Chapter 223

While she weeped, she was still reluctant to give up on her attempt to influence his thoughts, “Xie Xinglin, I’m the one who has always loved you. I’ve been in love with you since a very early age and I loved you before anyone else did, so why… Why would you fall in love with someone else?”

After she said that, Xie Xinglin stepped back slightly. He played with the lighter in his hand and then snuffed out the cigarette butt.

The sneer that was plastered on his face faded as he took out the phone from his arms. Then, he played back the conversation that he just recorded.

In the recording, she admitted that she was involved in this matter very clearly.

Lin Luoyu, who was crying so much that her face became reddened and puffy, opened her eyes slightly. After hearing what he said, her breathing hitched.

Xie Xinglin glanced down at her and said lightly, “It’s a pity that your self-righteous love made me feel nothing but disgust.”

Hearing his words, Lin Luoyu felt like a knife had been stabbed into her heart and she felt entirely brokenhearted.

He did it on purpose.

She didn’t expect Xie Xinglin to do this much for Su Qiuge.

She couldn’t help but step forward and grab onto his arm. Then, she opened her eyes and said, “Please, don’t do this to me, okay?”

She couldn’t imagine what was going to happen if other people knew that she was the mastermind behind the scenes. She had always been a good child in the eyes of her parents, a good student in the eyes of her teachers and a good friend in the eyes of her classmates.

From a scholar and a role model, her position was going to…

It was difficult to accept such consequences as she couldn’t fathom the outcome.

Xie Xinglin looked down at her sobbing appearance for a long time, the corners of his lips curved slightly.

Showing her a gentle smile, he said the cruelest words——

“You deserve it, so take it well.”

Lin Luoyu looked at his retreating frame and suddenly fell to the ground, a thought coming to her in hindsight:

Xie Xinglin was a lunatic and a devil; she should never have provoked him.

After he walked out of the equipment room, he called Han Ming, “The recording has been obtained, but we’re missing witnesses and evidence. Can your dad handle it?”

Han Ming patted his chest, as if he was eager to be courteous.

“Don’t worry, I’ll make sure that this matter can’t be handled by anyone else— even if other people take charge of the case, the sentence might be lighter. However, on my dad’s side, he went out to dinner with the Director the day before yesterday. We pulled out all the stops and the tricks for you, though you shouldn’t even have to have experienced that in the first place.”

What a joke; Xie Xinglin never asked him to do anything like that. But since Han Ming couldn’t provide his aid all this time, he wanted to make it count now that his friend needed his help.

Hence, Han Ming slyly told his father about the incident, accepting the case.

Xie Xinglin lowered his eyes and said, “I owe you a favor for this matter and I will pay you back in the future.”

Han Ming hurriedly said, “No way? You’re even counting this little matter as work? We’re brothers. You didn’t ask me for a penny back when you encountered an issue and that was enough to make me feel bad. And yet, you want to count this as ‘helping you out’ by my speaking one sentence to my dad?”

Xie Xinglin lowered his eyes and looked at the ground, listening to a string of “No way, there’s no way you’re doing that” coming from the phone. Then, he slightly hooked his lips.

As the finals were coming up soon, the atmosphere in the school was especially tense.

Most of the classes were over and many students started their self-studies.

Xie Xinglin went back to the classroom and saw Su Qiuge doing her homework with her head down. When she saw him coming back, she asked, “Where did you go just now?”

Xie Xinglin replied casually, “I just went to settle something.”

Xie Xinglin looked down at her, and at a glance, he realized that she answered a question incorrectly.

He leaned over and said, “You made a mistake on such a basic question? Do you still want to take first place in our grade?”

After initially seeing Xie Xingling leave the classroom right after the lesson ended, Su Qiuge thought that he still wasn’t feeling well. With a worried mind, she didn’t put much thought into her studies. Now that it was being pointed out by him, she realized that she made a careless mistake as well.

She hummed, “Based on your recent physical condition, it doesn’t really look like you can be our grade-topper either. What if you make one mistake or choose the wrong answer on the test? Wouldn’t I be first place then?”

Xie Xinglin hooked his lips and said, “I think your imagination is quite vivid.”

After a while, he took his seat and said slowly, “But it’s not impossible.”

Su Qiuge leaned over and asked, “What should be done for that to be considered possible?”

As soon as she finished speaking, he raised his eyes and stared at her. Without concealing his intention to seduce her, “With every kiss you give me, I’ll get one answer wrong.”

Su Qiuge, “…”

Su Qiuge sneered, “I won’t.”

Xie Xinglin seemed to be a little disappointed as he propped his chin lazily, “You’re not willing to pay this price for your academics; it seems that your grades are not very important to you.”

Su Qiuge glared at him and said, “Although it’s not very important, my academics are still of a higher status compared to what you are to me. After all, learning can make me happy.”