Chapter 14: Entangled

He gave a dry laugh and said: "Jiaci, you, you, why didn't you tell me earlier that you're following Wang LaoBan?"

"If only I had known earlier."

"Brother can't just run up to you and show off."

"Alright, nothing, brother's just leaving now."

"When you have time, brother will treat you to a meal!"

Liu Qisheng gave a dry laugh, said two sentences, then hurriedly waved at the brothers beside him and tried to slip away.

"Don't move!"

Lin Zhong suddenly spoke: "Did I let you guys leave?"

"Zhong Ge, is there, is there anything else you'd like to order?"

Liu Qisheng respectfully asked Lin Zhong: "If you have any orders, just say them; I, your younger brother, will definitely follow."

"This chair was kicked broken, right?"

Lin Zhong pointed at the chair Li Jiaci had just sat on and said: "This chair is quite expensive; without three thousand, you won't be leaving this door today."

"This..."

Liu Qisheng's eyes were full of bitterness.

But seeing Lin Zhong's expression, he didn't dare hesitate too much.

He immediately felt out a stack of bills from his body, counted them, then said to the few people behind him: "Did you bring money? Hurry up and take it out."

Upon hearing that, they all painfully pulled out money, gathering here and there, but only managed to collect less than two thousand.

"Zhong Ge!"

"I, I only have this much on me."

Liu Qisheng stammered: "If, if you're in a hurry, I'll go get some more."

"Brother Li."

Lin Zhong inquired: "What do you think?"

"I have no opinion."

"Then let's do it like this."

Lin Zhong snatched the money from Liu Qisheng's hand in one go, handed it to Li Jiaci, and said casually: "You guys can scram."

"Thank you, Zhong Ge, thank you, Zhong Ge."

Liu Qisheng didn't dare stay even half a second, immediately taking his people and fleeing.

Today it's also his turn to be unlucky.

He came out to extort money but didn't succeed; instead, he got extorted of two thousand.

…

On the other side.

Lin Zhong also turned his gaze to Li Jiaci's face: "Today's matter counts as helping Zhen Ge repay your favor."

"Hehe."

"I've already said before, you don't owe me anything."

Li Jiaci also met Lin Zhong's gaze and said: "Zhong Ge coming over today probably isn't just to help me, right?"

His appearance was too timely.

It was exactly when Liu Qisheng was about to make a move that he appeared.

And this obviously only has one explanation: he had arrived early and was just watching from the shadows.

"Quite clever."

Lin Zhong nodded and said: "Zhen Ge has already investigated everything you said and confirmed that this matter was done by Zhao Pangzi."

"I'm now preparing to bring people to wipe out Zhao Pangzi."

"I heard you also have a grudge against this person; do you want to come with us?"

"Or maybe just forget it."

Li Jiaci shook his head and said: "I'm not interested in fighting and killing, and I'm truly afraid of trouble and death; otherwise I couldn't have sold this information to you."

"As long as you take care of him and let me know, that's enough."

"Hmm..."

Lin Zhong gave him a deep look, didn't continue saying more, only said: "That's fine; Zhen Ge owes you a favor, which means I owe you a favor; today we've repaid half, whenever you need to repay the other half, just come find me."

"Good!"

Li Jiaci didn't argue further.

After seeing Lin Zhong off,

Li Jiaci returned to his room to fix the chair that was about to fall apart.

Fortunately, it's wooden; just need to fix two nails and it can be re-riveted.

But also at this moment.

The door was knocked on again.

Li Jiaci was a bit annoyed; who is it, coming again and again?

But when he opened the door, he felt a soft warm mass bump into his embrace.

He lowered his head to look.

Li Jiaci's brows involuntarily furrowed together.

The one who bumped into his embrace was none other than Li Qinglan, whom he had just chased away during the day.

Her whole body reeked of alcohol, making people want to vomit.

Li Jiaci's brows knotted into a knot, and he directly pulled Li Qinglan off himself.

Jiaci, you, you—why are you treating me like this?

Li Qinglan looked at him, face full of grievance: "You never used to be like this before."

"Before was before, now is now."

Li Jiaci said coldly: "Before I get angry, get lost quick!"

But Li Qinglan didn't move at all.

She even wanted to lunge onto Li Jiaci.

Li Jiaci pushed her away again, then pointed at her nose and shouted: "Warning you for the last time, don't touch me with your dirty hands!"

Looking at Li Jiaci like that.

A flash of resentment crossed Li Qinglan's eyes.

And in an instant, all that resentment turned into grievance.

"Jiaci..."

Li Qinglan tightly bit her lip: "You said you would never drive me away, never despise me, never abandon me..."

"Heh, hahahaha..."

When anger reaches its extreme, one really can laugh out loud.

Just like Li Jiaci at this moment, hearing Li Qinglan's words, he laughed extremely brightly.

She actually still had the nerve to say these things to him.

Could it be that this woman has no shame?

After who knows how long, he finally stopped laughing, and his gaze shifted to Li Qinglan's face.

"When you betrayed me, what were you thinking?"

Li Jiaci tilted his head and said: "Back then, you never thought I might drive you away, abandon you, or despise you because of this?"

"I didn't, I really didn't!"

"He, it's all him forcing me to do this."

Li Qinglan, eyes brimming with tears, said: "He's had his eye on you for a long time, and he also knows our relationship."

"He threatened me, saying that if I didn't tell him about your matter..."

"He would contact the school to cancel my enrollment and also have you all arrested and thrown into the police station."

"I really didn't know what to do, so I...!"

"Enough!"

Li Jiaci suddenly kicked, smashing that chair to pieces.

"So you just betrayed me?"

"So in your eyes, my life, Li Jiaci, is less important than your enrollment, right?"

Li Qinglan, frightened by his gaze, trembled and quickly shook her head in denial: "No, no, I didn't, he, he told me that based on your actions, at most you'd be detained a few days, nothing else would happen, really..."

"Jiaci, I know I was wrong."

"I really know I was wrong, please forgive me?"

"As long as you're willing to forgive me, you can have me do anything, just don't abandon me, okay?"

Li Qinglan said this, and the moisture in her eyes turned into droplets that fell to the ground, making her look pitiful and helpless.

"Forgive you?"

"How do you want me to forgive you?"

"I trust you, treat you as one of my own, so I never keep anything from you."

Li Jiaci said: "But you? Knowing full well what we were about to do, you still told our information to the police."

"If you were a child, I could believe you really didn't know."

"But Li Qinglan, you're not a child anymore, you're a college student, you know far more than I, this deadbeat."

"And you should also be well aware that once they catch us, what our fate will be."

Li Jiaci stared at Li Qinglan and said: "Let's go, from now on don't come looking for me again, otherwise I really can't guarantee that next time I see you I won't just kill you directly."