What do you mean by that?
Mu Yiran walked out from behind Shi Youxi. When the lawyer saw her, a hint of frivolity flashed in his eyes.
"Excuse me, may I ask who you are?"
The man spoke casually, as if blaming Mu Yiran for interrupting his conversation with Shi Youxi.
“I am Shi Youxi’s guardian,”
Mu Yiran grabbed Shi Youxi's hand, which was about to be raised, and said coldly, "You even have to ask this? Is Mo Sheng so stingy that he can't even afford a lawyer and has to send a security guard here to play dumb?"
The man's face instantly darkened. "You!"
"If you can't speak properly, then get out!" Shi Youxi couldn't contain his anger.
Suddenly, another, taller, middle-aged man walked up from the side, bent down, and pulled the young lawyer behind him.
"I'm sorry, Madam Shi, I'm sorry, Young Master Shi."
"The new guy is inconsiderate and doesn't know his place. I apologize to you both on his behalf. He'll definitely..."
Before the man could finish speaking, the young man who had been pulled to the back pushed forward with his chin raised.
"Wu Li, who asked you to apologize for me!"
"Lin Zhiting, stop messing around!"
Lin Zhiting scoffed, "Believe it or not, I'll have my aunt kick you out right now?"
Wu Li's lips twitched a few times, then he shook his head and stepped aside.
Lin Zhiting straightened his collar smugly, turned to look at Cheng Ran with a smile.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Shi, I just returned to the country and I really don't know who you are. My aunt, who is also the Third Young Master's mother, specifically instructed me to find out who harmed my young master, so please tell the truth, Young Master Shi, and let's settle this privately—"
Regardless of which royal relative this person was, Mu Yiran interrupted him.
"Is there any evidence?"
"What evidence do we need? My young master said—"
Mu Yiran sneered: "So you're the only one with a young master?"
Lin Zhiting didn't want to talk to someone who didn't understand the law, and said impatiently, "There are two other victims over there who both said that Shi Youxi was the one who drugged you. What's the point of making excuses? Wouldn't it be easier to just admit it? Why did you have to make us call the police?"
"Okay, call the police."
Lin Zhiting was taken aback. "What?"
Ai Ni, who had been silent behind him, suddenly spoke up, "Madam, the police are here."
She was still holding her phone.
The wife had already told her to call the police when the two men were arguing about who was the boss.
Two plainclothes policemen walked into the concert hall.
Mu Yiran turned her head and said, "Long time no see, Officer Liu."
It was the same police officer who had previously taken charge of Andrei's fall injury.
Andrei's case was ultimately ruled an accidental fall due to insufficient evidence. He is still in the hospital.
Officer Liu, who knew some of the inside information, glanced at Shi Youxi, who had a cold expression on his face.
"..."
He didn't really want to meet.
"Uh, who called the police?"
Mu Yiran: "Me."
"No, who gave you permission to call the police?"
Lin Zhiting was flustered by the sudden appearance of the police, and his aunt specifically told him not to call the police!
Just as the Third Young Master said, Cheng Ran is indeed ungrateful!
They didn't appreciate the opportunity they were given!
Mu Yiran and the other two ignored him and quickly explained the incident to the police. Lin Zhiting tried to come up, but Ai Ni pushed him against the wall.
This woman was incredibly strong; Lin Zhiting felt like his shoulder was about to break. He gritted his teeth and said, "What else is there to say! Both girls identified Shi Youxi as the one who drugged us. Our Third Young Master is also a victim!"
"Who is the victim and who is the suspect is something that our police will determine after investigation."
"Which police station are you from! Don't you know who our Third Young Master is before you dare to investigate me like this!"
"Liu Yi, Criminal Investigation Division, Third Branch of the Beijing Public Security Bureau."
Liu Yi waved the booklet impatiently, completely disregarding Lin Zhiting's threat.
Just kidding, everyone has some status, really.
Liu Yi arrived at the dressing room and was about to push the door open when he faintly heard moans and sounds of collisions coming from inside.
Everyone: "..."
Mu Yiran suddenly remembered that when Mo Sheng and his lawyers came, they seemed to have a woman with them.
Wu Li stood in front, looking embarrassed.
"That... was voluntary; the doctor said the medication could only be administered this way."
Liu Yi had seen it all before, so he calmly turned around and went into another dressing room.
Inside, Chen Tingting was sobbing, and behind her stood a woman who looked like a secretary, whispering something.
"I'll ask you a few simple questions. Please cooperate, Chen, so we don't have to go to the police station later."
The woman clearly hadn't expected the police to arrive, and looked at Wu Li and Lin Zhiting with displeasure.
Wu Li shook his head secretly.
Lin Zhiting... was still blocked outside the door by Ai Ni.
"Chen, why did you go to that dressing room?"
Chen Tingting wiped away her tears and glanced at Shi Youxi, who was also waiting on the side. The boy's eyes were cold and aloof, and the gaze he cast at her made her tremble involuntarily.
The control unit is still stuck with a virus. All the surveillance footage from backstage of the concert hall has been wiped.
Before the police arrived, Mo Yifan's men had already cleaned up all the traces, but they still hadn't found out who had projected the video onto the screen.
Remembering what her secretary had told her, as long as she insisted that Shi Youxi had given her the drug, she would be an innocent victim, and the Mo family would agree to the marriage alliance with the Chen family.
Although Chen Tingting already felt utterly disgusted with Mo Yifan, ironically, this was the only way she could protect her own and the Chen family's reputation.
"Yu Ning asked me to come over," Chen Tingting said, steadying her breathing.
"She said Shi Youxi asked to meet her in the dressing room, but because Shi Youxi had been targeting her all day, she was scared and asked me to come with her. As soon as I went in, I saw Mo Yifan..."
"So you're saying you didn't see that it was Shi Youxi who administered the drug?"
Chen Tingting froze, involuntarily glancing at Shi Youxi before quickly looking away, her voice extremely tense, "I don't know, it was all Bai Yuning who said it. She kept calling Shi Youxi's name, I don't know anything!"
No matter what Liu Yi asked, Chen Tingting said she didn't know; her emotions were extremely unstable.
Chen Yi had no choice but to go to another room.
Bai Yuning didn't cry or make a scene. Instead, she sat quietly inside, accompanied by Jia Jingwen and Lin Zhi, the student council vice president who was forced to stay and pretend to help take care of people.
"I said it! I want my dad. I don't want to say anything unless my dad comes!"
“Your father is currently on a business trip in another province and won’t be back for a while.”
Bai Yuning suddenly looked up and saw Shi Youxi and Cheng Ran walking in together. For a moment, her pained face twisted in agony.
"Senior! What did I do to deserve this?!"
Bai Yuning's tears came suddenly; her eyes were blurry with tears, and large drops streamed down her face.
"You were the one who said you needed to meet me! I trusted you so much that I went to the dressing room!"
"I don't know what I did wrong to upset you, but you shouldn't have drugged me!"
Lin Zhi, standing to the side, couldn't help but speak up: "Bai Yuning, don't throw mud at us! Senior and Sister Cheng aren't like that!"
Bai Yuning sobbed as she looked at Cheng Ran, who was frowning, and suddenly lunged at her.
Mu Yiran's eyelids twitched, and the next second she was blocked behind Shi Youxi.
She coldly watched as Bai Yuning knelt on the ground, the poor fly rubbing its hands and begging for mercy.
"Aunt Cheng, it's all my fault. I apologize. I shouldn't have accepted the senior's invitation to dance! I shouldn't have talked to the senior. It's all my fault!"
Liu Yi: "You mean, Cheng Ran instructed Shi Youxi to drug you?"
"Auntie, I'm so sorry, it's all my fault!"
Bai Yuning didn't answer, but instead kept apologizing to Cheng Ran pitifully and sorrowfully.
Alyssa Chia helped her up: "Yu Ning, don't be afraid, Aunt Cheng. No matter what Yu Ning's relationship with Shi Youxi is like, you shouldn't take your anger out on Yu Ning! It was clearly Shi Youxi who kept asking Yu Ning out!"
"Should I call you first?"
Shi Youxi said calmly, looking at Bai Yuning with a cold smile.
Bai Yuning's tone suddenly panicked; she was truly furious with Jia Jingwen, that idiot!
"Isn't it obvious! It must be Madam Shi who looked down on her for being with her stepson, so she instructed Shi Youxi to drug her, just to ruin a young girl's reputation!"
Lin Zhiting sneered as he pulled out his phone, which contained a surveillance video. "Police officer, look! Even before this incident happened, Madam Shi had already been making things difficult for this student, Bai. Other students who went to the restroom also saw it!"
In the surveillance footage, at the bathroom door, Bai Yuning bent down to apologize to Cheng Ran, and then Cheng Ran pulled Bai Yuning deeper into the backstage area.
Anyone who saw it would think that Cheng Ran was bullying a female student.
Liu Yi glanced at the video a few times, his heart pounding. "Mrs. Shi, do you want to explain this?"
"What's there to explain! Isn't it perfectly clear already!"
Lin Zhiting then opened another video, which was the surveillance footage from the concert hall stage.
"Not long after you took Bai Yuning away, Madam Shi, you went backstage with a wine glass."
"The timing of your departures, one after the other, is so coincidental. And your return was also one after the other. Isn't it obvious what you did during that time?"
“You’ve done quite a lot of surveillance,” Mu Yiran laughed. “Why is it that there’s no surveillance after these?”
Bai Yuning's face was flushed from crying. She secretly glanced at Lin Zhiting. The Mo family had already made arrangements with her, and all the backstage surveillance footage was gone.
"You said Xiao Xi asked you to go to the dressing room, do you have any proof?"
"My senior sent me a WeChat message, telling me to go alone and not to tell anyone, and also to delete the message."
“The chat history can be recovered.” Liu Yi instructed another technical officer to operate Shi Youxi’s phone.
A glint of light flashed in Bai Yuning's eyes.
Chat logs can be recovered, but messages that are not present will not be recovered even if they are.
So she couldn't find anything by checking Shi Youxi's phone. She just had to insist that her phone was lost. Unless Shi Youxi could prove that he left the stage to do something else, he would have no choice but to acknowledge him and come looking for her.
Suddenly.
Bai Yuning suddenly realized that something was wrong.
If there were no other chat logs on Shi Youxi's phone, then how did Mo Yifan manage to trick Shi Youxi into coming out?
But before she could think, she heard Cheng Ran chuckle.
"You really are pretty stupid."
"What?"
"Mrs. Shi, are you now using this overwhelming evidence to threaten and intimidate a female student?"
"Is the evidence conclusive?" Mu Yiran raised her wrist, her sleeve slipped down, revealing a digital watch that reflected a dim light.
Bai Yuning's pupils dilated suddenly. How come she didn't see that Mu Yiran was wearing such a large digital watch?
“If you’re talking about Xiao Xi coming to see you, that’s a lie.” Mu Yiran tapped her digital watch a few times.
“I do have solid evidence.”
The next second, the digital watch emitted a sound.
—"Smack!"
"I'll give you a chance to open the door, or I'll call the police."
"Auntie, how are you going to make a call if you didn't even bring your cell phone..."
Bai Yuning froze, making a move she hadn't expected. She lunged forward to grab the digital watch, but the next instant, she was kicked hard in the side and fell backward onto her buttocks.
With this fall, her phone, hidden in the lining of her puffy skirt, came out and landed right at the feet of Lin Zhi, who was engrossed in watching the show.
Bai Yuning and several of Mo Sheng's lawyers were stunned at the same time.
Lin Zhiting was even more furious.
Didn't they say it was hidden well?!
Lin Zhi froze for a moment, and before Bai Yuning could reach out, she stomped on her foot.
"ah!"
"Hey, didn't you say you lost your phone? How come it's still on you!"
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