Chapter 114: Chapter 113: Shu Yinyin with No Way Out

Shu Fugai ultimately couldn't hold back his rage."Smack!"

The smartphone in his hand was forcefully slammed onto the table, creating several cracks on the outer screen while the inner display was no longer showing anything.

"I'm livid! I'm absolutely livid! That impudent brat! Such a brazen young man, in all my twenty years as a dean, I've never seen anyone dare to speak to me like this!"

Shu Fugai clutched his chest, having to take two breaths just to catch one.

Gu Yu's statement nearly caused his blood pressure to burst through his skull.

To think the latter even aspired to take his seat as the dean!

"Uncle... Uncle, are you alright..."

Shu Yinyin hastily helped settle her uncle into the office chair, then fetched a cup of warm water from the dispenser.

Shu Fugai took three sips to finish the cup of water, and only then did the violent pounding in his heart start to slowly subside.

"Ah... Yinyin, it's not that your uncle isn't willing to help you, it's just that this Gu Yu is unyielding. You saw it yourself, even I am not in his eyes!"

Having put the teacup on the table, he looked at his niece with a gaze weary and feeble, then let out a long sigh.

Having been a dean for so many years, didn't everyone he met have to call him Dean Shu or Mr. Shu?

But this Gu Yu, he showed absolutely no respect for him as a mentor!

Such a thorn in the side, back before he came to Haidong, when he ran an art studio teaching art students, such people would have ended up with the character "shame" painted on their face, standing punished outside his studio's door to be beaten!

Shu Fugai gnashed his teeth in hatred, yet he was powerless to do anything to Gu Yu.

Although he was a dean, he had no authority over the students from the Software College!

He had also sought out Li Qian, the vice-dean of the Software College, in the last few days, hinting indirectly for her to put pressure on Gu Yu, but Li Qian had flatly rejected him with the excuse that "an official from the civil service can't control soldiers from the military."

The school leadership may appear congenial on the surface, but in reality, they were divided into distinct factions.

The senior leadership of the Software and Art colleges had always been at odds, just like their respective fields, completely unrelated.

Furthermore, he had some minor disputes with the dean of the Software College previously, which was why he approached the vice-dean, Li Qian, in the first place.

By now, he had approached everyone he possibly could.

Dean Xue Zhong was determined to protect Gu Yu, and he dared not stir up too much, for fear of giving Xue Zhong a handle against him.

Therefore, this matter could only be left as is, he had tried his best.

Glancing sideways at his niece who was still looking at him expectantly, Shu Fugai shook his head helplessly.

"There's nothing I can do now, the most I can offer is to find you a good lawyer to see if we can get you a lighter sentence. That legal lecturer Luo San has been promoting legal awareness in Modu's colleges recently, I might try my luck and see if we can hire him for you."

"If we can get him as your defense attorney, maybe there will be a chance for a turnaround?"

He recalled Professor Luo San, who had recently come to the university for a public legal education campaign and became a legendary "lawless madman" on the internet.

If he could hire him to defend Shu Yinyin, perhaps there was a chance to reverse the situation?

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Shu Yinyin stood there blankly, her uncle's words echoing in her mind—"There's nothing I can do now."

"Am I really going to prison? Am I going to be imprisoned? I don't want to go to prison… I don't!"

She muttered to herself, already having spent a few days in custody, she was terrified at the thought of prison life.

"I have to think of a way… I have to think of a way… Bi Jian! Bi Jian must have a way!"

Shu Yinyin's expression gradually became frantic.

She suddenly thought of someone, her former accomplice, Bi Jian.

She and Bi Jian were arrested at the same time, but Bi Jian got bailed out two days before her, and they hadn't really contacted each other since then.

At this point, she was at her wits' end.

All she could think of was that Bi Jian might have an idea!

Glancing at her uncle still on the phone, Shu Yinyin felt that she could no longer rely on him.

So, she stumbled out of the office to look for Bi Jian.

Half an hour later.

Shu Yinyin saw Bi Jian at the entrance of Haidong University Student Innovation Park.

"Bi Jian! I knew you would wait for me!"

She got out of the taxi, running over to him with a face full of joy.

"What do you want with me?"

Bi Jian looked at Shu Yinyin with a face full of disdain. If it weren't for Shu Yinyin, this spoiled princess causing trouble everywhere, he wouldn't be facing so much trouble now.

"Bi Jian… have you grown tired of me?"

Shu Yinyin wasn't stupid. Bi Jian's indifferent tone and disdainful expression made his feelings clear as day.

Tears immediately clouded her eyes, her face the very picture of grievance.

Seeing her like this, Bi Jian felt even more irritable. Wasn't Shu Yinyin usually domineering and unreasonable?

Why was she now putting on this pitiful act?

"Cut the crap, what do you mean by disdain? I never said I liked you! Spit it out, what do you want to meet me for? I have a pile of things waiting for me to deal with at the company!"

Bi Jian said with extreme impatience.

Shu Yinyin tried to grab his hand, but he pushed it aside.

Her expression froze, and she looked at Bi Jian incredulously. She hadn't expected that Bi Jian would turn on her even faster than flipping through a book!

"That night at the celebration... in the woods... when you kissed me... you clearly said with your own lips... that I was the person you liked most!"

"So were you deceiving me?"

Shu Yinyin's tears started flowing. She never thought that Bi Jian could be such a hypocrite!

All that he had said and done before was just to deceive her emotions!

She shook her head, stumbled backward two steps, and ended up on the non-motorized vehicle lane, right as an unlicensed three-wheeled cart laden with planks came speeding towards her.

Just as the cart was about to hit the oblivious Shu Yinyin, Bi Jian reached out and yanked her away.

Shu Yinyin narrowly missed a traffic accident.

"If you want to die, don't do it here! It's really damn bad luck!"

Bi Jian's anger showed on his face; with a sharp pull, Shu Yinyin fell at his feet.

Without caring how Shu Yinyin had fallen, he strode toward the park.

He hadn't walked two steps before his right leg was caught by Shu Yinyin, nearly causing him to fall flat on his face.

"Bi Jian! Save me... you must have a way to save me, right! I heard those cops say, you're an accessory, you should be lightly punished, maybe even avoid detention..."

"You have to think of a way to help me, to get my charges dropped too..."

"Or you go to jail for me... I'll give you money... I'll give you half a million! No, a million!"

Shu Yinyin's left cheek was scraped by the cement ground, but she was oblivious, set on making Bi Jian come up with a solution.

Bi Jian finally steadied himself, turned his head, and looked at Shu Yinyin—who was disheveled and in disarray—with disgust.

"A million? To take the fall for you? Crazy woman, have you lost your mind?"

With that, he kicked away the hand that clung to his calf and walked into the park without looking back.

Shu Yinyin lay on the ground, watching Bi Jian's retreating figure growing distant, then glanced at the passersby who were beginning to gather round.

A wave of humiliation, like she had never experienced since her birth, surged through her. She hurriedly got up, covered her face, and ran away crying bitterly.

Bi Jian returned to his company with a displeased expression.

Standing in the work hall, he swept a glance over the busy employees, then shouted at the top of his lungs:

"I can overlook the matter you kept from me last time, but today you must stabilize 'Simulating Billionaire' for me!"

"Tomorrow! Tomorrow I'm going to attend the Shengda Investment seminar, and if there's the slightest slip-up, I'll make sure all of you can't get out of it!"

Having said that, Bi Jian returned to his office.

Product Manager Hu Shuo sneaked up to Technical Manager Kang Jia. He glanced back at these colleagues who were engrossed in coding, a hint of hatred flickering in his eyes.

"Kang, who do you think leaked that night's events?"

"There must be a traitor among us!"

Kang Jia stopped his fingers, which had been rapidly tapping on the keyboard, glanced at him, and then looked back at the colleagues.

He whispered, "Money talks; surely someone here has been bought."

"In the next few days, don't let anyone know about our plans to resign."

"Mm!"

Hu Shuo nodded, then continued to ask:

"Kang, have you found a new job?"

Kang Jia shook his head: "No."

Hu Shuo looked puzzled: "Then you…?"

"I don't want to work for that scumbag Bi Jian anymore; I'd rather go back to school and work part-time there."

"I've heard that a junior in school has started an Ideal Paradise Network Technology company, so I'm going to try my luck."

Kang Jia raised his head, gave Bi Jian—who was leaning on a recliner inside the office—a cold glance, and then shared his plans.

"Aren't you afraid that this junior will turn out to be a vampire, just like Bi Jian?"

"Let's try and see. If it's not suitable, just forget it!"

"Alright!"