Chapter 663: The Moment of Light

In a person's life, there will always be that one moment where a blinding ray of sunlight illuminates a stretch of their life, even if it only lasts for an instant!

Luo Lin stared straight into Lan Si's eyes, her eye sockets filled with tears to the point that Lan Si appeared blurry and indistinct in her vision. "I didn't take it!"

"I have never taken anything that belonged to someone else!"

She almost screamed it out; the grievance in her heart was like a collapsed levee, and bean-sized tears fell in a continuous stream.

A sensitive and fragile girl had been framed, gossiped about, and threatened by a teacher who didn't know the truth; now, she seemed to want to cry out all the grievances she felt!

The vice principal's expression was also quite unpleasant. She sighed softly, "Mr. Lan Si, although I am also unwilling for such a thing to happen, the fact is that we found the item her classmate lost in Luo Lin's schoolbag."

Lan Si cast a sidelong glance at her. "Call over the person who said they lost their item. I want to ask her a few questions."

The vice principal hesitated for a moment, but she complied. The girl's father was a Socialist Party representative and also a successful businessman.

The order of these two relationships might be slightly inverted; looking at it the other way around, he was first a successful businessman with his own career, which was why he became a representative—representing the workers who worked for him.

This type of role had political influence and financial power, and he could frequently converse with people within the Socialist Party, although he wasn't considered a particularly major figure.

But once detached from other things, he was certainly much more formidable than this vice principal.

It was just... she glanced at Lan Si and the people standing behind him, and she still picked up the phone. "Bring the girl who lost the item to my office."

She hung up the phone and remained silent. By all rights, out of courtesy, she should have offered Lan Si some coffee and pastries.

However, it seemed she did not intend to do so; she wanted to use this method to express her inner dissatisfaction with Lan Si!

About seven or eight minutes later, footsteps were heard outside the door, accompanied by a knock and the vice principal's "Come in." A teacher and a very pretty-looking blonde girl entered from outside the door.

On her head, she wore a beautiful gemstone butterfly hairpin. It was very pretty, likely very much to the girls' liking, and it wasn't cheap.

"What is your name?" the vice principal asked. She hadn't asked the girl's name before; she had only treated it as a very simple, minor matter to handle.

"Aixi, Madam Principal." The little girl glanced timidly at Lan Si. No matter how slow she was, she knew that Luo Lin's "guardian" had arrived.

She had framed Luo Lin and instinctively felt a bit guilty, but what she displayed was a kind of timidity and fear.

The teacher behind her reached out and pressed her shoulder, giving her an encouraging look. "We are all here; no one can hurt you."

Aixi nodded, but she still didn't dare to look at Lan Si much.

Actually, Lan Si was very handsome, handsome to the point of being a bit blinding. If it were normal times, she would certainly stare at him without blinking, but now, she didn't dare to look.

Lan Si exuded something that made her afraid; she felt a bit like peeing now!

"Aixi, why did you lie?" Lan Si asked directly.

On one hand, he believed Luo Lin; Luo Lin's performance just now was indeed the emotional change of a child who felt extremely aggrieved. Unless she had acting skills on the level of a movie queen, it couldn't be faked.

On the other hand, he had a premonition that this matter was not aimed at Luo Lin.

She was just a sensitive, fragile girl with a bit of an inferiority complex; she wouldn't be a threat to anyone, nor could she possibly hurt anyone.

But now that they were treating her this way, there was only one possibility.

The target was him, Lan Si.

Therefore, he believed that this girl named Aixi had lied.

"I... didn't, sir." She still kept her head down, not daring to look at Lan Si, somewhat stubbornly refusing to admit to Lan Si's question.

Lan Si was some distance away from her. "Come to my side."

The teacher behind her took a deep breath. "You don't have to do that."

Lan Si glanced at her, then his gaze fell back onto Aixi. "Have your family or your teachers ever told you not to be a person who lies?"

"Actually, you have absolutely no reason to join in such a game, but you joined in. Regardless of who made you do this, you have become a part of the game."

"You have to take responsibility, Aixi."

Aixi was silent for a while and walked to a place not far from Lan Si. As long as Lan Si reached out, he could touch her.

"Someone made you put your hairpin into Luo Lin's schoolbag without her knowing, and you did it, then told the teacher your item was stolen."

"You succeeded too. Now they all think Luo Lin is that thief. You were just a tiny bit away from destroying her!"

He used two fingers to gesture a small distance. "I have no intention of holding you responsible, Aixi."

"You are still a child; you cannot distinguish what is good and what is bad in this world."

"I just want to know who made you do these things, and then I want to ask him, why?"

"Now, before I get angry, tell me the answer."

Aixi didn't speak. She bit her lip, keeping her head down. The one who made her do this was her father; she couldn't tell everyone that her father made her frame her classmate, right?

The more she displayed this "stubborn" look, the more it showed that she had a problem. She wasn't aggrieved, just afraid—this wasn't right!

Lan Si grabbed her wrist, bringing her closer to himself.

The vice principal stood up immediately. "You cannot touch her..."

Before she could finish her sentence, someone beside Lan Si strode over, stood in front of her, pointed at her chair, and scolded loudly, "Sit back down!"

At the same time, he pulled back his coat, his hand resting on his pistol.

The vice principal widened her eyes, watching all this happen in disbelief; this was not at all what she had imagined would happen!

Facing a danger beyond her expectations, she ultimately chose to follow her heart and slowly sat back down!

Although she sat back down, she hadn't completely compromised.

"You're crazy, you're simply crazy. When people know everything you've done..."

Lan Si was a bit impatient. "Make her shut up."

The next second, a cold gun barrel was shoved into the vice principal's mouth. She saw danger in the eyes of the person in front of her!

If Lan Si told him to pull the trigger, he really would!

It was also at this very moment that she understood: for some people, a school might be a sacred place, but for Lan Si and his people, it was not!

Lan Si would not be easygoing or even respectful toward her just because she was a vice principal who might know many important people.

No, nothing at all. In Lan Si's eyes, she was just an ordinary person!

!

Aixi's teacher was also blocked between himself and Aixi. The look in the other person's eyes was filled with something that made her teacher feel fear; she didn't dare to act rashly and could only beg Lan Si not to hurt the girl.

Lan Si didn't take them seriously at all. He just looked at the girl and lifted her chin. He covered the girl's cheeks with his hand, and he could feel Aixi's body trembling slightly.

"I actually don't want to do this, but sometimes our kindness is taken by others as weakness."

"Aixi, you have a pair of beautiful eyes, more attractive than your gemstone hairpin. They are as dazzling as the stars."

"But your lies make them dim, making them unworthy of your beauty."

"Do you need me to help you gouge them out?"

"Or are you planning to let them shine again?"

Lan Si's thumb pressed against her eyes. She closed her eyes, but she could still feel that slight pressure, making her eye sockets swell.

Aixi's legs were clamped tightly together; she couldn't hold it anymore and peed a little.

On her face remained only the terror that distorted her expression; her body was also trembling violently, and she began to cry and shed tears.

It was just that her tears were different from Luo Lin's. Her tears were filled with fear and regret, while Luo Lin's tears held only pure grievance.

As the pressure on her eyes grew greater and greater, she wanted to dodge, but Lan Si's hands held her cheeks tightly, leaving her nowhere to hide!

All kinds of complex emotions made her unable to control the feelings in her heart any longer. She didn't want to become blind!!

"That is not your fault. I just want to know who made you do this. Tell me!"

Lan Si asked again. Her emotions seemed to have found an outlet, and she said the name with trembling lips: "It was Dad..."

The pressure on her eyeballs disappeared in an instant. She gasped for air, looking at Lan Si as if she were looking at a monster!

The vice principal and her teacher looked at her in disbelief. Lan Si took out a handkerchief to wipe his hands, and incidentally helped the girl wipe her tear-stained face.

"See, telling the truth isn't hard."

Although he knew the answer, his expression was not pleasant.

This was a "trap." If they had only brought two people inside because they subconsciously thought the school was a safe place, following the request of that idiot security guard, he might be lying on the ground right now.

There were gunmen in this school, but now the other side probably didn't know that they already knew the truth, so he had to find these people.

He stood up and walked to the side of the vice principal's desk. The vice principal said with an awkward and ashamed expression, "Mr. Lan Si..."

Before she could finish, Lan Si picked up the phone. Only then did she realize that Lan Si hadn't come to talk to her about anything.

The call was quickly connected. "Come... to the school. There might be gunmen here waiting to ambush me. We have to find them."

"I'm not going anywhere in the school for now. Be quick."

He then hung up the phone and glanced at the vice principal. "Give me the information on her father."

At this time, David hadn't left immediately because the door to the administration building was blocked by Lan Si's motorcade.

Some people followed Lan Si to the principal's office, but some also stayed downstairs.

It was basically impossible for them to know David, and David didn't know them, but David didn't dare to take the risk.

He wasn't stupid; what if someone felt something was wrong?

He planned to wait a bit. Since he had already decided to abandon this mission, he could completely wait until Lan Si left before leaving here.

It was just that what he didn't know was that he had already been exposed.

(End of chapter)