MPLB-14.2 Standing Out for Wang Yibo

“Why are you still hesitant? You should call the police now! What are you waiting for?” Zhan crossed his arms in front of his chest while chuckling coldly, “Unless you’re actually the guilty one here.”

“Why should I feel guilty…”

“Then go ahead and call the police.” One of the onlookers urged her, “A dozen thugs, such a big incident. He had violated the law.”

“Yes, Damini, go call the police, I don’t believe that his bad old man is so great that he can even bend the law!”

“He’s right; nowadays the police are targeting private gangs. Call the police so that bad old man can be sent packing!”

Damini was starting to regret her words now. Her statement that there were more than a dozen thugs seemed too exaggerated.

After all, if this huge frasco had really happened, the police would have received wind of this.

“Damini, call the police now, don’t be intimidated by him!”

“I agree with him, Damini, we must make sure that justice prevails, don’t back off now!?

“He’s right, Damini, what are you afraid of? Make the call now.”

Zhan was smiling gently now to show he wasn’t the least bit worry about the prospect of her calling the police.

On the other hand, Damini wouldn’t dare to report this to the police. If she had made a report about something that never happened, she would be charge with slandering and she would never see the end of it!

Her sole task today was to restore Enjie’s reputation, so she couldn’t let this matter spread any further.

If the truth came to light, Enjie would be irretrievably defeated.

“I…Enjie is really pitiful now, how can I make things worse for her? What if you are going to pressure her again? She will not be able to return to her normal life anymore?”

Damini glanced at her two partners in crime, and both of them stood up. They were about to leave just like this.

“Stop right there!” Zhan’s ruthless voice sounded behind their backs all of a sudden.

“Do you still want to bully us?”

“No, I just want to inform you, since you’ve broke my phone please compensate me.” Zhan said while pointing at his phone on the ground.

“You’re talking nonsense..”

“Just now, you’d slapped my phone onto the ground, and everybody present can be my witness.” Zhan didn’t pick up his phone yet.

His phone was still on the floor. “If she doesn’t want to compensate me, I will reward any of you who help me to call the police.”

Immediately, someone took out his phone and intended to call the police.

This was a piece of cake for anyone.

Zhan’s phone looked like these expensive models! As expected of someone who was being taken care of by a rich guy, his things were not in the same league as a normal student’s stuff.

It was Zanjin who had given him this phone.

Zhan didn’t know about the price, but the things that Young Master Wang’s people prepared for him, how could it be cheap?

“You… you….don’t go too far!” Damini finally recognized the model of his phone on the ground, and her eyes widened with shock!

“Ten thousand Yuan, and won’t pursue this matter anymore, Otherwise , I’ll see you at the police station,” Zhan showed a meek smile.

“Ten thousand Yuan! Why don’t you go rob a bank?” Damini was fuming right now as her face reddened.

Someone in the crowd muttered softly. “This phone is a top model from G brand. Its screen alone cost tens of thousands of Yuan”

Damini almost fainted! The screen cost tens of thousands. If the entire phone was broken, she could not afford it.

Damini walked towards the phone in an attempt to pick it up to see if it was really broken.

Zhan suddenly interrupted, “If you touch it once again, that will cost you fifty thousand Yuan.”

“Xiao Zhan!”

“How about ten thousand Yuan? Are you going to pay me or not? If you don’t, we’ll get the police to verify the price.”

“Zhan, you…you…” Damini suddenly broke in tears with a loud wailing sound.

Ten thousand Yuan! Her total pocket money was at most twenty thousand Yuan!

“Sniff, Zhan, you’ve gone too far…”

“My phone is broken. Whoever help me to call the police? The compensation money will belong to you.”

“Me!”

“Let me do it!”

“Me..”

“Zhan!” Damini was so angry that she was stamping the ground at the moment. “I’ll pay!”

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When he received a message on his phone, he knew that Damini had transferred ten thousand Yuan to his bank account.

Zhan was finally back in his good mood. He exited the school and walked towards the hotel.

He never thought that this phone that Zanjin had given him was so expensive.

The screen cost tens of thousands, The price of the phone itself was unimaginable.

He never knew that there’s such an expensive phone in this world.

His poverty-stricken life had limited his own imagination. Based on his understanding, ten thousand Yuan was definitely extremely luxurious.

Now that he was in such a mess, who would believe that he wasn’t raised by a super-rich man?

After taking away some dishes from a restaurant, he held the food while striding towards the hotel’s entrance.

But just when he had almost arrived at the entrance, he saw a familiar Maybach parked in front of the hotel.

Young Master Wang’s car! Who didn’t recognize this overbearing 8888 license plate?

Was Young Master Wang coming all the way here to look for Darren?

Yibo had argued with him fiercely because he had heard him calling out Darren’s name while still asleep.

Did he come here to look for Darren because of that…

Zhan panicked. He immediately quickened his pace. At the same time, he saw Darren getting out of the car.

“Darren!” He was terrified as he quickly ran up to Darren and protected him behind him.

He looked at Zanjin who was getting off too and said, “Please don’t hurt him!”

Zanjin’s expression froze, “Young mrs, we are..”

“What can you do If I really want to hurt him?”

The car window rolled down. In the back seat, the man had a noble aura. He was always like a high and mighty king!

It was really Yibo! What was he planning this time?

“I’ve told you again and again, Darren and I are just friends, why do you have to come after him like this?”

Zhan couldn’t believe that Yibo had specially come here!

Darren was still recuperating from his injury; he wouldn’t be able to take any more blows than he already had.

“Young mrs, it is not what you think…”

“What if that’s my intention?” Yibo said while exuding a cold aura and his icy gaze which pierced through Zhan face was emotionless.

Zhan looked into his glare as he clenched his fists.

“Right, you’re Young Master Wang, who has power and influence, and you’re always on your high throne and do things according to your own mood!”

He was always just like this, from my previous life until now, he was the same.

He never cared about what I said or did. He never trusted me.

This man, what else did I expect from him.

Zhan held his fists tight and said in a determined and icy tone, “If you really want to hurt him, I won’t just stand here and do nothing!”

Yibo’s lips were pressed into a fine line as he replied, “What are you planning to do then?”

Zhan was so frightened by his icy glare that his fingertips tighten, Zhan wanted to refute him but Darren pulled him gently from behind.

“Young Master Wang only treated me to a meal just now to express his gratitude for saving you last night.”

“Darren…”

“It’s true,” Darren nodded at him. There was a tenderness in his eyes that even the man sitting in the car could feel it.

“Drive.” Yibo snorted.

Zanjin looked at him before stealing a glance at Zhan.

In the end, he climbed into the driver’s seat somewhat helplessly.

In the blink of an eye, this Maybach which was not dazzling, but everyone knew that it was valuable, disappeared at the end of the road.

Zhan looked in the direction where the car disappeared and was slightly stunned.

He was still in a trance right now. When Darren took over the bag of food in his hand, Zhan only came back to reality.

“Let’s get in first.”

Darren carried the food and led the way into the hotel.

Zhan averted his gaze and followed him.

“Why did he come to look for you?” After closing the door, Zhan looked at him and asked directly.

He didn’t believe that Yibo was here just to treat Darren a meal.

His memories were still intact. He knew fully well that Yibo was in a furious state in the morning when he left the room.

Half of his anger was because of Darren.

“Did he threaten you?”

Darren sat down on a chair and looked at him briefly, Suddenly, he laughed, “Do you think I will be threatened by anybody?”

In the whole world, the only one who could threaten him was.. Only Zhan, but he was unaware of this fact.

“But…”

“You should eat first. Aren’t you hungry?” Darren opened the plastic bags and arranged the food on the table, “Do we need to leave some for Jili and Chuyue?”

“There’s no need for that, the two of them must have settled their meals outside.”

“Darren…” Zhan bit his lips as he hesitated.

“If it’s still about Young Master Wang, you don’t need to ask me anything. You just need to remember that nothing bad has happened to me.”

Afraid that Zhan was still worried, Darren lifted his palm outwards and swore, “I promise.”

“As long as you’re fine.” Zhan still looked disturbed.

When he recalled what Yibo had done to him this morning, he couldn’t shake off that heavy feeling in his heart. He still felt that something was weighing down on him.

At that time, Yibo pinned him underneath him, and his burning skin was stuck to him intimately. If Yibo had continued further that time, Zhan would be done in by him!

At that moment, Yibo was fully ready to go into him….

Zhan couldn’t help but shudder at the thought of this! Whenever he recalled that moment, he would blush as well as feel anxious!

He was just inches away from actually doing it with him…

“What’s wrong? What’s on your mind?” Darren looked up at him and asked, “Aren’t you going to eat?”

“Of course I will!” How could I not? After that tiring ordeal in the school, he was famished right now. It was already past one o’clock.

“So you’re really not planning to tell me what happened between you and Young Master Wang?”

“I’ll tell you when the time is right.”

“Why do you need to act so mysterious?” Zhan rolled his eyes at him.

After both of them had filled their stomachs, Darren suddenly asked, “What are you going to do two years later? Are you really going to marry Young Master Wang?”

Zhan was eighteen now, and according to a law in Beijing, the legal age for marriage is twenty years old.

He would be twenty exactly two years later.

“How is that possible?” Zhan was still fumbling around with the peas as he replied nonchalantly, “I can’t even be sure that I will survive these two years.”

Their deal would be cancelled at any time as long as it was Young Master Wang’s will.

“Survive?” Darren squeezed his eyebrows as he found it strange to use this word in Zhan sentence, “Are you unhappy being with Young Master Wang?”

“Do you think you will be happy if you’re facing a cold and scary person every day?”

Darren didn’t answer him, but it seemed like what Zhan had said was true.

Could it be that this boy was not planning to marry Young Master Wang in the first place?

“He’s not suitable for me. No, it’s more accurate to say that I’m not suitable for him.”

Otherwise, I wouldn’t be so regretful in my previous life to the point that I wouldn’t be able to get rid of it even before I died.

Yibo and I were just two lines which were intertwining with each other for some unknown reason. When the knot was untied, we would have nothing to do with each other anymore.

“Well, two years will fly by in the blink of an eye.” Some things wouldn’t be certain until the day it happened.

Darren still wanted to say something, but a knocking sound on the door interrupted him.

Zhan got up to open the door.

Jili stormed into the room and started to complain, “Lu Enjie is really too shameless! Zhan, look at this, how can there be someone as wicked as her in this world?”

A socialite from the Lu family had been force to ruin her own reputation.

This was a piece of information posted by an unknown account on Weibo, but it was spread far and wide by other huge media outlets. As for the content of the post, nothing concrete had been revealed. Instead, things were implied in parts and pieces.

The hint was that a socialite surnamed Lu had pretended to be broadcasting previously. In reality, she had been controlled by some power and had no choice but to cooperate.

There was no name or description in the entire article. There was not even a detailed of the incident. It looked like something that came out of nowhere.

The only credibility of this post was that it was highly related to Lu Enjie’s latest post on Weibo, It was not hard for people to imagine what was going on.

It turned out that Enjie had posted something on Weibo last night.

It was very late into the night.

The contents sounded like she was complaining about something. In reality, it was all about how much she had suffered and how she had been wronged.

When people put these two posts on Weibo side by side, could there be anyone who wouldn’t see the connection?

That damned Enjie, actually dared to make such a move!

“A lot of rumors are going around right now. They said that you are being backed up by a formidable and rich person. That is why Enjie was forced to do that live broadcast and ridiculed herself.”

Jili was very angry. Although the man behind Zhan was indeed very powerful, Enjie was by no means ridiculing herself.

What was wrong with public opinions around on the internet nowadays? The outcome should have been dead set, yet Enjie could still turn things around in her favor somehow.

It was unbelievable!

There were a lot of comments below that applaud this sudden turn of events as they praised Enjie for being a reasonable person since she was a socialite after all.

There were even people who had dug up Enjie’s positive side from the past and it was tremendously very advantageous for her.

She had been an excellent student since she was young. She had studied in SK University previously.

SK University was the best university in all of Beijing. The students studying there wouldn’t frame others in the first place:

Of course, such comments were all made by internet ghostwriters, and they were able to confuse all the neutral onlookers on the internet.

These people would just follow the majority when it came to believing things on the internet.

One of them was a very excellent daughter cum socialite from a wealthy family with a pretty face and gentle disposition.

On the other hand, ugly boy was a failure in his studies with a mediocre appearance. He even smoking, drinking and put on heavy make-up.

It was easy to imagine which side the public opinion would go to.

Nobody could foresee that Enjie would be able to restore her reputations after it was seemingly destroyed beyond hope.

This was a great chess move by her.

And in the blink of an eye, someone posted Zhan’s incident at school.

The photos were showing Zhan looming over a pitiful looking girl who was on the ground.

The photos had made Zhan looked like he was bullying her.

The anonymous poster was also using an unknown account to post these photos in the comment section. They were not posted as a Weibo post.

Despite that, this particular reply in the comment section was liked by many and it became the most popular reply in no time.

As expected, most of the internet warriors were cursing at Zhan for bullying others with his position. They could even recognize the model of the phone that he was using.

“Are you bullied in school at noon?” Darren clenched his fists after viewing the photos on Jili’s phone.

Zhan looked like blocked by a large group of people at school. He was alone and weak. It was obvious he was the one getting bullied here!

But when he came back to the hotel, he never brought this up at all. So Darren was in the dark all the time.

“I didn’t get bullied at all, I even earned ten thousand Yuan in the process, How does that mean that I’m getting bullied?”

“Yes, they are saying that you have forced her to transfer you ten thousand Yuan.” Jili showed the display of his phone while fuming. “Look at this!”

Unsurprisingly, Damini’s proof of transfer of payment for that ten thousand Yuan had been uploaded too.

The whole thing was abuzz. In short, it was a mess.

“They are saying that the students from SU University are more reserved and noble that the students from BD University, What the hell is this!”

Jili scrolled through the comments while complaining. He was so angry that his cheeks hurt!

“This is too much! All the males students from BJ University are also commenting that the girls and gers from SK University are prettier than those from BJ University. Are they still on our side now?”

“They didn’t even help their own school. Damn it!”

They were too despicable!

“They are just saying that the girls and gers from BJ University are not that pretty, they aren’t saying that the guys from BJ University are ugly. What does this have to do with them?”

Zhan sat together with them while rubbing his brows.

He did not want to cause so much trouble, but he did not want to see the other party not willing to stop.

Darren’s expression was getting rigid by the minute so Zhan immediately quipped, “Darren, this issue can’t be resolved by using violence. Please don’t act recklessly.”

Looking for Enjie or Damini, there was no meaning at all, right?

And to top it off, if someone huge and muscular like him were to meddle in this affair, Darren wouldn’t be able to clear his own name anymore when things got out of control. He would be branded as the villain mercilessly by then.

“So what should we do now? Zhan, are you going to watch Enjie restoring her name and then destroying our reputation?”

This matter was clearly planned long ago.

Jili continued to vent his frustrations while reading the posts on Weibo.

After a moment, he suddenly widened his eyes, “Oh my, Zhan! You’re in trouble! Your backer has been… dug out!”

Who else could it be? Of course it was Young Master Wang!

“No, no, they’re not digging for Young Master Wang, they are digging for the financial backer behind you…”

“What the hell are you trying to say?” Chuyue stared at Jili as he couldn’t understand anything that he had been blabbering about.

Wasn’t the man behind Zhan Young Master Wang?

But to be specific, Young Master Wang was not really his financial backer.

Young Master Wang was so rich, but Zhan was so poor that he was like a ghost. Even his business only had this little funds.

If Young Master Wang was really Zhan’s financial backer, Zhan wouldn’t need to go through so much trouble right now!

Taking tens of thousands Yuan to start his business! Young Master Wang’s boy, why was he so shabby?

His friends knew very well that the nature of the relationship between Zhan and Yibo was that of an arranged marriage, and nothing more than that.

Zhan also said that in two years, he and Young Master Wang would have nothing to do with each other. Young Master Wang’s money naturally had nothing to do with him.

This was the reason he was working very hard to earn money on his own to run a business.

It was an insult to his character to brand him as someone who was relying on a back for money.

There wasn’t anyone close to that who was backing Zhan up.

“No, no. I mean, Take a look at Weibo yourself. What they said is that Young Master Wang doesn’t care about Zhan at all. It’s just a family marriage.”

“They are saying that Zhan has another financial backer at the moment. The one who gave Zhan money to spend lavishly. He is a bad old man.”

Zhan continued to rub his forehead. He had nothing to say.

The internet was a rather amazing invention.

White can be said to be black, and red can also be turned into yellow and green.

In short, wherever there was a internet, perhaps there would never be a so-called truth.

The people would just believe anything that most people were talking about at any point of time.

They were just following rumors blindly.

This ugly Xiao Zhan was not only ugly, but also troublesome person.

As for Young Master Wang, everybody knew his power and influence in Beijing.

Who would believe that Young Master Wang would sincerely be engaged to such a terrible boy?

The development of things were getting out of hand as time dragged on.

Someone had started a rumor that Zhan was seen helping Old Madam Wang to cross the road.

They were theorizing that Zhan had made this happen because he knew of Old Madam Wang’s identity. He was trying to convince Old Madam Wang that he was a kind boy so that Old Madam Wang would give him grandson and Zhan her blessing.

This speculation of the turn of events was even more wonderful than a novel!

Jili widened his eyes as he suddenly caught on to something, “Oh my, they even posted photos of you and Darren entering the hotel together.”

Chuyue had seen something even more terrible!

“They’re… they’re blocking the entrance of the hotel, vowing to catch the cheater for Young Master Wang! They are going to make sure Young Master Wang’s reputation is preserved!”

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