Chapter 10: She's in charge of this game.
Xu Zhili suddenly rushed forward, approaching Lin Wanwan like a ghost.
Her icy hands gripped Lin Wanwan's wrist like iron clamps, while her other hand grabbed Lin Wanwan's carefully maintained long hair and pulled it backward forcefully!
"ah--!!!"
The intense pain caused Lin Wanwan to let out a piercing scream.
Lin Wanwan tried desperately to pry Xu Zhili's hands off, but Xu Zhili only pulled harder. Lin Wanwan screamed in pain again.
Xu Zhili bent down, getting close to the face contorted with pain and fear. Her voice was soft, but her eyes were icy cold.
"Did you enjoy it when they took my job?"
She exerted sudden force, twisting and pulling her wrist!
"Sizzle—!"
A large handful of scalp and hair, streaked with blood, was forcibly ripped off!
Lin Wanwan's screams turned into intermittent gasps.
Her face was covered in tears and snot, and she desperately reached out her hand to Zhang Jiumei, crying out in despair.
"Mom! Mom! Kill her! Kill this madman! My head... my hair... ah, it hurts so much! Mom, save me, waaaaah..."
Lin Wanwan, unable to stop crying, begged Zhang Jiumei for help.
Blood beads slid down her bleeding bald head, dripping onto the cement floor and staining a small patch of dark red.
Xu Zhili shook her hands with disgust, as if trying to get rid of something dirty.
She lifted her foot and casually ground the blood-stained lock of hair on the ground with the worn-out toe of her shoe, a frighteningly contemptuous smile playing on her lips.
"Who do you think you are, trying to ambush me from behind? You're far from capable. Otherwise—"
Her gaze slowly swept over the pale faces of the Lin family members, finally settling on Lin Jinguo's old face, which was twitching with shock and anger. Her voice suddenly rose, becoming sharp and shrill.
"Otherwise, I'll let the whole machine factory hear how our 'highly respected' technician Lin Jinguo colluded with his mistress Zhang Zhaodi to resell a batch of scrapped 'Red Star' brand bearings as genuine products and pocket the money! That amount of money is enough to get your whole family shot, isn't it?"
This sentence was like a thunderclap!
Lin Jinguo shuddered, his face turned deathly pale, his lips trembled, and he couldn't utter a single word.
Zhang Jiumei's vision went black, and she almost fainted.
She gripped her husband's arm tightly, her nails digging into his flesh, making a gurgling sound in her throat, and looking at Xu Zhili with the fear of seeing a ghost.
Lin Jinguo was shocked when he heard Xu Zhili's words: How did she know? How could she know so much?! That batch of bearings... that's a matter of life and death!
Lin Wanwan was so frightened that she forgot to cry. She covered her bleeding scalp, looked at her father in terror, and then at Xu Zhili. The immense fear made her tremble like a leaf, and she couldn't even feel the pain.
Lu Jiahao felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave; his heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of his throat.
My father-in-law and the others...
He adjusted his glasses and looked at Xu Zhili, the girl who had once been obedient to him, but now she seemed like a vengeful demon, exuding an aura of madness and destruction.
He had no doubt that she would actually do it!
The Lin family is finished, and the connections he worked so hard to build... are also gone!
A tremendous panic and a twisted, intensely drawn tremor gripped him, freezing him in place, unable to move.
Xu Zhili was quite satisfied with the deathly silence.
She even took a deep, enjoyable breath of the bloody and terrifying smell in the air.
She crossed her arms, her small frame resembling a drawn sword, standing firmly as she watched the Lin family members behave like lambs to the slaughter.
When they shattered her life, did they ever imagine this day would come?
She calls the shots in this game.
Xu Zhili's gaze was fixed on Lin Jinguo's ashen face. Her fingers slowly circled a strand of hair at his temple, her voice drawn out, soft and slow, yet like a venomous snake crawling across his face.
"Old man, you've got two thousand yuan, are you ready to spit it out?"
She suddenly took a light step forward, the sound of her heels hitting the ground particularly jarring in the silence, "Just one more second—"
She deliberately paused, watching Lin Jinguo's pupils contract sharply with extreme fear, before forcing out a sardonic smile through her teeth.
“I’ll go to the security department to ‘turn myself in,’ and while I’m at it, I’ll talk about how that batch of bearings was scrapped right under his nose, and how it ‘just happened’ to end up in Zhang Jiumei’s brother’s repair shop. Oh, right.”
As if suddenly remembering something amusing, her smile became both innocent and cruel. "That 'Luzhou brand' watch, a keepsake left to me by my grandfather, you dare to steal it? Perfect, let the security comrades see what kind of 'love token' Technician Lin used to deceive his mistress?"
Lin Jinguo's vision blurred, his temples throbbed, and his nails dug deep into his palms, almost drawing blood! The bearings! Sleeping with a woman! If either of these things got out, he'd be finished!
This girl... she's not human! She's a demon!
She knew all his secrets, laid bare under her cold gaze, and the immense fear and helplessness nearly drove him to the brink of collapse.
"You...you..."
He made a hoarse, bellowing sound, as if he wanted to shout, but only a breath came out: "You're trying to drive my whole family to their deaths!"
Xu Zhili tilted her head, and the innocent cruelty on her face vanished instantly, leaving only pure, cold malice.
“Forced to death? Technician Lin, you’re exaggerating. I’m just taking back what’s rightfully mine, and by the way…” She glanced around at the trembling Lin family members, her red lips uttering vicious words, “…let you taste what it’s like to be trampled in the mud.”
She took a step forward, her high heels clicking softly on her disheveled hair. Looking down at Lin Wanwan, who was slumped on the ground, and Lin Jinguo, who was swaying precariously, her voice was not loud, but it carried a ruthless intensity that seemed to have extinguished all hope.
"Money, a watch, and—"
She paused, then clearly dropped her final bombshell, "A letter of severance. From this day forward, Lin Zhili and Lin Zhian are completely cut off from your Lin family. We have no further connection whatsoever! Sign it, and I'll take the money and the watch and get out of here immediately, go to the countryside to work, and never return to the city. Don't sign it..."
She didn't finish her sentence, but let out a series of low, nervous laughs that echoed in the oppressive air, more chilling than any threat.
Her gaze swept over Lin Jinguo's instantly pale face, Zhang Jiumei's desperate eyes, and Lin Wanwan's disheveled appearance as she lost control of her bladder due to fear, finally settling on Lu Jiahao's face, which was filled with horror and complex desire.
Xu Zhili's lips curled into an almost insane smile, her eyes burning with a destructive fire.
"By sunset tomorrow, I want to see everything laid out before me, without missing a single item. Otherwise, you can expect to hear the machine factory's loudspeakers broadcasting your Lin family's 'glorious deeds' on a loop! Remember that."
She spoke slowly and deliberately, as if delivering a verdict: "I have limited patience."
After she finished speaking, she didn't look at anyone again, turned around, and walked away without looking back, stepping over the mess and the silent fear on the ground.
That slender yet upright back exuded a chilling aura.
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