“What are you looking at me like that for?” Lin Ye asked.
Ruan Xingyao pressed her lips together, not immediately voicing what she had heard.
Instead, she offered a friendly suggestion: “I think I’d better tell you somewhere private where no one else is around.”
Hearing her say this only made Lin Ye feel a deeper chill creeping down his spine.
But he still tried to sound tough: “What could you possibly have to say that can’t be said here?”
His eyes flickered as he remembered the chirping he’d heard right before hanging up the video call earlier — it should have been the baby swallows in the nest under the eaves of his house.
If that was the case, then this was the perfect chance to give Ruan Xingyao a taste of her own medicine.
Lin Ye said, “Don’t tell me you’re going to say you understood what my swallows were talking about?”
Ruan Xingyao nodded, her expression as sincere as could be.
Lin Ye said, “Alright then, go ahead and tell me — what were they saying?”
That swallow’s nest had been under his eaves for over a year.
If she could really say something that only he would know about his home, then he’d believe that this little girl could actually understand animals.
Ruan Xingyao still kept her lips pressed together, her expression tangled with hesitation.
Several seconds later, she continued to try to persuade him: “Better not. I’m afraid you might not be able to take it.”
The more she acted like this, the more it stoked Lin Ye’s rebellious streak — now he insisted that Ruan Xingyao tell him.
The others were also getting impatient with her repeated refusals; someone with a short temper was already slapping the table.
“I’m asking you — can you do it or not? Don’t tell me you don’t actually have the ability, and you’re just scared of being exposed now!”
“Coming to the police bureau to show off and scam people — I really don’t get what’s going through your head!”
“…”
The voices in the room grew sharper and more unpleasant to Ruan Xingyao’s ears, making her little brows furrow tightly.
She looked at Lin Ye and asked, “Are you really sure you want me to say it? Even if it involves your privacy and… is something rather disgraceful, you don’t mind?”
Lin Ye was momentarily stunned by her words.
His mind quickly ran through whether there was any shameful secret at his house that couldn’t be revealed.
After confirming several times over that there was no such thing, he nodded firmly and said, “Everyone here is a comrade I’ve lived and fought alongside. I have nothing to be embarrassed about!”
Ruan Xingyao let out a silent sigh.
Truly, good advice can’t persuade a damned ghost.
Since he was already so stubborn, she had nothing left to hesitate about.
Ruan Xingyao said, “Alright, but let’s make it clear first — once I say it, you’re not allowed to get angry, and even more so, you can’t hit me.”
She had only been in this world for three days, and her soul hadn’t fully merged with this body yet — it was still very fragile!
If Lin Ye were to throw a punch at her, she really wouldn’t be able to take it!
Lin Ye had already been driven to the edge of losing his patience by Ruan Xingyao.
He shouted loudly, “I promise, alright?! Are you going to say it or not?!”
Ruan Xingyao said, “Those two little swallows said that you come home at most twice a month, and you and your wife are practically strangers by now. Because your grandma couldn’t count on you, she wanted to leave an heir for the Lin family. Half a year ago, she started coaxing your wife to sleep with your younger brother. Just now, when you video-called them, your wife and your younger brother were in the bedroom sleeping together…”
“Bullshit!”
Lin Ye slammed the table and strode toward Ruan Xingyao, his fist already raised in the air.
Ruan Xingyao quickly and nimbly ducked behind Shen Jiming, hiding herself completely.
But her little mouth was still running, “Those two little swallows also said that your family’s stupid dog, because it was protecting you, would always cause trouble whenever your wife and younger brother were sleeping together. Your grandma got angry and kicked it out, and lately she’s even planning to sell it to a dog meat shop so that when your wife gets pregnant, they won’t have to avoid it.”
“Impossible! Shut up! Shut your damn mouth!”
Lin Ye roared in fury, the veins on his face and neck bulging, his bloodshot eyes looking as if he could kill Ruan Xingyao on the spot.
However, halfway through charging at her, he was stopped by Xie Lin.
Xie Lin was already half a head taller than him, and in terms of strength, Xie Lin completely overpowered him.
So even though Lin Ye was at the peak of his rage, he couldn’t break free from Xie Lin’s grip and could only shout angrily at Ruan Xingyao while restrained.
Ruan Xingyao, having finished her rapid-fire speech, waited a while without feeling Lin Ye rush at her.
Only then did she poke half her head out from behind Shen Jiming.
She looked like a frightened little deer.
Seeing Lin Ye firmly restrained by Xie Lin and unable to pose any threat to her, she finally stepped out from behind Shen Jiming.
Ruan Xingyao kept chattering, “You insisted on making me say it. I already tried to talk you out of it, and you even promised you wouldn’t hit me.”
As she spoke, Ruan Xingyao lowered her lashes and pouted, looking as pitiful as possible.
Like this, she really did seem like an innocent civilian being bullied by dozens of police officers.
Lin Ye took a few deep breaths, forcibly suppressing the anger boiling in his chest.
But his voice still carried agitation. “I told you to talk, not to make things up! You not only insulted me, but you also insulted my family. I’m not letting this go!”
Any man would be furious after being insulted like that.
If it weren’t for the police uniform reminding him to stay rational, he truly would have wanted to tear this little brat into a thousand pieces.
Ruan Xingyao suddenly lifted her lashes and glared at Lin Ye, saying unhappily, “I said I didn’t want to talk, but you kept forcing me. Now I’ve said it and you don’t believe me—what exactly do you want?!”
She was genuinely angry now!
Thinking about how she might have to work with this kind of unreasonable colleague in the future, she instantly regretted signing the contract.
Shen Jiming had been observing Ruan Xingyao’s expressions the whole time.
Seeing signs that she might regret her decision, he quickly stepped in as a mediator.
“Alright, let’s all calm down. We’re all one family here at the police station—let’s talk this out.”
He turned to Ruan Xingyao and asked, “Xiao Ruan, do you have any way to prove what you said is true?”
After all, this whole matter was so explosive that even he, the police chief, had needed a moment to digest it.
Especially since it was his capable subordinate who had been wronged—if it was true, he had to find a way to help get justice.
Ruan Xingyao sharply turned her head to glare at Shen Jiming. “So you don’t believe me either!”
Alright, alright, alright — when coaxing her into signing the contract, they praised her as a special talent.
Now that his subordinate’s been provoked, he’s suddenly asking her to prove her own innocence.
So that’s how it is, huh!
She’s just an outsider after all!
Shen Jiming said, “No, no, I just thought that since you can understand all this, you should also be able to help think of a solution, right?”
As long as Ruan Xingyao helps settle this matter, how could anyone not trust her afterward!
Ruan Xingyao didn’t think much about Shen Jiming’s scheming.
She pursed her lips and said, “There is a way, but it depends on whether he can handle it or not!”
— The end of the Chapter–
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