Chapter 1575 - 1590: The Scam Artist Girl

Chapter 1575: Chapter 1590: The Scam Artist Girl

Lin Mu shook his head, feigning seriousness, "Your sorrow is my sorrow. Your troubles are my troubles. How can I be happy if you’re not? Hey, Sister Nan, at this point, I don’t want to hide it from you anymore. In fact, my feelings for you are truly as clear as the heavens, the moon represents my heart... uh, don’t go, I’m not done yet..."

Watching Song Yanan’s face turn crimson as she hurriedly left, almost fleeing, Lin Mu grinned smugly.

"Heh, with just this little skill, you still want to compete with me."

Slipping out of the company, Lin Mu went to a pharmacy and bought some gauze and alcohol, quickly treating his wound, and then drove to the hotel. Unfortunately, Ling Xiaoqiao had already checked out and left.

Damn it, nothing but air, and Lin Mu felt really uncomfortable. Just then, his phone suddenly started ringing.

It was Zhang Man. In fact, Zhang Man hadn’t intended to contact Lin Mu, but the sudden incident in the morning completely threw her off balance because Liu Genyou fainted again, and this time right in the middle of a district leadership work meeting. Though he quickly regained consciousness, his poor health was undeniable. Once this news got out, an undercurrent surged through Wancheng’s police system, and the political dynamics began to shift swiftly. Liu Genyou had barely left the hospital when he received a call from the Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission.

Someone couldn’t wait to rise to power. If Liu Genyou’s health didn’t improve soon, a ’medical retirement’ was almost a certainty.

Bang! Liu Genyou slammed his hand down on the coffee table, his face livid with anger, "This is too much, way too much! I haven’t even been knocked down yet, and those bastards are already plotting to usurp my position, cough, cough..."

"Don’t be angry."

Zhang Man poured him a cup of warm water and placed it in front of him, gently saying, "People strive towards higher positions just like water flows to lower places; that’s just how the officialdom operates. Let it go. It’s really not worth harming your health over something like this."

"As true as that is, I just can’t swallow this bitterness!"

Liu Genyou exhaled a turbid breath, visibly aggrieved, "All these years, I’ve been meticulous and conscientious, not knowing how many major and unresolved cases I’ve cracked. Even if there’s no credit, there’s certainly effort, right? But look at how those above treat me? Hmph, the flour isn’t even finished grinding, and they want to kill the donkey that plows the mill; it’s simply bullying!"

"All these years, you still haven’t seen through it? What they want isn’t your ability to solve cases, it’s your ability to do the dirty..."

Zhang Man sighed deeply, and stopped speaking.

Liu Genyou remained silent, though his expressions kept changing, lost in his thoughts.

Setting aside whether this self-proclaimed upright and straightforward Liu Genyou will change because of this incident for now, let’s move the scene to 500 meters away from their location in the Lotus District, where Lin Mu was sitting in the car, staring in amazement at a girl on the ground in front of him. Of course, the girl had been hit by him — more accurately, she had thrown herself in front of him; commonly known as staging an accident!

"Look at you, damn it! Do you even know how to drive? Are you courting death? How could you run someone over and get them under your car?" Three long-haired hooligans appeared as if sent by the heavens, swooping down out of nowhere from some obscure corner.

The leader of the gang, nose-ringed and with a tousled broomstick hair dyed a ghastly green, grabbed Lin Mu by the collar and began cursing, "So you think you’re something because you drive a luxury car? You hit my girlfriend, and you think this ends here today?"

"Let’s talk it out, no need to get physical, okay?"

Lin Mu frowned, weighing his options of either crippling the punk with a kick or slapping him to provide more business for a dental hospital, but just then the girl on the ground seemingly got up painfully, holding her head while Xiao Jiao spoke up, "Brother Xiaoqiong, he didn’t mean to. Don’t give him a hard time. I’m just a little dizzy, it’ll be fine with some rest."

"What?" Brother Xiaoqiong exclaimed, "How could you feel dizzy out of nowhere? No doubt it’s because of the crash. No way, he has to take us to the hospital to get checked, a brain CT, an MRI, and also full blood and urine tests..."

These days, hitting someone with a car is definitely trouble. Not mentioning other stuff, just visiting the hospital for a check-up would cost thousands, let alone compensation for missed work, nutrition, hospitalization fees, etc. Basically, a bottomless pit, you’d never fill it no matter how much money you pour in. If it were anyone else, under the duet between Xiaoqiong and the girl, they’d surely lose their nerve, and even if it means spending a bit more, they’d propose a private settlement voluntarily.

But Lin Mu didn’t. He suddenly found the whole thing quite amusing. Anyway, he had time to kill, might as well entertain himself with these kids.

Ordinary accident scams usually involve a crafty elderly woman teamed up with a rugged youth, hitting you with a barrage of threats and extortion, nothing new. However, this little gang was different. Not only did they use a young girl as the key figure, but they also played the good cop-bad cop routine, leaving enough room for the defrauded victim to breathe. What intrigued Lin Mu the most was the girl herself; despite her rebellious makeup, she exuded a noble aura, clearly from a well-off family. At least, ordinary girls wouldn’t be so nimble, let alone expertly perform such a high-skill level scam, executing it flawlessly.

"Hey, I’m talking to you, didn’t you hear, you damn fool?" Seeing Lin Mu silent for a long time, Brother Xiaoqiong raised his eyebrows and stepped forward menacingly, "What are you going to do about this today?"

Naming someone Xiaoqiong really does attract trouble, but suddenly Lin Mu got interested, an idea sprouting in his head.

He deliberately put on a nervous look and weakly said, "What... what do you want?"

Surrendered? Xiaoqiong and the girl exchanged a glance, joy blooming simultaneously in their hearts.

"Hmph, you’re lucky. My girlfriend has a kind heart and doesn’t want to make things difficult for you."

He slapped Lin Mu’s shoulder casually, Brother Xiaoqiong demanded a king’s ransom, "Why don’t you just give us a trivial compensation of ten thousand yuan, and we’ll let this matter go, okay?"

"Ten thousand yuan? Are you extorting me?" Lin Mu feigned a shocked expression.