“Heh,” Su Ze sneered. “Look at the state we’re both in right now—who has more injuries? Who do you think the police will believe?”
“What do you think~?” Hana’s other hand, the one not pinned under him, gripped a switchblade. She had hidden it up her sleeve earlier.
In an instant, she swung the knife toward Su Ze’s thigh.
Startled, Su Ze released her and staggered backward. Hana sprang to her feet, snatched the stick from the ground, and pounced on him. She knocked him down, and they rolled several times before she deliberately let him end up on top of her.
“Bang!” Hana brought the stick down on Su Ze’s head. His eyes rolled back, and he passed out.
“Woo-woo! Woo-woo!” Sirens approached from the distance.
They were a bit earlier than expected. Hana’s eyes darkened.
“Slap!” She grabbed Su Ze’s hand and smacked it against her own face, delivering a hard blow.
“Slap! Slap!” Several more slaps followed, leaving Hana’s face swollen.
“Hahaha!!” Hana burst into loud laughter. She seized Su Ze’s hand again, tore open her own clothes, and deliberately raked his fingernails across her snow-white skin, leaving bloody scratches.
With the sirens drawing nearer, Hana moved swiftly and yanked down Su Ze’s pants.
Liang Sheng clamped her hands over her eyes. Don’t look where you shouldn’t! Damn, that was an assault on the eyes! She needed to bleach them clean!
Hana shoved Su Ze aside, curled into a ball, and began wailing loudly.
The police heard the crying and rushed over.
“Wah wah wah~~” Hana sobbed pitifully, tears streaming down her face.
Holy hell—even Liang Sheng, watching the video feed, was stunned. This woman was a master!
The police dashed up and immediately pegged the pitifully crying girl on the ground as the victim. They hurried to her side and carried her to the patrol car.
Hana sneaked a smile. Sheng-chan~ Sheng-chan~ Her precious Sheng-chan~ She ought to be thrilled now!
Liang Sheng let out a breath of relief on her end of the video. She had been scared out of her wits. Hana really loved pulling these kill-the-enemy-a-thousand-while-hurting-yourself-eight-hundred stunts.
“Your good son is calling~” Liang Sheng’s phone rang. It was Hana.
“Hello?” Liang Sheng feigned composure, acting like she was clueless.
“Wah! Sheng-chan, I, I, I almost got… wah wah wah, come quick! Sheng-chan! I’m so scared!” Snotty sobs poured from the other end.
The still-unconscious Su Ze mentally protested: Who’s harming whom here, exactly?!
“Eh—!” Liang Sheng pretended to be shocked. “I’m on my way!”
When Liang Sheng arrived at the police station in a frantic rush, she bumped into Hana’s parents right at the entrance.
“Ah! Uncle! Auntie!” Liang Sheng jogged over. “Hana just called me, telling me to come to the station. She was crying so loudly—what happened to her?” She already knew, of course.
Hana’s mother broke into tears at once. “Nana almost got raped!”
“Ah?!” Liang Sheng’s eyes flew wide. “Hana!”
As soon as she stepped inside, she hurried to a policeman and explained that she was there for Hana. He led her to a room where Hana sat crying.
“Hana!” Liang Sheng cried out and dashed over with quick thuds of her footsteps.
Hearing that familiar voice, Hana’s head snapped up. Spotting Liang Sheng was like a child seeing her mother.
“Wah!” Hana pounced like a tiger, tackling Liang Sheng to the ground. She clung to her fiercely and wailed without stopping. “Sheng-chan, I’m so scared! Really, so scared!”
Su Ze, just coming to from his faint: “…”
Hana’s parents burst in at that moment. Her mother saw Hana on the floor, hugging Liang Sheng and bawling hysterically, and promptly started weeping herself. She threw her arms around Hana, and the three women sat there howling together.
The police watched the trio with awkward politeness.
Once the crying subsided, an officer said, “The young lady was too distraught earlier. She couldn’t answer a thing—just sat there shaking.”
Hana’s mother cradled her daughter’s head, tears flowing freely, her eyes brimming with heartache. “My poor Nana must have been terrified by that filthy pervert. My baby girl…”
“Could you calm her down a bit? We need to ask some questions.”
Hana’s mother nodded. “Nana, don’t be afraid, Mommy’s here. Go tell the police uncle what happened. Mommy will make sure he never—”
Before she could finish, Hana’s father nudged her from behind. She clamped her mouth shut.
“Just keep it in your head; no need to voice it,” he whispered in her ear.
Hana cried a little longer, her sobs shifting from breakdowns to quiet sniffles.
“I, I…”
After more back-and-forth, Hana finally steadied herself.
It took nearly two hours of going around in circles, but they managed to record her statement.
Su Ze was a tough case too. He adamantly denied any intent to rape Hana—and truthfully, he hadn’t harbored any such thought.
Of course, in this money-worshipping Mary Sue novel world, there was nothing cash couldn’t fix.
Hana’s family was loaded, swimming in money. Naturally, they threw stacks of bills to bury Su Ze.
And Su Ze? Just a penniless punk with no connections—where was he going to scrape up bail? That was this rotten little world for you: the rich always came out on top.
This was Su Ze’s most crushing defeat—and the worst thrashing he’d taken—since Liang Sheng had transmigrated into the book.
Given his personality, there was no way he’d meekly serve three years behind bars.
The next day, he walked out of jail by begging Lu Ziqing. He owed it to that heroic save of the Lu family young miss; otherwise, he’d have rotted there for three full years.
After this mess, though, the Lus figured they’d done more than enough for him. And with Lu Ziqing’s father never approving of Su Ze in the first place, they politely showed him the door from the Lu family once again.
This time, Su Ze was truly finished at school.
Because of the incident, the current favorabilities were as follows.
“Lu Ziqing’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 52”
“Song An’an’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 36”
“Gu Yuqi’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: –3”
“Hana’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: –100+”
“Zhen Zhu’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 82”
“Bai Zhen’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: –53”
“An Hua’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 17”
“Liang Sheng’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 0”
“Liang Jin’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 27”
“Dong Yue’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 3”
“Mo Qingrou’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 23”
“Ye Yuzhe’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 89”
“Cha Susu’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 65”
“Ou Lu’s Favorability Toward Su Ze: 50”
