Chapter 7 (1/2)

Ye Chen was surprised—it was a female voice he heard talking to him.

He turned around, and as expected, he found himself facing a woman.

The woman had a tall height of 1.7 meters, and she was dressed in an immaculate uniform. She looked oppressively handsome in her slim-fit camo top and straight-cut camo pants.

From her I.D., Ye Chen found out that her name was Bai Libing and she was a troop leader.

Bai Libing noticed that the man who was standing still had the nerve to stare at her bosoms, and she was infuriated. She continued, “On your knees and put your hands behind your head! This is the second warning!”

Ye Chen remained motionless. As Bai Libing was about to give him his third warning, Sun Yi rushed forward and grabbed Ye Chen’s hands without hesitating. She raised both of them to the top of his head and forced Ye Chen to kneel.

After doing all that, she kneeled beside him. She whispered to Ye Chen, “Now’s not the time to space out. They’ll really kill you. Later on, we’ll give the police our statement and we should be able to walk away free. This place is under security camera surveillance anyway. It’ll prove that you did everything out of self-defense… It’ll be fine.”

Ye Chen was not up to do any sort of explaining. Hence, he merely nodded.

Only then did Bai Libing relax. For reasons unknown, something told her that the gangly young boy was someone dangerous.

She scanned the surrounding area. It was obvious that a fight had occurred. However, when she noticed that it was Chen Zhengguo who was on his knees, she stood frozen on her spot.

Why in the world would he be on his knees?

He was none other than the leader of the Chen family! Some rumors even claimed that he was the chairperson of a chamber of commerce.

Without a second thought, she ordered, “Lil Zhou, confiscate the security surveillance footage here. Then, ask the hotel for a copy of their guest register.”

“Chief, what about the rest of the people?” Lil Zhou asked.

Bai Libing’s eyebrows twitched, and her crystal voice was heard again. “Bring everyone in!”

…

8 p.m., at the front gate of a building in River City.

Ye Chen and Sun Yi finally walked out of the place. This time, the authorities did not bring everyone in solely for investigation purposes. However, they were trying to get a complete picture of the incident through everyone’s statements.

The authorities also went through the surveillance footage at the hotel and came up with a general understanding of the incident. However, a peculiarity stood out to the authorities—the fight between Ye Chen and the old man from the Chen family seemed to have been split in half, only a huge patch of static snow was left on the screen.

With that section of the footage missing, Ye Chen appeared to have been defending himself justly. Therefore, they could not retain Ye Chen.

Sun Yi inhaled the air outside in deep breaths and then said in a voice full of emotion, “Ah, nothing beats being outside. I never want to go back to that place a second time in this lifetime. Once I get home, I’ll have a clean shower for sure to thoroughly wash off all the bad luck.”

Ye Chen said nothing. He was well aware that the existence of Chen Zhengguo and his son was still a ticking time bomb to Sun Yi.

Once Ye Chen left River City, Sun Yi would definitely be the victim of the Chen family’s anger!

Despite the tragedy that happened five years ago, Ye Chen had to take action for Sun Yi!

“‘Seems like I’ll have to find some time to visit those two personally,” Ye Chen muttered under his breath.

“What? What did you say? Who are you visiting?” Sun Yi curiously asked while patting Ye Chen as she thought she heard him speak.

Ye Chen scratched his head and attempted to cover up by saying, “I was just thinking to myself. I only arrived in River City recently and I’ve no idea where I can go to for accommodation.”

Sun Yi facepalmed herself. She recalled that Ye Chen had come all the way from the countryside to River City to promote his secret formula. Judging by his financial status, he definitely could not afford a hotel room. If it was not for the delay at the police station, she assumed that he would have returned to his village long ago.

Based on these assumptions, it was her fault that Ye Chen had to go through it.

Sun Yi hesitated for a while before she firmly said, “What about this? You can stay over at my house for a night. I have a spare bedroom. It’s not very spacious but it’s better than sleeping in the park, right?”