Villain: Starting as a Corrupt Tycoon's Wife

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"I don't want to talk about this right now."

Liang Man rolled over and lay face down on the bed: "Is that lazy bum harassing you again?"

“He always changes his number and sends me text messages asking how I am doing, but I’ve blocked them all.”

"What kind of bewitching potion did he give your grandfather? Why does he insist that you be with such an ignorant and incompetent person?"

"I don't know, and I don't want to talk about it."

Anxin pressed the back of her hand to her forehead, her mind a jumbled mess.

The interrogation room was coldly lit, and the air felt stagnant.

Ling Yun leaned back leisurely in his chair, legs crossed, his gaze sweeping over the faces of several pale-faced women opposite him. His voice was soft, but every word was clear.

"Confess your crimes honestly, and you will be treated leniently if you confess. If you resist..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yuan Hong interrupted him in a trembling voice: "We'll talk, we'll all talk!"

Her voice was so hoarse she could barely speak. Her gaze swept fearfully toward the two blurry, eerie figures beside Ling Yun. She trembled uncontrollably, like a withered leaf in the wind.

The officers looked at the surveillance footage, exchanging bewildered glances, wondering how Ling Yun had managed it.

As soon as he entered, before he could say more than a few words, the girls screamed in fright and then huddled together.

There was no one else in the monitoring room, but what they didn't know was that Dong Xiaodie and Zhang Xiaoya had just put on a good show together.

Chapter 136 An Xin's Gratitude

"Thank you for today."

An Xin poured Ling Yun a drink, with her senior Liang Man, who had insisted on coming along, beside her: "Without you, that poor girl would probably never rest in peace."

"It should."

Ling Yun's gaze was unconsciously drawn to the woman beside him. It wasn't entirely his fault; after entering the private room, Liang Man used the excuse that the heating was too strong to "inadvertently" unbutton her blouse, allowing him to glimpse her snow-white skin.

She definitely did it on purpose!

Since that's the case, Ling Yun watched openly until Liang Man embarrassedly buttoned up her clothes again.

An Xin didn't notice the interaction between the two and sincerely raised her glass: "I have to go to work today, so I can't drink. I'll drink with you next time."

"Drink less alcohol and eat more food."

Ling Yun then raised his wine glass and clinked it with the two women's glasses.

"It's strange, but the Yuan family didn't really stop Yuan Hong during this interrogation."

An Xin frowned. When she and Liang Man first went to the Yuan family, the Yuan family's attitude was not friendly, only saying that Yuan Hong was not in the capital. But just one night later, the Yuan family respectfully sent their daughter over.

"No matter how powerful they are, do you think they would dare to go against the government?" Liang Man didn't think too much about it.

An Xin shook her head. She didn't think so. The Yuan family's attitude changed very quickly, which was somewhat illogical. Even the next day, the head of the Yuan family was very polite to her, but only to her.

During the meal, Lingyun received a message from Xu Xuan.

"Chairman Ling, are you done on your end?"

"Yes, thank you for your hard work this time."

"No, actually I wasn't able to help much either."

Ling Yun initially thought he was just being modest, but Xu Xuan sent her another message.

"I only used connections to find out about the suspects involved in Ms. Zhang's case back then. Later, I was worried that the Yuan family wouldn't hand over the person, so I wanted to put pressure on them secretly. As a result, Yuan Hong was already sent over by them."

"Not you?"

"No, it must be someone else."

An Xin went to the restroom midway through, and Liang Man took the initiative to sit next to Ling Yun, saying that she was grateful to him for saving the company a lot of trouble.

"If Mr. Ling doesn't mind, could you consider becoming our top interrogation consultant?"

"I will think about it."

Liang Man smiled and waved her phone in front of him: "Want to add me as a friend?"

"Row."

The two exchanged contact information, and Lingyun also added her name to his contact list.

Compared to An Xin's rigid and formal demeanor, Liang Man was much more talkative, keeping her work and private life separate, and she chatted with Ling Yun without any taboos.

When the policewoman returned, she saw her senior sister chatting happily with Ling Yun, and a pang of jealousy rose in her heart.

She remembered what Liang Man had told her.

"You don't want it? Then I'll take it!"

Now it seems that Liang Man wasn't joking with him, but was serious.

After finishing their meal, Liang Man gave An Xin a look and then left first.

Seeing the door to the private room close, An Xin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

My senior sister is much better at chatting than her. She doesn't have high emotional intelligence and is sometimes too businesslike. She's okay at solving cases, but she needs my senior sister to accompany her on interviews and investigations.

"Lingyun, today..."

"No need to say thank you, I've said it many times already."

An Xin smiled and changed the subject: "By the way, where's your female bodyguard? I haven't seen her around."

"She's been quite busy lately, training her apprentices."

"train?"

"almost."

The policewoman, puzzled, put down her cup and said, "If you can, please apologize to her for me. I was being presumptuous before."

"She's so naive, she even complimented me on how pretty you are."

"No, she's much prettier than me, and she has a better figure too..."

At this point in the conversation, Anxin was at a loss for what to say next.

Ling Yun wasn't a smooth talker, and he always had other people around when he ate with An Xin. It was a bit awkward for him to be alone with Officer An right now.

"By the way, Anxin."

"Ok?"

"You've been a police officer for so many years, you must know some strange people, right?"

"Yes, especially on the front lines, you encounter all sorts of strange people."

"Have you ever met someone who was previously unremarkable, but suddenly rose to prominence at some point without any warning?"

An Xin gave a strange smile: "President Ling, are you talking about yourself?"

"akin."

The policewoman frowned and thought for a moment: "I really don't remember, but I'll ask the chief later. He should know more than I do."

"This type of person also has another characteristic, which is that they are usually excessively low-key."

An Xin was taken aback, and subconsciously thought of a certain person.

he?

That's unlikely. A small-time hoodlum who wanders around aimlessly all day shouldn't be the person Ling Yun is looking for.

When Anxin went to pay, she discovered that Liang Man had already paid.

She sent several messages to her senior sister, but only received a mischievous smiling emoji in return.

"Did you succeed?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Tsk, Xiao Anzi, I gave you a chance but you didn't do it! If it were me, I wouldn't have gone to work this afternoon."

An Xin sent an eye-rolling emoji, and Liang Man replied, "A diamond bachelor like Ling Yun is in high demand all over the planet. And I can tell that he has very high standards for his partner. You really need to hurry up and find someone."

"How come you can rush me even more than my mom!"

"I'm just worried about you."

"Then why aren't you worried?"

"Me? Who would like a tomboy like me? Let alone normal men, even prisoners are afraid of me. No boy has ever dared to come near me since I was a child."

Liang Man was tall and strong from a young age, and she was also very good at fighting. In addition, she always kept her hair short, so when she was a child, the students in her school regarded her as the school bully.

An Xin turned off her phone, looked at Ling Yun who was waiting for her, and immediately ran over.

After getting into the car, An Xin said a little embarrassedly, "Sorry, I was just talking to a colleague about something."

"Today I've been thanking you and apologizing, but just words aren't enough."

"Then...then I'll treat you to dinner again next time!"

"I prefer something more concrete than a verbal promise."

Ling Yun leaned down and got close to her face.

An Xin's heart was pounding, but she didn't back down and slowly closed her eyes.

Seeing her like this, Ling Yun smiled wickedly and slowly kissed her.

Their lips touched lightly, and An Xin seemed to wake up with a start, hurriedly pressing her hands against his chest.

"I...I...I have something to do this afternoon..."

"No rush, there's still plenty of time, I'm not going to eat you."

Ling Yun pressed the back of her head and kissed her again.

Chapter 137 Training Disciples [Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets]

Inside a simple self-built house, Gu Tianchen was bound hand and foot, his body covered with hideous wounds.

Snapped!

Feng Xiu brandished the whip in his hand. The leather whip, soaked in salt water, struck with a painful yet loud sound, accompanied by a sonic boom, and another bloody welt appeared on the young master's back.

"Master...uh...uh...uh!"

His delicate skin couldn't withstand such beatings. The smelly sock in his mouth blocked his words, but he still tried to awaken the master-disciple bond between Feng Xiu and him.

Feng Xiu kicked him in the lower back. Gu Tianchen's eyes widened. A surge of true energy flowed from his back into his mouth, where he then spat out the sock.

"Cough cough cough... Ouch~" He grimaced in pain, looking at Feng Xiu who had walked up to him, his expression trembling, not daring to look directly into the other's fierce tiger-like eyes.

Feng Xiu's voice was hoarse, "I hate being lied to the most!"

He raised his hand and lashed out again. Gu Tianchen let out a whimper, and then his crotch turned yellow. He had actually lost control of his bladder from the beating!

Feng Xiu acted as if he hadn't seen anything, grabbing his cheek with one hand, and might crush his head in the next second!

In his excitement, Gu Tianchen soiled himself again, excreting urine and feces. This time, even Feng Xiu took a few steps back in disgust.

"Master... I was wrong, I was really wrong... Please forgive me!"

Feng Xiu snorted coldly: "You don't know you're wrong, you know you're going to die!"

Feng Xiu clenched his fists, and black baleful energy rose from his body.

Before he even made a move, Gu Tianchen felt a sense of suffocation!

Gu Tianchen had also entered the realm of "All Rivers Flow Back to the Source" in his cultivation. In addition, he almost killed Gu Yuan and severely humiliated Gu Jie. The system gave him a lot of rewards, and his cultivation level reached the mid-stage of Bone Forging.

Before going to the Gu family, Feng Xiu would have praised him highly, but now all that's left is the anger of being deceived.

The reason he led Gu Tianchen to forcibly enter the Gu family was because this grandson had lied to him, saying that Gu Yuan was also a martial artist, skilled in a unique technique called "Wild Fist." Furthermore, the Gu family had a reclusive elder who would only intervene when Gu Yuan's life was threatened, and only once.

Who is Feng Xiu? He is obsessed with martial arts, challenging various masters along the way, and has taken several lives. He is even willing to pay any price—even his own life—to spar with top masters.

He had already taken a precaution when he accepted the disciple, just as Gu Tianchen could not completely trust him. He had already planted a trap in this grandson's cultivation method, so no matter how hard Gu Tianchen tried, in the end, his cultivation would not belong to the other party.

However, after hearing Gu Tianchen exaggerate the power of the Wild Fist and the Gu family's offerings, he was genuinely tempted.