CHAPTER 64: CHAPTER 64: RECKLESS YOUTH

Bao Juncai, who was tangled in a lawsuit, had no time to care about other matters. He didn’t want to deal with his ex-wife and various current girlfriends who kept dragging him down, and even wished they were all dead.

Lin Wanwan, of course, didn’t pay attention to Bao Juncai’s current situation. The screenshots she posted were completely accurate, and she had indeed lost her job because of him back then. Naturally, this blame should be returned to him.

She was not someone who would offer her right cheek after being slapped on the left. She preferred to repay kindness with kindness and resentment with straightforwardness.

The phone was ringing incessantly, and texts were coming in one after another. Lin Wanwan neither hung up nor answered; she just set them aside and focused on the messages within her WeChat.

If it was out of concern, she replied a few words; if it was gossip probing or like Ye Ying, someone being annoying, she directly blocked them, taking the opportunity to clean up her friends circle.

Not long after, a message from Lu Shouyue popped up: "Just woke up from a nap, how are you? Did you catch up on sleep after staying up so late last night?"

Lin Wanwan: "Yeah, I caught up."

Lu Shouyue: "Here’s the surveillance from the parking lot last night. Take a look and see if you recognize this person, do you need to report to the police?"

Lin Wanwan opened the surveillance video he sent over and saw the woman who had thrown away her clothes and makeup bag.

This person could barely be considered an acquaintance; they had participated in many activities together, but in terms of friendship, there was none. As for enmity, that was even more unlikely. Although they were added as WeChat friends, they never contacted each other.

She didn’t understand where she had offended the other person.

Lin Wanwan: "Thank you, Mr. Lu. No need to report to the police; the clothes aren’t worth much and the makeup was almost finished. Reporting wouldn’t be of much use, I’ll just keep wary of her in the future. However, I never offended her—I really don’t get why she would harm others without benefiting herself."

Lu Shouyue: "Sometimes being prettier or stronger than others is enough to offend someone."

Lin Wanwan: "...Mr. Lu, what you said makes so much sense, I have no rebuttal o(╥﹏╥)o Being too excellent is my fault."

Lu Shouyue: "^_^ Life is all about making choices and giving up. People on different paths can’t plan together."

After chit-chatting with Lu Shouyue for a few more words, Lin Wanwan pondered for a bit and forwarded the surveillance video to Chen Jinyu.

Compared to Lin Wanwan, Chen Jinyu was much closer to the other person. But since she was such a narrow-minded person, she wasn’t worth building a close relationship with. As a friend, she felt a responsibility to give Chen Jinyu a heads-up.

She left Chen Jinyu with just a line: "This is the woman who threw away my clothes and makeup."

The rest of the judgment and decisions were left to her. However, as Chen Jinyu was unjustly beaten yesterday, she likely wouldn’t have the energy to check her phone today.

After sending it to Chen Jinyu, she also forwarded the video to the woman along with a message: "Want to keep it unknown to everyone, unless you don’t do it. Advise you to be cautious."

After finishing, she directly blocked the woman.

When the woman received Lin Wanwan’s WeChat and saw the video, her face turned pale. She had forgotten that there was surveillance in the underground garage. Of course, she hadn’t expected Lin Wanwan would actually go to the trouble of getting surveillance from International Times Square for a tattered tracksuit.

Was it so easy to get Times Square’s surveillance?

Looking at Lin Wanwan’s cold words, she still wanted to argue, fearful it might affect her future relationship with Chen Jinyu, given that Lin Wanwan had a good relationship with him.

But just as she sent her argument, she realized she was blocked.

"Tch!" She rolled her eyes, cursing, "Why wasn’t that bitch Lin Wanwan among the ones beaten yesterday! So frustrating!"

Cursing apart, she was still quite anxious inside, believing Lin Wanwan must have sent the video to Chen Jinyu too. For what she did yesterday, a tinge of regret suddenly emerged.

Yesterday, she had lost her mind out of jealousy seeing Lin Wanwan walk the red carpet hand in hand with Xiao Junning, deciding on an impulse to mess with Lin Wanwan. Since it was a spur-of-the-moment decision, she hadn’t thought much about follow-ups, and it was too late to regret it now.

Harming others without benefiting oneself—that described her kind of person.

Meanwhile, Lin Wanwan exited WeChat, turned her phone to airplane mode, and ignored the chaos online. She opened the Space-Time Gate and went back to the Tang Dynasty.

In modern-day Shanghai.

"Snap!" A glass cup fell from Yang Chaonan’s hand, spilling water all over the floor.

But she couldn’t care right now. After hanging up the call, she stood there in a daze for a full five seconds before looking at Xiao Junning, lounging on the lazy sofa by the floor-to-ceiling glass window, playing a mobile game, her heart flooded with countless silent curses.

But the words that came out changed into earnest advice: "Ning, why would you let yourself go and post such a Weibo? You’re only 21, this is the prime time to build your career. Do you really want to date? What’s the point of dating? Building a career is what’s fun! Ning, you’re just about to take off! This is the time to avoid all distractions."

Xiao Junning replied casually, "How do you know dating isn’t fun, have you tried it?"

Yang, Single-for-Thirty-Years, Chaonan, was momentarily speechless but argued strongly, "In life, career is more important. You’re in your peak popularity; if rumors spread, you might lose millions of fans instantly, believe it or not?"

Xiao Junning: "Heh."

Yang Chaonan continued to persuade, "Don’t take it lightly. The year-end awards for the most popular are coming up soon. The box office for ’This Youth’ hit 2 billion this year, and you have a good chance of being nominated for Best Newcomer. If you could win the Most Popular Actor award too, think about it, what a spectacle would that be!"

As she said this, she casually asked, "That girl, called Lin Wanwan, she’s really your schoolmate? Did you know her before?"

Hearing this name, Xiao Junning’s calm expression vanished, and with a scowl, he said, "No, I don’t know her."

Thinking back to when Lin Wanwan returned to school after the midterm exams, he had built up the courage to give her a pen pal letter, which fell into a void with no response.

Xiao Junning felt a vein throb in anger.

What was so great about being the school belle? He was the campus heartthrob! Ah, the ignorant years of youth, so disgraceful to recall.

He didn’t even know why, just moments ago, he impulsively retweeted support, maybe to fulfill a teenage dream of rescuing a damsel in distress.

The current him stood higher, further beyond, no longer confined to being a campus sensation. With just a small gesture, he could save her from the abyss; why not?

"Don’t know her?! Then why retweet her as your senior?! What’s the point of getting involved in such muddy waters?"

Yang Chaonan almost jumped up. A single Weibo had led the company to spend a significant sum to suppress the hot search!

As she continued to babble on with her persuasions, Xiao Junning suddenly interjected: "With you talking this much, doesn’t your family ever get annoyed? Isn’t it more adorable when a girl’s a bit quieter?"

Yang Chaonan: "..."

So exhausting, dealing with a too-young, top-tier celebrity! Too hard to manage!