Lin Nian sank to the floor and began to cry pitifully, tears falling like rain.
The surrounding crowd started pointing and murmuring.
"That girl is so aggressive. The other one didn’t even do anything wrong."
"Exactly. First hitting someone, then trashing the shop. And she’s supposed to be a college student?"
"But what’s the real story? Did she actually steal her boyfriend? Who was with that guy first?"
The more Sun Lili heard, the more she struggled to keep her composure.
After all, it was true that Lin Nian had been with Shen Feng first.
’But hadn’t they broken up? Who was Lin Nian putting on this weepy, helpless act for? Doesn’t she know Ah Feng is with me now? Why is she still trying to cling to him?!’
At this thought, Sun Lili grew even more irritated. She raised her hand to slap Lin Nian again, but her wrist was seized.
She turned to look and said in surprise, "Ah Feng, what are you doing here?"
Shen Feng had planned to come over today. Lin Nian had told him excitedly that the barbershop was open, and she wanted to design a special hairstyle just for him, one unlike anyone else’s.
Shen Feng had chuckled at the time. ’There are only so many hairstyles for a guy,’ he had thought. ’Could she really do something that spectacular with it?’
In fact, he had recently started sleeping with Lin Nian again.
The reason was simple: his home life was a mess. To this day, Shen Feng refused to call Shen Zhengfeng "Dad," and Shen Zhengfeng, in turn, felt no affection for him.
His aunt, Shen Xiaoya, had moved in with her husband, and the house was in a constant state of turmoil.
As for his girlfriend, Sun Lili, she had been throwing temper tantrums ever since she ran into Lin Nian at the bookstore.
Shen Feng tried to placate her at first, but when the Sun family seemed to forbid them from seeing each other, he couldn’t be bothered to keep trying.
Then, he saw one of Qin Jiao’s commercials on TV. Seeing her become more and more successful and her relationship with Shen Yi flourish only made Shen Feng more agitated.
In the end, it was with Lin Nian that he finally found the peace and tenderness he had been missing for so long.
So, when Lin Nian mentioned she wanted to open a barbershop and asked if Shen Feng could lend her some money, he agreed.
Not only that, but he also rented a small house for Lin Nian near North City Technology University. The two of them were essentially living there like a young married couple.
Poor Sun Lili. She still treated Shen Feng like a treasure, completely smitten, thinking she was his one and only.
Seeing that the situation was about to escalate, Shen Feng had no choice but to intervene and stop Sun Lili. He said to Lin Nian, "I’ll be back for you later," and then pulled Sun Lili away.
Once the main actors in the drama had left, the crowd slowly dispersed.
Once the onlookers had all drifted away, the two girls Lin Nian had hired, who were about her age, cautiously asked, "Sister Lin, are you okay?"
"I’m fine." Gone was the panicked, wronged expression of a frightened rabbit. Lin Nian coldly wiped the tears from her face and told the two young women to clean up the mess.
She said, "Go take inventory of everything that was broken and calculate the cost. I’m going to make that Sun Lili pay for every last cent!"
’In the original novel, Sun Lili was just a brainless cannon-fodder side character. Lin Nian had never taken her seriously.’
’This time, she had deliberately called Shen Feng over so he would see Sun Lili throw a fit.’
’After a scene like this, Shen Feng would surely dump Sun Lili.’
Lin Nian stared at her reflection in the glass window.
’I may have made a misstep before, but I haven’t lost yet!’
’Just you watch, Qin Jiao. The one who has the last laugh, the one who becomes the richest man’s wife—that will be me!’