Ruan Chen, wearing the mask of a Rakshasa woman, won five consecutive matches, drawing deafening cheers from the audience.
"Emperor Bai Xing! Emperor Bai Xing!"
Tao Zui stood in the work area with her arms crossed, watching with a smile. She hadn't expected that Tao Zui would actually be so capable.
Just then, his phone rang.
He is his friend.
"Hey Tao, even you have your off days? This is just a fake name. What parents would name their child after a demon?"
Tao Zui's handsome face, hidden beneath the jade-faced fox mask, darkened.
When I looked up at the ring again, the figure under the spotlight was gone.
Ruan Chen slept exceptionally well that night, and woke up with a smile on her face.
Life in Jingzhou was truly oppressive.
She simply loved that adrenaline rush, like being back in the rainforest of a deserted island.
In short, she likes to seek thrills.
After Ruan Qin's incident, the program was completely suspended and moved out of Huating Public School.
Double happiness.
She got up early and sat at the table, eating steamed egg custard spoonful by spoonful with a silver spoon. The top button of her clothes was not fastened properly, clearly revealing a large bruise from her collarbone to her shoulder.
"You got into a fight?" Ruan Wenlou placed some liniment on the table, frowning. "He hit you?"
"No," Ruan Chen wiped her mouth, took the ointment and haphazardly applied it, "I went out to play last night—I know what I'm doing, don't worry. I have an exam today, it's at Beijing University of Technology, I really need to pay attention."
The assessment content for the four academies is basically the same, since there has never been a case where a person's name appeared on the assessment lists of three academies before.
The three colleges had actually discussed Ruan Chen's situation with each other, but none of them were willing to release her. In the end, the admissions offices of the three colleges became stubborn and used their own methods to see which college Ruan Chen would choose.
In the afternoon, Ruan Chen strolled back to Qinyuan in the sunset, and Ruan Wenlou didn't even bother to ask his young mistress how the exam went.
Ruan Chen was curled up in bed reading when her phone rang from an unknown number.
"Are you coming again tonight? I'll be running the place again tonight, and I'll arrange a few shows for you."
It was a sound of ecstasy.
There was a great commotion on his end, with people grinding their teeth and twirling the prayer beads in their palms.
At 8 p.m., Ruan Chen arrived as scheduled.
She sat at the bar and ordered herself a glass of orange juice.
When the waiter handed over the orange juice with both hands, he respectfully called her "Sister Bai".
Tao Zui saw her silhouette from afar.
She is very slender and graceful; it's hard to imagine that she could deliver such an explosive punch in the ring.
She pulled her hair up, revealing her slender neck, and didn't bother to hide the bruises left from last night.
The bar was bustling, but she seemed to have an aura that kept people at a distance, creating a vacuum around her.
Yesterday's five-game winning streak for the newcomer has already made her a name for herself.
Ruan Chen is now worth 50,000 yuan per game.
Tao Zui sat down next to her, ordered two drinks, and pushed one towards her.
"I don't drink." Ruan Chen glanced at it and lazily pushed it back.
Tao Ran looked at her profile, wondering what she had been doing during the day. She seemed a little listless, having lost the fierce edge she had displayed on the stage the night before, and was now obedient and quiet.
"I don't drink... or is it because minors can't drink alcohol?"
Ruan Chen didn't speak, but simply raised her glass and took a sip of orange juice. Her tone turned cold. "If you're calling me here to interrogate you... I'm afraid I won't be there."
A waiter walked up to Tao Zui and whispered, "Brother Tao Zui, that girl is here again. She's in a private room upstairs, crying and drinking."
The Jade-Faced Fox's expression was obscured by his mask, making it impossible to discern his intoxicated state. However, his actions clearly revealed his irritability. He picked up his wine glass, downed it in one gulp, and slammed it heavily on the counter. "I'll go take a look."
After taking a couple of steps, he turned back to look at Ruan Chen, "Come upstairs with me."
"Not interested."
“This is not a discussion,” Tao Ran walked over and grabbed her hand. “If you’re a minor and still want to hang out in Qingye’s place, you’d better listen to me.”
If Ruan Chen had known the trouble that would follow, he would have simply walked away.
Criminal Investigation Division of Jingzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau.
"Ruan Chen, fifteen years old. Tell me, what are you doing at Qingye Bar, a minor?"
I don't know what kind of person the female officer in charge of the criminal investigation team thought Ruan Chen was, because her tone wasn't very friendly.
After all, she was so beautiful that it was hard not to have some thoughts about her appearing in a bar.
However, at least they didn't take Ruan Chen to the interrogation room, but arranged for her to stay in an ordinary office.
But the atmosphere was already quite oppressive.
Ruan Chen glanced at the clock; it was almost midnight.
I'm really sleepy.
Ruan Chen answered truthfully, "I just wanted to watch the boxing."
"What's going on between you and Tao Ran?"
Tao Ran? Ruan Chen was stunned for a moment before realizing that it was Tao Zui's real name. "I just met her at Qingye Bar yesterday."
"What's your relationship with Xu Weiwei?"
Xu Weiwei was the girl who died in the private room on the second floor.
Ruan Chen initially thought it was a bad romantic encounter caused by Tao Zui, but less than two minutes after the two entered the private room, the girl convulsed, foamed at the mouth, collapsed to the ground, and stopped breathing in an instant.
Tao Zui grabbed Ruan Chen and tried to run away, but the police kicked the door open the next second, saying they had received a tip from concerned citizens that someone was conducting illegal transactions there.
Ruan Chen sighed, rubbed his temples wearily, leaned back lazily in his chair, and shrugged.
"I don't know him. I just accompanied Tao Ran upstairs. A waiter came over and told Tao Ran that someone was looking for her on the second floor. Tao Ran called me over for some reason and threatened me by saying that if I didn't go, he would put me on Qingye Bar's blacklist, so I had no choice but to agree."
Ruan Chen looked up, her expression innocent. "Officer, it really is like that. You can check the surveillance footage for details. Can I go home now?"
The two police officers exchanged a glance.
There was no breakthrough on Tao Ran's side, and the same was true for Ruan Chen's side.
But they felt there were too many suspicious points in Ruan Chen's statement: Tao Ran's identity, why would she have any interaction with an underage girl?
Children from ordinary families would have been terrified and would have run to their parents after experiencing something like this, but Ruan Chen was unusually calm.
“No,” one of the policewomen said, twirling her pen, trying to get more clues from Ruan Chen. She resorted to psychological tactics, “Young lady, it seems you’re still in school? What if your school finds out about this…”
Ruan Chen was starting to feel a surge of anger.
She tapped her finger on the table, interrupting the other person with a hint of impatience.
His annoyance was palpable in his eyes. "According to relevant laws, I am obligated to cooperate with your investigation, but please also be aware of the Law on the Protection of Minors—I have an exam tomorrow, so if needed, I will come again tomorrow night."
The coldness and indifference in her tone angered the police officer handling the case.
The other person slammed their hand on the table, stood up, and was about to say something when the office door was pushed open.
"Chen, why get angry with a child? Look how sleepy the child is. You all go back first, I'll take care of it."
"Yes, Sister Lan."
A woman in a white coat sat down opposite Ruan Chen.
She wore gold-rimmed glasses, had hair that barely reached her shoulders, and wore no makeup.
Ruan Chen described her as someone who looked cultured and probably held a high position; she looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn't quite place her.
"My name is Xu Xiaolan," the woman introduced herself. "I'm from the technical department."
Ruan Chen's eyes swept over what she was holding, and she chuckled knowingly, asking, "Can't you retrieve the surveillance footage?"
She reached out her hand; the knuckles of her thin hand were slightly protruding, gleaming with a cool, moist sheen under the office's cold lights.
Pressing down on the drawing board Xu Xiaolan brought with two fingers, Ruan Chen said softly, "I'll do it."
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