"Hey? Bro, what do you mean by that?!"
Li Ning stood up abruptly; his tall stature was quite imposing, and Zheng Xin looked like a little chick next to him.
"I tease you because I like you. I like you too. How about I tease you a little too? Like, like?"
Xu Milu pulled Li Ning along:
"Don't bother with this kind of person. I got my revenge in high school. No matter how many times he bullied me, I bullied him back every single time. Thinking about it now, it's actually quite interesting."
She gave a smile that could only be described as "malicious": "Right, Zheng Xin?"
This is fucking interesting.
Zheng Xin suddenly became enraged, perhaps because Li Ning suppressed his strength, he turned his anger on Xu Milu, who seemed even "weaker":
"Are you crazy?! You're not leaving until you explain yourself!"
He grabbed the briefcase from Xu Milu's hand and held on tightly. Zhou Qing and Chen Jiajia, who had been watching the commotion, rushed over as soon as they saw something was wrong.
"What's going on?"
"Zheng Xin, what are you doing!"
Ignoring the crowd of onlookers gathered around him, Zheng Xin shouted urgently:
"You two stay out of my way! I'll kill her today, or I'm not a Zheng!"
Xu Milu, carrying the suitcase, said meaningfully:
"This is robbery! You're facing a penalty of three to ten years. Have you thought it through?"
Seeing that more and more people were gathering, Chen Jiajia was afraid of losing face, so she quickly stopped Xu Milu: "We are all old classmates, what's going on? Can't we talk properly? What robbery? It's so embarrassing if word gets out."
"That's right, Xu Milu, don't think that just because you have some money now you can spout off about literature. So what if you're studying law? Do you think I'm uneducated? It's just a broken box, so what if we rob it?!"
Zhou Qing, hands on her hips, urged Zheng Xin, "Ignore her, she's just trying to scare you!"
"Whether I'm just trying to scare you or not, you'll find out once you try. I just want to ask, are you really going to steal this box?"
Xu Milu gave her a disdainful look: "It's not that I look down on you, but do you dare touch this box?"
Driven to rage, Zheng Xin snatched the box from Xu Milu's hand and said defiantly:
"If you don't explain yourself clearly today, you can forget about getting this box. You want to steal it? Fine, I'll just take it. What are you going to do about it?"
He even maliciously opened the combination lock and randomly pressed a few keys as if in a show of defiance, while Zhou Qing looked on with a smug expression:
"Yeah, it's just a broken box, who are you trying to scare?"
"I'm not kidding you."
Xu Milu's phone vibrated twice, indicating that she had entered the wrong combination lock password three times in a row and could try again in an hour. Jin Buhuan, who had just left, called shortly afterward.
[Ms. Xu, are you alright? I received a message saying, is the seed file okay?]
"It seems something's happened. Someone stole the combination lock box, so I might have to trouble you to come over again."
Xu Milu smiled, showing no sign of panic, while Chen Jiajia was a little frightened.
"She can't be telling the truth, can she? Zheng Xin, you should return the box right away."
Zheng Xin was in a fit of rage and wouldn't listen to anything. Although he felt a little guilty, he still stubbornly retorted:
"They're all old classmates, would she really dare to call the police? Besides, the police wouldn't care anyway—"
"Drip—woo~~ drip—woo~~ drip—woo~~"
Before he could finish speaking, a sharp, urgent siren blared, and two groups of people rushed into the hotel lobby.
One group consisted of police officers in uniform, while the other group was Jin Buhuan, who had returned after leaving.
He spotted Zheng Xin carrying a suitcase in the crowd at a glance, his face turned pale, and his voice trembled slightly:
"Officer! It's that box. Our company has a three million yuan insurance policy on it. We now suspect that this gentleman deliberately damaged private property in an attempt to steal my driver's secrets!"
This shout was a godsend; a roar erupted from the crowd, and the murmurs nearly shook the entire hall.
Holy crap! Is this for real?
"A million-dollar insurance policy! What is that?!"
"That's exciting! Someone actually dared to rob us!!"
Seeing so many police officers, Zheng Xin realized it wasn't a fake operation and tossed the box away like it was a hot potato.
"Xu Milu, are you sick in the head?! Why are you calling the police?! Can't I even joke with you?!"
Xu Milu reached out and firmly hugged the box:
“I’m not kidding. These are new seeds from Honghe Research Institute that haven’t been released to the market yet. They’ve already taken out a million-dollar insurance policy on this batch of seeds. Now you’d better tell me the truth. I don’t know what they’ll use to sue the three of you, but you’re definitely going to get fifteen days of administrative detention.”
She smiled very kindly: "Oh dear, not only can I not attend the class reunion, but the three of you can't either. Your parents didn't teach you what a joke is, or what bullying is, but society will teach you."
Zhou Qing was truly terrified this time. Her legs went weak and she sat down on the ground. Zheng Xin and Chen Jiajia's faces were blank, completely devoid of their previous ease.
No matter how much they try to comfort themselves, they can't bury their heads in the sand and say that everything is alright.
A new variety from the Honghe Research Institute!
This is really the end.
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