Chapter 59: 58. Mutual Checks and Balances (Please add to library, please vote!)

"Why?" Sun Gaixin growled. He wanted to ask clearly why Hao Yuan was doing this.

Hao Yuan was silent for a moment, then said, "If you want to call the police, I won't stop you, but from this day forward, you and the young lady must not have any more contact. This is the boss's intention."

Upon hearing this, Tian Ya immediately shouted, "On what grounds? What exactly are you all afraid of?"

Even Tian Ya could see it; naturally, Sun Gaixin also heard the implication in Hao Yuan's words.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body. He had originally thought Zhang Siyan was just an ordinary city girl who couldn't help him realize his career ambitions.

But ever since he met that father who had suddenly appeared for Zhang Siyan, he felt that everything was not as he had imagined.

Yesterday at the mall, it must have been this Zhang Ran who directed Meng Mingxuan to beat him. The reason Hao Yuan didn't come to help him at that time was because of Zhang Ran.

And today, not only was he slapped by Zhang Ran, but his own parents also had their legs broken by Zhang Ran.

What was even more critical was that he could feel their fear of Zhang Ran from his parents' eyes and from Hao Yuan's attitude!

Yes, it was fear!

He could actually understand his parents, but he couldn't understand Hao Yuan being like this. What made it even harder for him to understand was that Tian Yaohui also seemed to know Zhang Ran, and was even somewhat wary of him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have said such things.

After the anger passed, Sun Gaixin quickly calmed down. He discovered that he seemed to have done something wrong? Was he a bit too hasty?

Tian Ya saw that trace of worry in Sun Gaixin's eyes, and it seemed there was also a little bit of regret?

At this moment, she suddenly became nervous.

Back when she was a freshman, the person who welcomed her was Sun Gaixin. At that time, she had already started to like this handsome, sunny senior.

In order to get close to Sun Gaixin, Tian Ya joined the student council and followed behind him.

But soon she learned that Sun Gaixin had a girlfriend. At the time, Tian Ya still had a sense of pride; since you have a girlfriend, then this young lady will not serve you.

However, Tian Ya did not resign from her student council position. She also tried dating a few boyfriends, but she found that as time went on, she liked Sun Gaixin even more.

By the time Tian Ya was a sophomore, Sun Gaixin was about to graduate, so she tentatively confessed her feelings, but she was rejected by Sun Gaixin at the time.

Although Sun Gaixin already had considerable ambition at that time, as someone who had been treated as "other people's children" since he was young, he possessed a sense of confidence—confidence that he could completely get ahead by his own ability.

Indeed, over these many years, Sun Gaixin could be considered successful by the standards of ordinary people, but at the same time, he also discovered that with the platform he could access, wanting to realize his ever-growing aspirations was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

And over these years, apart from perhaps some inner awkwardness at the beginning, Tian Ya rarely approached Sun Gaixin. But as time passed, she couldn't help herself; feelings, in most cases, are very unreasonable.

It wasn't until Sun Gaixin seemed to have figured things out and stopped rejecting Tian Ya's overtures that today's scene came to be.

Tian Ya felt a bit panicked. She gripped Sun Gaixin's hand tightly, as if afraid he would run away.

Sun Gaixin also felt Tian Ya's thoughts. He quickly suppressed the turmoil in his heart and also gripped Tian Ya's hand firmly.

It wasn't that he liked Tian Ya all that much, but he knew that at this moment, no matter what, he and Zhang Siyan were impossible. Once he angered Tian Ya, all his previous efforts would be in vain.

Seeing that Sun Gaixin and Tian Ya seemed to have calmed down, Hao Yuan also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

In truth, he didn't sympathize with Sun Gaixin or his parents at all. In all fairness, if his own daughter encountered such in-laws and a husband, he would do the same thing.

He didn't answer Tian Ya's questioning either. Hao Yuan was very clear about what Tian Yaohui and the others were afraid of: it was that because they couldn't crack Zhang Ran's mysterious methods, Tian Yaohui and his group could only follow Zhang Ran's rules.

This was also the reason why Tian Yaohui didn't call the police, because even now, he couldn't figure out how Zhang Ran managed to do it.

When it came down to it, they only had one chance to solve it once and for all. It wasn't that they hadn't thought about it, but they were even clearer that once they failed, given the personality of Zhang Ran that they understood, Zhang Ran's subsequent retaliation would follow immediately.

By that time, if they still hadn't cracked Zhang Ran's mysterious methods, then what awaited them would be something even more desperate than death.

They were no longer the poor boys they once were; they had social status, plenty of money, and prospects they wouldn't have dared to imagine before.

Therefore, they didn't dare to gamble. The most critical point was actually that they were afraid Zhang Ran had left a contingency for this kind of method.

Tian Yaohui was right; their status and Zhang Ran's had indeed swapped positions, but at the same time, the things they dared to do, dared to fight for, and dared to gamble on before, they no longer dared to do now.

Now they were thinking of following Zhang Ran's previous style of doing things, using normal commercial means to determine the winner.

Actually, just as Zhang Ran said, they were also thinking of using the existence of Zhang Sicheng and the others to keep Zhang Ran in check, so that he wouldn't dare to use that mysterious method casually.

Let's put it this way: Zhang Ran's mysterious method was a deterrent, a deterrent that kept Tian Yaohui and the others from daring to use underhanded tactics.

And the existence of Zhang Sicheng and the others was also a restraint on Zhang Ran, making him feel tied up and not daring to use such methods to deal with Tian Yaohui and the others casually.

If not for this method as a deterrent, Tian Yaohui and the others wouldn't have waited this long; perhaps their homes would have been "on fire" not long after Zhang Ran returned.

As for the matter of Sun Ermin, Zhang Ran and Tian Yaohui actually both knew in their hearts that this was a warning from Zhang Ran, or rather, a bottom line.

As long as they dared to step over this bottom line, then Zhang Ran would dare to immediately turn hostile!

Although Hao Yuan thought of these things, he didn't tell Tian Ya about them. Saying it was useless; these things were simply not things Tian Ya could get involved in.

Just then, a nurse walked in. When Sun Gaixin saw this person, his expression turned ugly again. He recognized this nurse; she was Zhang Sicheng's wife, Liu Lu.

Sun Gaixin thought Liu Lu was coming to show off her power. Just as he was about to get angry, he remembered Hao Yuan's attitude from just a moment ago.

In fact, Liu Lu didn't know about the previous events at all; she had just been arranged to come over and check on the situation.

When she saw Sun Gaixin, she was also stunned. She quickly saw Sun Ermin and Zhao Chunlan lying on the bed, and then, thinking of some of the doctor's orders from just now, she immediately understood.

So the people with broken legs were these two?

Her first reaction was a feeling of having vented some pent-up anger; her family hadn't suffered few grievances from Sun Ermin and his wife.

Although it was a bit unfair to the nursing profession to feel this way, that was exactly how Liu Lu felt.

However, Liu Lu still had professional standards, so despite being a little happy inside, she covered it up, acted as if she didn't know them, checked and asked about the situation, and then left.

Liu Lu also went to inquire about the situation a little. When she learned that Sun Ermin and the others' legs had been broken by someone, she was clearly stunned for a moment.

Liu Lu, who was starting to prepare for her shift change, found Wang Jiajia. She wanted to find Wang Jiajia to confirm the authenticity of the necklace's price.

"Jiajia," Liu Lu called out.

Wang Jiajia was currently lost in thought and only came back to her senses upon hearing Liu Lu's voice.

"Sister."

"Jiajia, what are you thinking about? Are you in love?" Liu Lu said with a smile.

Wang Jiajia said, "No, I don't want to date for the time being."

"That's true, you're so young, there's no need to rush."

"Sis, what do you need me for? Is it because you want me to cover your shift? No problem," Wang Jiajia said.

Liu Lu hurriedly said, "No, it's about the necklace."

"Hmm?"

"It's like this, you know that your brother-in-law and I have a new house, but with our current savings, we can't afford to renovate it at all. Besides, if we use up all our savings, our life afterward will be a bit difficult, so I want to see if I can sell the necklace," Liu Lu explained.

This was the reason Liu Lu had made up her mind to sell the necklace; as long as Zhang Ran agreed, she would be willing to sell it.

She and Zhang Sicheng only had two hundred thousand in savings right now; once that was used up, if they encountered any sudden need for money, they wouldn't be able to come up with a single cent.

Whether for Zhang Sicheng or for Liu Lu, without some savings on hand, they both felt a bit uneasy.

"Sis, are you really willing to sell it?" Wang Jiajia said with some surprise.

She had seen that necklace, and if it were in her possession, she would be ten thousand times reluctant to part with it.

Selling it is easy, but wanting to buy it back would be very difficult.

Liu Lu said, "It's not that I definitely have to sell it; I still need to get my father-in-law's consent when the time comes, after all, this was a wedding gift he gave to me and your brother-in-law.

However, I want to ask about the price, whether it can really sell for one million; if my father-in-law agrees, I might sell it."