"Xiao Yan." Zhou Yunan looked at her affectionately, "I won't take your money, and you don't need to argue with your brother for my sake. I'm a man, and no matter how hard it is, I'll bear it all myself."

He stretched out his hand, his eyes filled with self-satisfaction: "All you need to do is give me your hand, and I can build an empire for you with these two hands."

Bai Yan: ……

The sudden ringing of her cell phone saved her life; she immediately answered the call.

"What, did I interrupt your date?" Bai Yan could hear the jealousy in his voice even through the phone.

"No, Mr. Zhou, I'm very happy to receive your call." She was happy in every way.

Qin Lang's frustration eased slightly, and he said, "The police just caught a thief at the hotel. She went to your room and stole a jade bracelet from your velvet box. Would you like to take a look?"

“She’s your roommate,” Qin Lang added.

Zhou Yunan, standing to the side, stared at Bai Yan making a phone call with a somewhat displeased expression: "Mr. Zhou? Which Mr. Zhou? He knows all of Bai Yan's friends, except for that adopted younger brother, none of them have the surname Zhou."

"I'll be right there, thank you, Mr. Zhou." After thanking him, Bai Yan hung up the phone.

"Who is Mr. Zhou?" Zhou Yunan asked impatiently, looking at Bai Yan with a suspicious gaze.

Bai Yan said, "It's an investor I just met. He said on the phone that my jade bracelet is missing, and it seems to be related to Lin Rou. She's been temporarily arrested, and I need to go to the police station as soon as possible."

He then smiled and invited, "Would you like to come with me?"

Lin Rou? Jade bracelet?

He couldn't get the jade bracelet from Bai Yan, so Lin Rou stole it? What was she doing?

Zhou Yunan's heart sank. He had initially thought that Lin Rou wanted the jade bracelet just to seek psychological stimulation and stir up emotions, but now it seemed that wasn't the case... What was she planning to do? To harm him?

"I won't go."

Zhou Yunan was afraid that Lin Rou would reveal their affair under these circumstances, so he dared not go.

He then added, "She's your roommate and your best friend. There's probably some misunderstanding. I'm afraid my presence might affect your relationship. You should handle your own private matters."

"Fine." Bai Yan curled her lips in a mocking smile and quickly left.

...

At that time, the jade bracelet had already been found in Lin Rou's backpack inside the police station.

Although the hotel's surveillance cameras were inexplicably broken, the stolen goods were still there, and there was a video taken by Qin Lang, a "passerby," who happened to be "passing by." This was basically enough to secure Lin Rou's conviction for theft.

Now we're just waiting for the owner to come.

Lin Rou sat on a chair to the side with her head down. The silver handcuffs on her wrists had been removed, but the humiliation of being insulted in front of others could not be erased.

She was caught off guard and her hotel security footage was destroyed, but then a random passerby suddenly appeared!

Lin Rou raised her eyes, her sinister gaze falling on Qin Lang. She had made up her mind: she would kill him after the apocalypse!

After noticing her gaze, Qin Lang's eyes suddenly fell on Lin Rou's head, and she quickly lowered her head.

But Qin Lang still caught that fleeting glance.

This wasn't the gaze of an ordinary student; it was more like that of a vicious thug, utterly devoid of any reverence for life.

Just then, Bai Yan arrived.

When Lin Rou looked up and saw Bai Yan's gaze, the feeling of humiliation rushed back to her, giving her an urge to kill!

Her original plan was to wait until the Bai family went bankrupt, and then flaunt in front of Bai Yan that her bracelet had been given to her by Zhou Yunan.

Even though her background wasn't as good as Bai Yan's, she surpassed her in every other aspect. But now, she's the one who's been proven wrong!

The two were sitting in the police station; she was the suspect, and Bai Yan was the victim.

In this second life, she should be the one who is high above and all-powerful. Why should she have to be inferior to Bai Yan?

The police officer handling the case said to Bai Yan, "This Ms. Lin entered the hotel, used her employee card to open the room door, and took a jade bracelet from your room. Do you choose to file a case or mediate?"

After all, the two people were university students, roommates, and it was an attempted theft, so the victim didn't suffer any actual loss.

Lin Rou didn't want to beg Bai Yan for mercy, but the apocalypse was coming soon, and she had many things to do and couldn't waste her time here.

"white……"

“Lin Rou, I know you’re in a terrible situation, and your family is very poor. But just because you’re weak and in a bad situation doesn’t mean you can ignore the law. You have to take responsibility for what happened today,” Bai Yan said.

Lin Rou's face darkened instantly. "Are you trying to send me to jail? Just because I took your jade bracelet?"

How can she be so hypocritical!

Bai Yan shook her head and sighed, "How could that be? Although you made a mistake, we are roommates after all. How could I hold it against you?"

She hadn't forgotten that the original owner's character was a 'saintly mother'.

Furthermore, aside from the 'space' value it carries, this jade bracelet is worthless. Lin Rou is unlikely to go to jail, or even be detained for seven days.

After identifying Lin Rou as their roommate inside the police station and apologizing and seeking reconciliation, they quickly left the station.

Lin Rou's gaze fell on the velvet box containing the jade bracelet in Bai Yan's hand. After this incident, it would probably be even more difficult to get it back.

If Bai Yan didn't have a brother like Bai Yi'an, she really would have liked to kill her silently...

Qin Lang stared coldly at Lin Rou, who felt a chill run down her spine. She glanced at him, but quickly regained her composure: He wasn't one of those powerful figures from the apocalypse. Ha, just bluffing to scare people.

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