be a guaranteed conviction.

She regretted it; she regretted that when the Lüshi came to her door that day, she shouldn't have stirred up other trouble. It would have been better to just apologize honestly back then, and none of what followed would have happened.

At the time, life had no "ifs," no regret pills, and no chance to do it all over again!

However, she still wanted to struggle a bit.

Madam Sun pleaded with a bitter face: "Officer, I am willing to apologize. Please tell Madam Sheng that I agree to her suggestion from yesterday; I will apologize..."

"It's too late. Madam Sheng does not want to accept your apology anymore."

She begged bitterly: "I beg you, please arrange for us to meet. I will beg Madam Sheng; she is a magnanimous person and will agree to see me. Please have pity on me; I have an eighty-year-old mother above and a four-year-old daughter below. The child's father is a drunkard, gambler, and womanizer—if the child is left in his hands, she's finished!"

The police officer sneered: "You're thinking of your child now? What were you doing before?"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's all my fault. I regret it, I regret it so much!"

She kept begging bitterly, pestering and wheedling.

Finally, she saw Shi Youxuan.

"Madam Sheng, I was wrong. I truly know I was wrong. Please raise your hand high and let me off this once. I promise to be your beast of burden in the future, I'll do anything."

Shi Youxuan sneered: "When you slandered our family back then, you didn't think there would be a scene like this, did you?"

"I was wrong, I truly know I was wrong!"

The woman's attitude was exceptionally good, and she kept apologizing, attempting to muddle through using this method.

Shi Youxuan did not refute her, watching her performance quietly.

After the woman finished apologizing, she began to praise Shi Youxuan, praising her as if she were peerless in heaven and on earth, saying all the nice things she could. Just as she thought Shi Youxuan might be softening, she suddenly asked: "The fact that your daughter approached my son and incited him to hit people—that was taught by you, right?"

She was still immersed in her own world and hadn't reacted yet. When suddenly asked, she subconsciously said: "Yes."

Once the words were out, she realized she had said the wrong thing, but it could no longer be taken back.

Before she could explain, Shi Youxuan said: "Don't tell me you taught your child to do this just for fun. Whatever your motive was, just say it. If you tell the truth now, perhaps I'll be in a good mood and let you off. If you prepare to continue telling me those useless, pretty words, don't blame me for being impolite."

She was not stupid; she knew Shi Youxuan was not trying to scare her. This was truly her last chance!

Hardening her heart, she told the truth: "I thought your family was rich, so I wanted to extort some money to spend, but I didn't expect you wouldn't fall for it."