Xie Li immediately understood upon seeing this situation; it seemed that all the things Zhang Jingyang had done had been uncovered by the police.

She stopped calmly: "You've asked the wrong person."

Given the heinous nature of Zhang Jingyang's actions, Luo Feifei's family alone would never forgive him.

Mrs. Zhang: "No! It's my fault. We shouldn't have provoked you... Please, I already apologized when you asked me to, so why won't you let my son go?"

Xie Li: "It's not that I'm not letting your son go, ma'am, but let's get this straight, one thing at a time. Your son was taken away by the police because he broke the law, what does that have to do with me?"

"Auntie?" Madam Zhang's lips twitched violently, and her expression immediately turned rather unpleasant.

But she suppressed her anger and swallowed her pride: "You are the eldest daughter of Zhenye Group. The police can be dealt with by a single word from you."

She has been running around trying to help her son these past few days, but this time no matter how much she begged, it was no use.

Her old connections were no longer effective; everyone avoided her like the plague, let alone offered any help to her son.

Mrs. Zhang couldn't understand why children's pranks had to be taken so seriously, to the point of calling the police.

How could Xie Li, a young girl, be so vicious and deliberately try to destroy her son?

Xie Li was baffled: "What Zhenye Group? No, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. This is a society governed by law. No one can cover up everything."

She can't take the blame for this. She's just an ordinary person who abides by the law, with no powerful connections or background, and she would never challenge the authority and impartiality of public power.

"You're lying!" Madam Zhang refused to believe it. "If it weren't for the pressure from Zhenye Group, why wouldn't they make an exception for me?"

Mrs. Zhang was extremely flustered. After so many years as a wealthy socialite, she had often acted arrogantly and domineeringly, but this was the first time she had discovered that connections within a wealthy family weren't so easy to use.

The only explanation is that there are even more powerful connections interfering.

Xie Li thought for a moment and pointed to the area diagonally opposite the school.

"Auntie, look over there, yes, a little ahead, see those four big characters for 'Combating Organized Crime and Eliminating Evil'?"

Xie Li calmly said, "Now you know why your connections aren't working anymore, right? Why can't you just be an ordinary person? Why do you have to be the one doing the dirty work and being evil?"

Madam Zhang's face was contorted with anger; she gripped her handkerchief tightly, almost bursting into a tirade.

But she remembered Xu Zhen's warning and dared not act rashly.

Xie Li felt he had made things clear and had no intention of getting entangled with Madam Zhang any further, so he turned around and prepared to leave.

But before she had taken more than a few steps, she heard a "thump," "Miss Xie Li!"

A chorus of exclamations erupted from the surrounding area.

It was such a rare sight to see a middle-aged man dressed in a butler's uniform, exuding manners, kneeling before a young girl.

The onlookers couldn't help but turn around and take a look.

Xie Li turned his head and looked expressionlessly at Butler Zhang kneeling on the ground.

She really, really hates it when people kneel down to her.

But a smug smile flashed in Butler Zhang's eyes as he lowered his head, tears streaming down his face. "Miss Xie Li, please, please spare our young master! I... I'll kowtow to you!"

He kowtowed twice, looking utterly miserable.

"We shouldn't have come to cause you trouble yesterday because the young master was beaten. We can't afford to offend Zhenye Group, and we certainly can't afford to offend you..."