Chapter 171 - Threat

It was dawn when Lin Yi's ringtone woke him up. He'd been experiencing the benefits of sleep the last couple days- it was extremely effective in replenis.h.i.+ng the energy inside of him.

"h.e.l.lo?" Lin Yi answered, still not fully awake yet.

"Lin Yi?" A familiar voice sounded from the other end of the phone. "This is Song Lingshan."

"Oh, the lioness. h.e.l.lo……" Lin Yi said as he yawned.

"What the-?! Lin Yi? What did you just call me?!" Lingshan said, instantly exploding from Lin Yi's comment. "I dare you to say it again!"

Lin Yi had subconsciously set that nickname for Lingshan just from his initial impressions of her- the girl had quite the violent personality, after all. He couldn't help but accidentally slip that out when half-awake, however…

"Ugh…… It was a dream, I was fighting a lioness!" Lin Yi said, sweating a little as he snapped himself wide awake. The nickname wasn't something he should let Lingshan know about!

"Hmph!" Lingshan hmped, not in the mood to be dwelling on the matter, even if she knew Lin Yi was bulls.h.i.+ting his way out of the remark. "Do you have time?"

"What for?" Lin Yi asked.

"I'll go find you at school later- Captain Yang told me to consult you." Lingshan explained. "To help me out with the case."

Song Lingshan was simply out of options- searching for the culprits in the mountain forest was too much of a ha.s.sle. It wasn't a safe area, and she couldn't just throw people in there one after the other. There was no progress whatsoever the last couple days, and Lingshan remembered Huaijun's suggestion. She decided to try her luck with Lin Yi after that.

The only reason she'd ever do that, however, was because of her absolute trust in Yang Huaijun. As far as she knew, the guy was Chu Mengyao's bodyguard- how capable could a mere bodyguard be?

"Ah……" A soft smile formed of Lin Yi's lips. So she decided to call me after all. "Sure, but you need to get me a leave first. I can't skip school all the time right?"

"All the time? This is my first time asking for you, okay?" Lingshan said, p.i.s.sed. "What does your cla.s.s skipping have to do with me?"

"I skipped yesterday because of Jun Bro, and I'm skipping today because of you. I'm skipping school so much caz of the police force, right?" Lin Yi said.

"Jun Bro? Captain Yang?" Lingshan blinked, not expecting Huaijun to have asked for Lin Yi yesterday, as well. After all, there was no reason for Lin Yi to lie about this sort of thing in the first place- it was something she was one phone call away from knowing the truth of, and she didn't doubt Lin Yi's claim because of that. "Alright, I'll talk to your dean about it."

"Sure. Wait for me at food street near the school then- not a lot of people there in the mornings." Lin Yi said, getting out of bed and looking for some clothes to put on.

He'd planned to go to school with Mengyao and Yushu today, having missed cla.s.s too often and all… w.a.n.g Zhifeng wouldn't say anything about that, but he had no intention of having too many special privileges. He was still a student, after all.

Mengyao and Yushu had barely touched the food from yesterday, and Lin Yi decided that he should leave it for them. Song Lingshan had just asked him for help, and it was safe to a.s.sume that she'd at least treat him to a meal…

Truth be told, Lin Yi was looking to pick the criminals out on his own even if Lingshan hadn't reached out to him, considering that he'd destroyed the pacified relations.h.i.+p he and Cihua had already. There was no reason to avoid p.i.s.sing the guy off anymore, and it'd be better if he got rid of these smaller factors first.

He left a note for Mengyao, telling her that he had something to do again today. He then got in Yushu's Beetle, wondering when Li Fu would get him his driver's licence. He should have asked Huaijun to fix that up for him in the first place- Li Fu still needed to work some connections out before he could get Lin Yi a quick licence.

He drove past the slums, and slowed down subconsciously as he noticed the gangster bothering Tang Yin, who was at the bus stop again. The guy was making gestures and rich expressions as he talked to Tang Yin, who tried her best to ignore the gangster, albeit a little uncomfortably.

What the? Lin Yi wasn't expecting the guy to be bothering Tang Yin again this soon- was his b.u.t.t all healed up already?

Lin Yi raced his hand across the wheel, shot his foot down at the accelerator, and swerved right at the youngster, the wheels of his car screeching as he did so.

He stopped the Beetle an instant before hitting the youngster, evidently a master at handling smaller cars like this one.

"Ah……" The people at the bus stop stared, clearly shocked by the scene. Tang Yin, on the other hand, looked extremely pale and shocked as well.

The one most affected, however, had to be the youngster, who sweated all over his body as he stared in utter shock at the car in front of him. He blinked a while after, realizing that the car hadn't done him any harm before jumping out at Lin Yi. "f.u.c.k your mom, man! Do you f.u.c.king know how to drive? Are your eyes f.u.c.king blind? Get the f.u.c.k out of the car!!"

The youngster's c.o.c.kiness started flowing out again, and was just about to pull at Lin Yi's door when something crossed his mind- this car seemed to be a Beetle, and it had to be at least two hundred thousand kuai… The youngster then tried to figure out a way to scam the driver into paying him a couple thousands' worth of medical fees.

Lin Yi's door was locked, and Li Erlan had no way of opening it. He was just about to give up when Lin Yi shoved the door open, sending Erlan stumbling and landing on his b.u.t.t, opening his wound once more as he shrieked in pain.

"Oh? Your b.u.t.t doesn't look very healed to me- I thought you'd forgotten what it was like to fall off a bus already." Lin Yi said, quite tyrannical as he faced the man sitting on his b.u.t.t.

"You… It was you!!" Li Erlan exclaimed, instantly understanding the situation- That was why Lin Yi drove straight at him! He was the one who threw him off the bus yesterday!

"Haha, you're pretty smart!" Lin Yi said, eyeing Erlan coldly. "But your brain doesn't seem to understand the situation. Make sure you keep your hands off Tang Yin from now on- you won't be so lucky the next time I catch you."

The entire school thought of the two as a couple, anyway- the truth of it didn't matter, but there was no way Lin Yi could just ignore things like this when it concerned his 'girlfriend' from now on. Although, he'd probably help Tang Yin out even without the whole rumor going around in school.

"f.u.c.k, so you're Tang Yin's guardian angel?" Erlan laughed. "Hey, Tang Yin lives in the slums you know? Let's see you protect her every day… we'll take care of the debts we owe each other then. Isn't that right, Tang Yin?"

Chapter 172 - Proven Rumors

Tang Yin's face paled instantly upon hearing Erlan's words, and she bit her lip as she lowered her head.

A hint of killing intent flashed across Lin Yi's eyes- Li Erlan would've become a corpse that instant if it weren't for the circ.u.mstances he was in.

He looked at Erlan coldly. "Don't give me a reason to touch you, alright?"

With that, he grabbed Tang Yin's arm. "Get in!"

"Ah… Oh……" Tang Yin uttered, troubled and confused at what Lin Yi's sudden appearance and the things he'd said to Erlan- resisting Lin Yi hadn't even crossed her mind as Lin Yi got her into the front seat.

Lin Yi then got on the driver's seat, making sure Tang Yin was properly seated before driving the car away.

Erlan, on the other hand, glared at Lin Yi's departing car angrily. "It's a f.u.c.king girl car, who do you think you are? You wait and see."

Li Erlan wasn't in a good position to be doing anything to Lin Yi at the bus stop- he was also wary of Lin Yi's strength, judging from how easy it was to throw him off the bus yesterday. He was still injured in the b.u.t.t, too, and it'd only be disadvantageous for him to pick a fight with Lin Yi right now.

Yet he wasn't about to just let the guy go like that- he wasn't threatening Lin Yi for fun earlier, too. After all, the guy couldn't just look after Tang Yin the whole time! The Beetle wasn't anything impressive, either, and even Erlan himself had someone backing him up. He'd like to see how f.u.c.ked Lin Yi would be when he told Master Bin about what he'd done to him.

He rubbed at his a.s.s before standing up, yelling at the bystanders who were having fun watching him. "The f.u.c.king a.s.s you looking at? Mind your own f.u.c.king business!"

Erlan's words, however, encouraged the laughter, and some of them even mocked him softly. "Yeah, it's your a.s.s we're looking at……"

Erlan was a gangster of the slums, but even he couldn't mess with a crowd in public like that. There wasn't much he could do but leave in embarra.s.sment.

Tang Yin only recovered after the car drove on for a while- what the h.e.l.l was she doing in Lin Yi's car? The guy even held her hand, too…!!

The guy had pulled her in during the confusion, but everything happening that instant was clearly very wrong.

"Ah!! Stop the car!" Tang Yin said, panicking and blus.h.i.+ng as she raised her head at Lin Yi. It'd be just perfect if anyone happened to see her in Lin Yi's car- the rumors would be as proven as proven could be at that point!

Tang Yin's concerns were actually well-founded, for Xinwen just happened to see Lin Yi pull Tang Yin into his car……

She stopped herself from calling out to Tang Yin the moment she saw that, for the car was long gone already…

"Yin, you liar!!" Xinwen stomped her foot angrily. "Oh no… Doesn't she remember what happened to Fen…"

She was just getting p.i.s.sed off when she saw Erlan limping in her direction. She knew clearly about Erlan's feelings for Tang Yin, and was the reason why Erlan never crossed any lines in his attempts to chase Tang Yin.

After all, the girl was an absolute tigress, waving a butcher knife about all the time! She wasn't someone Erlan wanted to mess with.

"Li Erlan, what're you doing fidgeting over there? Are you itching? Maybe I can help ma.s.sage you a bit?" Xinwen said, venting her anger on the man.

"Nono! It's nothing, Wen Sis! I tripped and fell, that's all……" Erlan said, shaking his head quickly- he was way too unlucky today, b.u.mping into Xinwen of all people right after getting bullied by Lin Yi.

This had to reach Master Bin's ears- he needed to show the guy what he was made of! As for Liu Xinwen… She wouldn't be a problem any longer, as soon as he established a proper connection with Master BIn.

"Stop the car? You're not going to school?" Lin Yi asked, wondering what the girl was saying.

"I am, but I can't let anyone see me with you! You gotta let me off!" Tang Yin panicked- she couldn't just open the car doors when Lin Yi was driving, after all.

"I have something to do this morning, so I'm not going to school- I'll drop you off at the food street." Lin Yi said with a smile. "That should be okay, right?"

"You… How can you……" Tang Yin stammered as she tried to find a retort, glaring at Lin Yi all the while. Her relations.h.i.+p was getting extremely muddy and complicated with Lin Yi ever since the first day they'd met.

"I don't know if you believe it, but I was really just pa.s.sing by." Lin Yi shrugged.

Tang Yin, of course, didn't believe that claim in the slightest- it'd be too many coincidences! They just happened to meet each other out of chance yesterday as well!

With that, Tang Yin curled her lips in silence. She didn't have anything to argue against Lin Yi with, and it was all she could do to sit in her seat, p.i.s.sed as she tried her best to look at anything other than Lin Yi.

"Yesterday… Were you the one who started it?" Tang Yin asked, suddenly remembering the question she wanted to ask him as she looked out the window.

"Yesterday?" Lin Yi blinked, looking at Tang Yin curiously. "What happened yesterday?"

"You……" Tang Yin wasn't sure if Lin Yi was playing dumb, but explained through gritted teeth all the same. "The love letter you wrote me……"

"Love letter??" Lin Yi blinked again, remembering the rumors going around at school. He smiled bitterly. "You think I'm that kind of guy? I wouldn't even need to start any rumors if I wanted to chase you, right?"

"Uh……"

Lin Yi was being quite shameless, but the guy was right- Lin Yi had no need for that, and Tang Yin decided to believe his words after some thought. After all, the guy had completely persuaded her mother that he was a really nice guy, who was dying to get Tang Yin to be friends with him. There was no motive whatsoever for Lin Yi to be starting rumors, but that just infuriated Tang Yin even more.

"Maybe someone who saw us misunderstood." Lin Yi said. G.o.d, me starting rumors… There's still those two ladies back home to deal with! One of them even got p.i.s.sed at me.

"Oh……" Tang Yin responded softly, curling her lips. "Then…. Don't come looking for me all the time….. People will think something's up……"

"Ah… I honestly just pa.s.sed by.." Lin Yi said helplessly, finding it hard to explain as well- they really were coincidences…

Tang Yin put her chin on her palm, quietly looking out the window as she stopped paying attention to Lin Yi. They reached the food street a while later, and Lin Yi parked the car before unlocking the doors.