Qin Dongkai!
He came looking for trouble himself, so she certainly wouldn’t be polite about it!
The moment the connection went through, Ruan Xingyao was met with a pair of furious, yet lecherous eyes.
Her temper instantly flared, her beautiful eyes narrowing as she snapped, “What do you want?”
Qin Dongkai had originally intended to intimidate Ruan Xingyao, to suppress her with sheer momentum.
But he hadn’t expected that before he could even open his mouth, this female streamer would scold him first.
That left him utterly embarrassed!
He said, “You’re the one who spread rumors about me in your stream. I’m here to demand an explanation!”
After all, this was a live connection with over a hundred million people watching at the same time.
Even though Qin Dongkai was almost beside himself with rage, he still forced himself to act magnanimous.
As if he were some elder, indulgently tolerating a youngster’s nonsense, ready to forgive her so long as she admitted her mistake.
This, too, was the emergency PR tactic his company had come up with—while Ruan Xingyao’s stream was at peak popularity, force her to apologize publicly.
Then he could immediately post a statement to play the victim.
But to his surprise, this supposedly young and easy-to-control streamer wasn’t cooperating at all—on the contrary, she gave him attitude right from the start.
How could he endure that?
Normally, Ruan Xingyao sat upright during her streams, looking elegant and proper.
But now she simply leaned back against the sofa, wearing a look of “I can’t be bothered with you.”
That infuriating demeanor only made Qin Dongkai burn with even more anger.
In all his years in the entertainment industry, this was the first time someone had dared treat him with such blatant disrespect.
His gaze grew darker and more menacing.
He said, “Streamer, you should know that spreading rumors is against the law. I can sue you!”
Ruan Xingyao gave an “oh” and replied, “Go ahead! It’s not like I’m stopping you!”
After all, she hadn’t spread any rumors.
What was there to be afraid of?
Her attitude only made Qin Dongkai lose his composure further.
He ground his teeth and said, “You should know, streamer, that your current popularity didn’t come easily. I only wanted to give you a chance, seeing how young you are. But if I really do sue you, your streaming career will be over.”
Ruan Xingyao still looked utterly uninterested.
Qin Dongkai added, “From what I understand, your financial situation isn’t very good. Are you sure you want to throw away such a great opportunity just for pride?”
Ruan Xingyao let out a mocking laugh, her eyes full of disdain.
“What? You investigated me? And what, you didn’t find out I have another identity? Can you even afford the price of threatening me? If I were you, I’d tuck my tail between my legs and behave!”
Her rapid-fire retort left Qin Dongkai’s face going pale, then green.
So what if she was a so-called special expert for the Ningcheng Police Department?
In his eyes, that was nothing.
A mere prefecture-level police department—what threat could it possibly pose to him?
Could their reach possibly extend all the way to the capital?
As if he had no backers of his own?
Thinking this way, Qin Dongkai managed to calm himself down.
Why should he lower himself to bickering with a little girl? That would only cheapen him!
He said, “No matter what you say, the fact remains that you slandered me. This has severely damaged my reputation. You’ll have to compensate me for all related losses.”
Ruan Xingyao was already losing her patience. She said,
“Whether I slandered you or not, you know very well in your heart. The police will naturally investigate all your dirty deeds. All you need to do is wait quietly to be arrested. But no—you just had to come running here to die early. If I don’t grant your wish, wouldn’t that be wasting the enormous traffic you’ve just delivered me?”
The moment those words fell, Qin Dongkai visibly grew flustered and nervous.
His eyes locked tightly onto the phone camera, as if trying to see through Ruan Xingyao across the screen.
Still, he tried to sound tough. “Streamer, what are you talking about? Don’t tell me you’re trying to say you’ve already heard something from around me?”
Ruan Xingyao nodded. “Congratulations—you guessed right!”
Qin Dongkai froze for a second, then quickly turned to check around him.
He confirmed the doors and windows were shut tight, and the room was empty of any visible small animals.
Only then did he feel relieved.
He even aimed his phone around the entire room and then smugly said to Ruan Xingyao, “See clearly? There are no small animals here. Your little plan to slander me through them won’t work.”
Ruan Xingyao gave another derisive laugh.
She said, “Why is it that all you scum who’ve done filthy things think so highly of yourselves?”
“What do you mean by that?!” Qin Dongkai’s expression grew even more tense.
Could it be… she really had a way?
Ruan Xingyao said, “You just had a meeting here, didn’t you? Plotting how to deal with me, how to whitewash yourself?”
Those words shattered Qin Dongkai’s composure completely.
Panic could no longer be hidden from his eyes.
His fingers gripped the phone tighter without him even realizing.
“What exactly are you trying to say?” Qin Dongkai demanded.
Ruan Xingyao replied, “I’ve already said it before: anything that flies in the sky, runs on the ground, or swims in the water—so long as it exists in this world as an animal—I can understand what it says.”
Qin Dongkai: “But there are no animals here.”
Finally, Ruan Xingyao leaned forward from the sofa, a smiling glint in her narrowed eyes as she looked at the camera.
“How could that be? The fluttering moth on your ceiling is also an animal, isn’t it?”
At her words, Qin Dongkai instantly looked up at the ceiling.
He inspected carefully, and sure enough, next to the ceiling light he spotted a fluttering moth.
In that instant, Qin Dongkai’s heart sank into panic.
He had watched the replay of Ruan Xingyao’s stream with Xu He—she had located that damned cat thanks to an insect on a cherry tree.
Now… could she really know the contents of their earlier meeting through this moth?
No!
He didn’t believe it!
It all had to be coincidence!
Yes—coincidence!
Qin Dongkai’s mind spun in endless circles, frantically trying to think of countermeasures.
But how could Ruan Xingyao possibly give him the chance?
He came knocking on her door himself—if she didn’t send him straight to prison, what kind of special consultant for the police would she be!
Of course, the most important thing was that this case would definitely earn her a huge bonus.
There was no way she’d let that slip away!
Just thinking about it already made Ruan Xingyao excited.
She said, “Qin Dongkai, you’re in your company’s conference room right now, aren’t you? Let me ask this fluttering moth—just how many disgusting things have you done in this conference room!”
Qin Dongkai was about to say something, but Ruan Xingyao cut him off first.
“Oh! It says you often hold beauty selections here—pretending it’s a movie casting, but in reality, you’re just picking playthings. Men and women alike. The clean ones you pass along to the people backing you, and the married ones you drag into your partner-swapping games.”
As she spoke, Ruan Xingyao couldn’t hold back her disgust.
She gagged, her face full of loathing.
— The end of the Chapter–
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