In the darkness, the man realized he couldn’t run away anymore, turned his head to look behind him, where the other two men had already been subdued. Gritting his teeth, he picked up a brick from the corner of the wall and charged forward.
Lin Chuxia noticed his movement and casually pulled out a baseball bat from her space, which she had prepared especially for self-defense.
With a handy weapon in her hand, Lin Chuxia was not afraid at all, even though her opponent was a man.
As he raised the brick high above, Lin Chuxia swung her baseball bat squarely onto his arm. Accompanied by a dull thud and the man’s scream, the brick fell to the ground.
Lin Chuxia had a clear view of the man’s face; it was Liu Dahui, Sun Lanlan’s man from her past life.
The man’s presence here now was undoubtedly related to tonight’s events; combined with the memories of her past life, old and new hatred surged in her heart.
Ignoring the man’s screams, Lin Chuxia swung the baseball bat at him relentlessly.
Su Wensong and Sun Bingnan had already subdued the other two men. Seeing the situation over at Lin Chuxia’s side, they pressed down the two men and came over to help.
Instead, they saw Lin Chuxia wielding a big bat, while the man on the ground was rolling around in pain, begging for mercy, which involuntarily made the corners of their lips twitch.
The other two unfortunate men, realizing their luck, felt relieved that they didn’t end up in this woman’s hands.
“Chuxia, that’s enough, you’re about to beat him to death,” Sun Bingnan said as the screams from the man on the ground softened, reminding her to stop.
Sun Lanlan, also afraid of a fatality, walked over and hugged her arm, “Xiaxia, stop beating him.”
Lin Chuxia’s pent-up anger was nearly vented, and with one last vicious kick at Liu Dahui, she spat, “You scum, don’t think this is over.”
She turned to Sun Bingnan and the others and said, “We need to take them to the police station.”
“Right, to the police, let them rot in their cells.”
Sun Bingnan had no intention of letting these men off easy. A beating was too lenient for them.
If it weren’t for their timely arrival, who knows what might have happened.
Hearing they were about to be taken to the police station, the men Su Wensong and Sun Bingnan were holding panicked.
“We… we didn’t have bad intentions, we just wanted to scare this female comrade.”
They shouldn’t have mentioned it; before they could finish, Su Wensong punched one of the men in the stomach, “You call this no bad intentions? I could beat you to death right now and still not have bad intentions, believe it or not?”
“We really weren’t… really weren’t…”
The men stuttered; there had been a crackdown recently, and being sent to the police station would be the end of them.
At the least, they would be imprisoned; at worst, they could end up facing bullets.
Thinking of that possibility, cold sweat poured down their faces. They pointed at Liu Dahui, whose face was beaten beyond recognition, and said,
“It was him who told us to scare this female comrade. It was just a scare; after that, he would pretend to be a hero to save her. It was just a joke with this female comrade; we wouldn’t have done anything bad.”
Sun Bingnan, who was still wondering why Liu Dahui was there, grew furious upon hearing that it was Liu Dahui’s setup, and kicked him a few more times.
“Damn you, are you trying to ruin my sister’s reputation?”
Liu Dahui didn’t want to go to the police station either. Hearing that the other man was Sun Lanlan’s brother, he could only accept his bad luck and confessed everything.
“I just wanted to be friends with Lanlan, really, I admit my methods may have been wrong, but I really didn’t mean any harm to Lanlan; I genuinely like her.”
He wanted to be friends with Sun Lanlan, and then date her, but she gave him no chance.
He thought his sincere heart might touch her, even going so far as to run twenty kilometers to her Bun Shop every day.
But what happened?
This flirtatious woman, surrounded by several men, simply didn’t notice him.
Liu Dahui was not content. His aunt had said that the Sun Family had intended to marry Sun Lanlan to him, but it fell through because she started working.
Why should she look down on him just because she had a job?
Hearing that she earned forty to fifty yuan a month, Liu Dahui grew all the more eager to get his hands on Sun Lanlan.
Whether people or money, it should all have been his.
And, Sun Lanlan never made an impression on him before, but that day when he came to the Bun Shop, he recognized her from among several women at a glance. Liu Dahui had an intuition that Sun Lanlan was supposed to be his wife.
As long as he tarnished her reputation, the men circling her would care, and then he’d have his aunt propose marriage again. A woman with a ruined reputation would be at his mercy.
Lin Chuxia had guessed Liu Dahui’s intentions; this scum truly wasn’t fit to be human in either life.
“Make friends? Who do you think you are? Is this how you make friends? Third brother, don’t waste words with them; take them all to the police station.”
Since there were three of them, Lin Chuxia and Sun Lanlan also followed Su Wensong and Sun Bingnan to the police station.
As it turned out, Sun Hao was on duty.
At first glance, he thought Lin Chuxia had been robbed again.
He thought these small-time thieves had no eyes; he had seen Lin Chuxia’s skills.
But when he heard it was about harassing a woman, he took it seriously.
Sending small thieves to the police station is common, but harassing women is different in nature.
Such people who endangered social stability must be severely punished.
After the statements were recorded, with both the victims and witnesses present, and the perpetrators confessing their actions almost immediately—even if their statements matched those of Lin Chuxia’s group—their behavior was nonetheless vile.
Before leaving, Su Wensong added, “Earlier, this Liu Dahui had attempted to intercept Sun Lanlan on the road, and then he came to the Bun Shop every day. Comrade Sun, doesn’t this count as premeditated?”
Hearing this, Sun Hao turned to the recording officer, “Make sure to note this as well. Such behavior is utterly despicable; it’s clearly premeditated and planned.”
At this, Liu Dahui struggled to stand up. “Police comrade, I didn’t plan this, he’s talking nonsense; I knew Sun Lanlan before, I really just wanted to be friends with her. It’s him, he’s slandering me, he has ulterior motives; police comrades, you can’t just listen to one side of the story…”
“Whether it’s one-sided or not, it’s been clear from what was said earlier,” Sun Hao glanced at Liu Dahui, “Take them down and lock them up for now, we’ll interrogate them tomorrow.”
Coming out of the police station, Sun Lanlan’s fingers were still trembling, Lin Chuxia knew she was frightened, and stayed with her.
“This should give you some peace of mind; the police comrades will not let them off.”
For the crime of hooliganism, they’d be sentenced to several years at least, and with this incident, Sun Lanlan would surely not marry Liu Dahui. Lin Chuxia felt much more relieved.
Sun Bingnan spat viciously, “Truly bad luck; what is Liu Dahui? Why does he think my sister would marry him?”
During the testimony, Liu Dahui said he liked Sun Lanlan and that the Sun Family had also intended to marry her to him, which is why he acted this way.
He didn’t intend to harm Sun Lanlan, he just used the wrong way.