The rest of the week went by and Bai Lianhua was suffering from the horror that is called middle school. She was an art major - specifically fashion and all the maths and science was giving her a massive headache. The worst thing is that Hu Lianhua was a genuine genius at maths. Bai Lianhua's intelligence was calculated at 4! She was even worse than a normal human being! "System, you're pitting me! How can l with a measly level 4 intelligence attempt to mimic a level 50 - 60 genius? My character is going to collapse."
In the class, the teacher announced a surprise maths test and Bai Lianhua felt the malice of this world clearly. When the test paper was in front of her, all she could were maths symbols swimming around. The only relief was that the test was multiple choice so she cleverly guessed that all the answers were C and only chose option C. When she reached the last question, she decided to play around and picked A. She then handed in the test early, picked her bag and walked out of the class. The rest of the students looked on enviously and then continued struggling. She sympathised with them seriously but there was nothing she could do.
This time, both her parents were working overtime so she would have to walk back home from school. The school was only about 40 minutes from her house if she walked. She walked slowly enjoying the sights of the bustling city and suddenly missed her own world. She wondered how her family was doing.
"Ha! They don't care about you! Why do you care?" Her eyes reddened and she continued walking. Her whole profile looked sad and decadent and it made her look even prettier. She turned at a corner and almost bumped into some gangsters. Her heart jumped and she stealthily dialled 110.
The gangsters all winked at each other. They thought they were doing it stealthily and that they looked cool but all Bai Lianhua could see were a bunch of guys enduring eye cramps and twitches. She wanted to laugh but she thought about her death so she couldn't really laugh anymore. She sidestepped them and wanted to leave but one of the men grabbed her hand. "Did any of us say you could leave?" She rolled her eyes wondering why everyone who troubled her asked this question. It was like they were reciting lines!
"Mister, l don't know you, can you let me go please!"
"Heh...pretty girl, come and spend a night with this uncle. It will be fun." The man drooled and wriggled his eyebrows. Bai Lianhua lifted the phone and shouted: "Hello! Police! These men want to abduct me and have xxx with me! Please come quickly!"
"Someone cut the call!" Bai Lianhua kicked the man holding her hand in the balls and then ran away quickly. "After her!!"
Onlookers saw a funny picture - about 9 to 10 men ran after a small middle school girl. The girl was shouting for help and that these men wanted to xx her. Some concerned parents made a phone call to the police to report! After about seven minutes, everyone heard the sound of the police cars. So now Bai Lianhua was running in the front with the gangsters behind her and the police at the very back.
"Stop running and put your hands up! If you don't surrender, we will shoot to incapacitate you!"
The gangsters performed the 'you look at me and l look at you' play before surrendering and kneeling down. No one wanted to be shot because that would definitely hurt. Don't look at these gangsters like they are frauds - they are the ones who are most afraid of pain. Bai Lianhua also stopped running and she almost collapsed on the dusty road. She could barely hold on because of her lack of physical strength.
The police worked fast and handcuffed everyone. A big police van came and the gangsters were all directed to sit there. A very handsome policeman came to give Bai Lianhua water and she was dazzled, not by beauty but she was literally dazzled. The van's headlights shone directly in her face and she was almost blinded. "Thank you for the water uncle!"
"Do you want to come back with me little girl? Do you know the numbers of your parents? You should tell me so l can call them to accompany you to the station." The policeman smiled and Bai Lianhua told him the numbers.
The next thing she knew, Mom Hu was crying while holding her and Daddy Hu was frowning again. "Daddy, if you keep frowning, you'll age faster than you already are!"
"You cheeky girl!" Hu Peng laughed and all the worries on his face disappeared. His daughter was well enough to crack jokes and that meant she was fine.
The policeman from before brought a pen and paper and Bai Lianhua wrote down all that happened from start to finish. She didn't say anything about Yue Linlan because it was unlikely that the police would do anything to her at this stage - her family would help her to cover it up.
In the car, Daddy Hu was making arrangements to have a bodyguard follow Bai Lianhua. He also contacted the school to say what happened and then contacted a psychologist to make sure his daughter would not have any lasting mental scars from this experience. He didn't want a crazy daughter - that would make him lose face. Mom Hu was the one driving but she didn't forget to engage Bai Lianhua in conversation to try and distract her.
When she got back home, Bai Lianhua quickly pulled up the recordings from the surveillance and got shocked.
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Yue Linlan called a number in the toilet in the afternoon and then directed them to kidnap and xx Bai Lianhua. She was very generous and promised them $20,000 in cash for their cooperation.
[Bai Lianhua was annoyed to the maximum: "She could have given me the $20,000 and l would promise never to appear in front of them ever again!" She thought about it more and then laughed at herself: "It's supposed to be the mother to the male lead that slaps out checks of $1 million to separate the male lead from the female lead not the supporting female!"
She saved that recording into a file and then continued watching.]
On Wu Chenren's side, he also called a suspicious number just after Yue Lianhua and he was hiding behind the oak tree just outside the school. He also paid some gangsters to direct a play of where he was the hero in the end. What shocked Bai Lianhua was that Wu Chenren contacted the same gangsters that Yue Linlan contacted. He even paid more than Yue Linlan for this matter.
["Hey! I actually lost $90,000! These people are way too generous when pursuing love. I can barely spend $50 on myself let alone an illusory thing called love."]
Wu Chenren then went to the appointed place to act but found that none of the crew appeared at all. He waited there for almost three hours before he walked away in anger. When he reached home, he immediately called a contact in the police and found out what happened. He then told that contact to fabricate some more things and keep those gangsters in jail.
["Is this the little brother that confessed to me? Clearly, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing! It is even more laughable that those two both contacted the same gangsters haha!]
Wu Chenren then cut the call and talked about his plan. Apparently, he was using Hu Lianhua as a pawn in his master plan. He neither cared for her nor loved her but wanted to use her to deal with Yue Linlan. The whole scene was a bit scary seeing as Wu Chenren was standing in the dark and confessing his future plans like as if he was a villain. "Tch! Who wants to even be near that peasant? I already have a lover and l'm planning to get married to her. I know that Yue Linlan won't give up so l am pretending to like her twin sister. She will definitely do some extreme things and then l can collect evidence and put her in jail."
["Isn't this my plan? What the heck! This guy was hiding too deeply that neither sister knew a thing. They all thought that the other was their enemy but really this guy was the mastermind behind the scenes." Bai Lianhua's mouth was open so wide because she really couldn't believe it and she almost chocked on her saliva. She quickly went through the original owner's memory and then compared the wedding photos to the young Yue Linlan. The woman in the photo looked similar to Yue Linlan but there were clear differences. For example, Yue Linlan had brown eyes and her mouth and nose were small. In contrast, the woman in the picture had plump lips and darker coloured eyes.
This needed more investigation because if it turns out that Yue Linlan never married Wu Chenren, then who is this?? And who is the girlfriend that Wu Chenren is seeing at the moment?
"What should l do?"]