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Author's Note:
After dealing with Xin Hailan's matter and writing about the public wedding, the main story will end. There aren't many chapters left. Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants between 2022-05-05 03:15:21 and 2022-05-06 15:57:02!
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Chapter 100
After Lin Leyao and Ji Rong returned to the banquet hall, they waited for a while, but Xin Ying still hadn't returned.
Lin Leyao was getting impatient and couldn't help but stand up from the sofa, wanting to go to the bathroom to find Xin Ying.
Ji Rong couldn't stop her and could only watch helplessly as Lin Leyao left.
When Lin Leyao arrived at the place where Xie Kai had been knocked unconscious, she found that Xie Kai was no longer there, and Xin Ying had also disappeared. Just as she was wondering, a tightly closed door in the depths of the corridor was opened from the inside, and Xin Ying walked out of the room.
Lin Leyao quickly ran over.
Upon seeing Lin Leyao appear, Xin Ying was momentarily taken aback. Standing at the doorway, she asked, "Didn't I tell you to wait for me?"
Lin Leyao said, "I noticed you haven't been back for quite a while, so I wanted to come and see you."
Lin Leyao's gaze involuntarily turned to the wooden door behind Xin Ying. The door had been tightly closed again the moment Xin Ying came out, completely isolating everything inside the room. Through the heavy wooden door, no one knew what was happening inside.
Noticing Lin Leyao's gaze, Xin Ying stepped aside to block Lin Leyao's view of the wooden door. She looked at Lin Leyao in front of her, reached out and tucked a few strands of hair that had fallen across her forehead behind her ear, and said with a smile, "Let's go home."
Lin Leyao was no longer curious about what was inside the wooden door. She nodded and said, "Okay."
The two walked back towards the banquet hall, intending to say goodbye to Ji Rong together.
As they walked, Xin Ying said, "I smell a bit bad. I'll go to the suite to take a shower and change my clothes before we go home."
The two figures grew smaller and smaller until they gradually disappeared around the corner of the banquet hall.
A minute later, two figures, one tall and one short, emerged from the previously quiet restroom.
These two are the little girl and her mother who took a photo with Lin Leyao earlier.
The little girl blinked, looking at her mother with a puzzled expression.
After her mother discovered that she had taken a photo with Lin Leyao, her mother ignored her for a long time before she calmed down.
She was going to the bathroom, and her mother came with her. But before she even got into the bathroom, her mother pulled her behind a huge floor vase to hide. After a long time, she couldn't hold it in any longer, and her mother quickly pulled her into the bathroom.
The little girl was very confused about what her mother had been hiding from, but as she walked to the bathroom, she looked around but didn't find anything strange.
The little girl's doubts have remained to this day, but her mother is not as calm as she is.
The woman is still unable to calm down after recalling everything she just witnessed.
She had just come from the banquet hall and saw from a distance that a person was lying at the entrance of the restroom, with a man in a sharp suit squatting beside him.
The woman didn't know what had happened between the two, but she could tell that the person squatting down had no intention of helping the person lying motionless on the ground.
The banquet was attended by all sorts of people, and adhering to the principle of "better to avoid trouble," the woman immediately pulled her daughter away and hid.
Soon another group of people ran down the corridor. After the entire corridor fell silent, without a sound, the woman slowly peeked out.
The person who was lying on the ground has disappeared, along with the person who was squatting next to him.
The woman originally wanted to hurry back to the banquet hall to avoid unnecessary trouble, but because her daughter needed to use the restroom, she had no choice but to take her daughter to the restroom.
As the woman passed the spot where the person had been lying, she froze and quickly pushed her daughter into the bathroom.
Even after entering the bathroom, the woman's mind remained on the outside, and she was constantly alert to any sounds coming from outside.
When she heard the sound of high heels, she didn't immediately take her daughter out. After a while, when she felt there was no sound outside, she slowly walked out. As soon as she reached the door, she noticed someone talking in the back of the corridor. She immediately stopped going out and pulled her daughter back into the bathroom.
She hid at the entrance to the bathroom, and as the footsteps of the two people drew closer, she couldn't help but peek out. The backs of the two people instantly came into clear view of her.
The woman recognized Xin Ying immediately upon seeing the suit she was wearing.
This person was the one who had been squatting next to the unconscious man lying on the ground; it turned out she was a woman.
The woman recognized Lin Leyao and Xin Ying, and her daughter also recognized Lin Leyao.
The little girl didn't understand the turbulent emotions her mother had experienced in such a short time. She pulled the woman, wanting to go back to the banquet hall.
The woman quickly pulled her daughter back, and said in a calm voice, "Don't tell anyone what happened today, okay?"
The little girl didn't understand why her mother said that, so she could only nod blankly in agreement.
As soon as she stepped into the banquet hall, the little girl saw Lin Leyao and immediately said, "Mommy, it's Lin Leyao."
As soon as she finished speaking, the woman roared, "Have you forgotten what I just told you? Repeat what I just said to you!"
A deafening roar suddenly rang in her ears, startling the girl. She hadn't expected her mother to be so agitated and angry, and her eyes immediately welled up with tears.
The woman stared at her with wide eyes.
The little girl was frightened, her eyes filled with tears, but she dared not cry.
She stammered as she repeated the woman's instructions. She didn't understand why her mother was so serious, not letting her mention what had just happened, not even that she had seen Lin Leyao at the bathroom door.
She even wondered if her mother's strong reaction was because she didn't like Lin Leyao.
Hearing her daughter repeat the same words, the woman's anger gradually subsided, and the little girl finally couldn't hold back her tears, which streamed down her face.
The two stood out at the entrance of the banquet hall. Inside, someone saw the little girl crying with tears streaming down her face and couldn't help but feel sorry for her: "What's wrong with Mrs. Li today? She keeps scolding the child. The poor little girl is so pitiful."
“Children have self-esteem too. If you always scold a child in such a big setting, the child will remember it for a lifetime, and may even resent their mother for it when they are old.”
"That's right, children shouldn't be educated like that!"
Several people were gossiping about Mrs. Li, but she was completely unaware. At that moment, she had no desire to socialize and took her daughter straight to the rest area.
Lin Leyao and Xin Ying went together to say goodbye to Ji Rong.
Ji Rong looked at the two children and said in a low voice, "Just leave the matter to me. You two go back and get some rest."
Xin Ying smiled and said, "No need, Mom, I've almost finished taking care of it."
Lin Leyao stared blankly at Xin Ying, who raised her hand and placed it on her shoulder, pinching her earlobe with her fingers.
Xin Ying knew she was curious, but Lin Leyao had been well protected by Ji Hongchen since childhood. Although she had experienced many ups and downs growing up, those were necessary seasonings on the road to adulthood. Compared to her, Lin Leyao's life was still too simple. It was nothing like her, who had experienced betrayal from her family and the danger of death at the age of sixteen.
Her environment was too complicated; she could handle anything herself. She didn't want these messy things to affect Lin Leyao's mood, so she didn't plan to tell her.
Hearing this, Ji Rong nodded and said, "Then you should go home quickly. The reporters outside have been cleared away, so you don't need to worry about being photographed."
Before leaving, Xin Ying found a room to take a shower and change her clothes.
Although it was already dark outside, the streetlights were just coming on, and various neon lights illuminated half the sky as if it were daylight.
The incident involving Xie Kai began to escalate the following day. Last night, hotel staff found Xie Kai unconscious and immediately called the police in shock.
When Xie Kai's mother received this news, she was so angry that she almost fainted. She insisted on finding the suspect who harmed her son and making that person pay a hundredfold.
However, her plan was ultimately shattered by reality. The police conducted a drug test on Xie Kai and found that the result was positive. Xie Kai, who had just woken up from his coma, was immediately arrested.
When Xie Kai woke up, he claimed that he had been knocked unconscious by a female celebrity named Lin Leyao, but the evidence was insufficient. The investigation results also showed that he had knocked himself unconscious by hitting the corner of the coffee table in his room.
On this basis, all the things Xie Kai did a few years ago were exposed, and someone came forward to provide evidence and report him. Xie Kai's matter immediately went viral on the Internet and aroused a lot of criticism.
Xie Kai, who used to always claim that others hurt him, has now changed his catchphrase to "It wasn't me, it wasn't me."
While Xie Kai was going through all these events, Lin Leyao was already packing her bags to go to Yunnan for charity work.
The yard has been renovated and planted with calla lilies.
The calla lilies had just been planted, and many of the leaves were still wilting. As the sun set, Lin Leyao was watering the flowers in the yard with a hose.
Just then, her phone rang in her pocket.
The caller ID showed an unknown phone number, but the address indicated it was from the same city. Lin Leyao hesitated for a moment before clicking to answer.
"Hello."
As soon as Lin Leyao opened her mouth, she heard the other person's hysterical voice.
"Did you ruin my son's life?!"
The caller's voice was hoarse and agitated, and his emotions were very unstable. Lin Leyao thought it was a wrong number. Just as she was about to answer, she heard the other person calling her name.
"Lin Leyao! You've ruined my son like this, I won't let you get away with this!"
After a moment of reaction, Lin Leyao finally realized that the caller was Xie Kai's mother.
She didn't hang up. After listening to the other person's string of insults, she calmly said, "Are you done? Can I hang up now?"
Upon hearing Lin Leyao's cold tone, the other party immediately roared, "You woman, you've harmed my son so badly, you won't get away with this! I'll find you, tear you apart, and torture you to death!"
Hearing this, Lin Leyao smiled faintly: "Auntie, you don't think I'm responsible for your son's current predicament, do you? A nine-story tower begins with a pile of earth, and a thousand-mile dike is breached by an ant hole. Everything is accumulated from small things. You may not have cared when those things happened, and you could have used your power and money to solve them, but when these things happen repeatedly, they accumulate and eventually bring you down. Xie Kai's current situation is his own doing; he sowed the seeds that led to this consequence."
Because her son was on the verge of madness, the woman couldn't listen to Lin Leyao at all. She laughed maniacally twice and questioned, "Wasn't it you who knocked my son unconscious at the birthday party?"
"How can you be sure it's me? Just based on your son's words?"
"Haha, I have an eyewitness, she saw it!"
Lin Leyao was taken aback. Only she and her mother were present when Xie Kai fainted that day. Could it be that someone else saw it and told Xie Kai's mother?
Lin Leyao retorted, "Did someone else tell you that I knocked your son unconscious?"
Seeing that Lin Leyao was still denying it, Xie Kai's mother said aggressively, "What's the use of denying it now? Others saw you next to my son. My son was already unconscious when you hit him. Don't think that just because there are no surveillance cameras, I can't deal with you! You're just a little actress, but I have plenty of ways to deal with you!"
From what Xie Kai's mother said, she only knew that she was the suspect who knocked her son unconscious.
Whether she actually had eyewitnesses or made it up based on Xie Kai's words, as long as Ji Rong wasn't involved, her emotions didn't fluctuate much.
She didn't want to talk to this mother who was using her power to act recklessly in order to protect her son, so Lin Leyao hung up the phone.
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Author's Note:
Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 15:57:02 on May 6, 2022 and 00:54:15 on May 9, 2022!
Thank you to the little angel who threw the landmine: 55157345 (1 landmine);
Thank you to the little angel who watered the nutrient solution: Simple 1 bottle;