Jiang Yao bit her lip tightly, trying her best to turn her body away, letting her hair fall down so he couldn't see her face.
"No need," she said softly. "I was just unlucky today... running into these two jinxes!"
"What did you say?" Lin Yuqing raised her voice, and Jiang Yao immediately shrank back.
As she walked along the wall to the outside, she spat viciously:
"Jiang Can, you just wait! If you're so capable, you can stay here and guard this shabby shop every day, otherwise one day I'll smash it to pieces!"
Just as Lin Yuqing was about to step forward, Jiang Can grabbed her hand tightly.
"Never mind." Lu Lishan righted the overturned stool and sat down, leisurely fiddling with his cufflinks, looking at the two of them with a half-smile, "If a dog bites you, are you really going to bite it back?"
"Mind your own business!" Lin Yuqing vented all her anger on him.
This shout sent shivers down Lu Lishan's spine.
In a daze, he returned to those youthful days, to the season when the grass grew and the birds sang.
The willful and capricious girl beside him had yelled at him like that before, but he loved hearing her yell. No matter how unreasonable she was, he would just smile at her.
He hasn't laughed like that since he went to jail.
But tonight, as he looked at her, at her flushed face, at how she would go to great lengths for her friends.
He suddenly wanted to laugh again.
“Miss,” Lu Lishan said with a slight smile, “you’re really not good. The most important virtues for a woman are gentleness and virtue. With you acting so crazy, what man would want you?”
"Learn from how your friend treats her husband!"
Lin Yuqing's expression changed, and she turned to look at him, her cold, star-like eyes meeting his gaze.
“Sir,” she said in the same tone, enunciating clearly, “the most important quality of a man is that his word is his bond. What woman would dare to be with someone who goes back on their word like some others?”
"Learn from how your cellmate treats his wife!"
Lu Lishan's eyes darkened slightly.
"Lin Yuqing, are you trying to teach me how to be a decent human being?"
"Oh, that's really something!" Lin Yuqing sneered. "You finally remembered my name!"
Lu Lishan's expression gradually became serious, and the room seemed to enter a vacuum, the silence unsettling.
"Um...why don't you two sit for a while?" Jiang Can asked softly. "I'll make you some coffee..."
"No need!" The two were perfectly in sync this time.
Jiang Can was in a difficult position, so she could only nod awkwardly.
Lin Yuqing asked Jiang Can to lock the shop door, and then she would accompany her home to discuss how to resolve the current predicament.
Lu Lishan knew she was telling him to leave, so he stood up and strode away, his figure quickly disappearing into the twilight.
The scenery outside the car window rushed past, and the sunset glow dyed the earth a golden red.
Lu Lishan pinched his chin with one hand, his brows furrowed, his mind filled with a myriad of thoughts.
"Brother Shan, what's wrong?" his subordinate asked with concern.
“It’s nothing.” Lu Lishan paused, “The woman in the shop just now…”
"You mean that Miss Jiang?"
"You know him?"
His subordinate laughed, "Brother Shan, isn't that the guy who often comes to Nightclub for drinks?"
Lu Lishan was slightly taken aback.
Nightclub is a business operating in a gray area, but it is also the most popular nightclub under his management.
Many young men from prominent families and daughters of wealthy families in Jiangzhou frequently visited this place, using it as an outlet for their emotions.
It turns out that Jiang Yao was one of them.
A spoiled heiress, always competitive, would get drunk at night when she was unhappy.
"Brother Shan," his subordinate chuckled dismissively, "I heard that Miss Jiang is quite the ladies' man!"
"Really?" Lu Lishan laughed as well. "How do we open it?"
"I don't know about that. You'll have to ask those handsome young men who work hard in nightclubs! Haha..."
Lu Lishan's eyes darkened. Although he was smiling, there was a chill in his eyes and brows.
...
A few days later, Jiang Yao was thrown into a small dark room in Yehehuan.
At first, she was very arrogant, acting crazy and shouting under the influence of alcohol.
"Who are you? How dare you kidnap me! I'm a VIP guest here, are you all blind?!"
"Of course I know you are our VIP guest." Suddenly, a clear, cold voice came from behind.
The room gradually brightened, and the man sitting in the center exuded a fierce aura, with sharp eyes and a prominent scar between his eyebrows.
Jiang Yao's heart skipped a beat, and she gasped.
“Miss Jiang,” Lu Lishan said with a cold laugh, “even VIP guests of a higher rank than you wouldn’t dare to yell at me like that!”
Jiang Yao knew Lu Lishan was ruthless; she had recognized him at Jiang Can's coffee shop that day.
But she didn't understand what the relationship was between Lu Lishan and Jiang Can.
"Why...why did you lock me up here?" Jiang Yao's voice trembled. "I'm a customer here, and I always tip double when I drink! What right do you have to arrest me!"
Lu Lishan clapped his hands, and several surveillance videos immediately appeared on the floor-standing projection screen in front of Jiang Yao.
These were all images of her drinking and indulging in revelry at Yehehuan.
In public, the well-behaved heiress of the Jiang family behaves recklessly in nightclubs, wearing a sundress and opening bottles of wine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars like they're bottles of cola.
Jiang Yao instantly felt a chill creep up her spine, sobering her up considerably. She slumped to the ground, staring at him.
"What...what exactly do you want?"
"Heh." Lu Lishan pressed the pause button; the scene before him was unbearable to look at.
"Miss Jiang, I just want to know, if your father saw his precious daughter drinking and doing drugs here, would he still have high hopes for you?"
"No!" Jiang Yao trembled with fear.
"I'll do anything you want, just don't tell my dad! He'll beat me to death... I'll die a horrible death!"
"You really can do anything?"
Jiang Yao nodded repeatedly.
"Actually, I don't have any other requests. I just hope that Ms. Jiang will stop causing trouble at my friend's coffee shop."
Jiang Yao was stunned for a long time, trying her best to sort out some thoughts from her chaotic mind, "Jiang Can... is your friend?"
Lu Lishan looked at her coldly, "Just do as I say."
The thought of this woman fighting with Lin Yuqing that day made him want to punch her.
Lu Lishan clasped his hands behind his back and clenched his fists tightly.
"Furthermore, there are many negative comments about the coffee shop online, which has already had a very bad impact."
"No, it wasn't me..."
"I don't care if it's you or not," Lu Lishan sneered, "Go and erase this influence!"
"Do you need me to teach you how to eliminate the negative impact?"
Jiang Yao shook her head vigorously, just wanting to get away as soon as possible.
For those few days, Jiang Yao stayed locked in her room, wondering how she had previously instructed online trolls to leave malicious negative reviews, and now she had paid the same price to get them to give her five-star reviews.
Purple Iris's reputation gradually improved, but Lu Lishan still privately sent the video screenshots to her phone.
Jiang Yao's heart nearly jumped out of her mouth.
"Lu Lishan... what else do you want to do?"
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