Chapter 90: 90, they really ran away for good!

“What? Su Guang slept here on the floor last night?”

The crowd buzzed with disbelief. “Didn’t he keep bragging that he was staying in the presidential suite with some prince? Good heavens, so these four sleeping mats are the so-called presidential suite!”

As Su Hua’s words sank in, the scene fell into a dead silence, which was promptly shattered by a chaotic uproar.

“Su Mengqing! Give us our money back! Your dad scammed all of us, and you said you’d take responsibility!”

“That son of a bitch! He really preys on his own relatives!”

“He scammed us once four years ago, and now, four years later, a leopard can’t change its spots!”

All of the Su family’s friends and relatives were enraged. They surged forward, surrounding Su Mengqing and her family, their voices a cacophony of angry shouts.

“Su Hua! How dare you hit my sister? You must have a death wish!” Su Gang blustered from his wheelchair, though he instinctively flinched back.

“Heh, so what if I hit your sister? She’s a damn con artist, doesn’t she deserve it?” Su Hua laughed with rage and swung his hand.

SLAP!

The crisp sound of the slap echoed through the alley.

Stunned, Su Gang dumbly covered the bright red handprint on his face. This man was just his cousin, someone who used to bow and scrape before his family, fawning over them obsequiously. Who would have thought he’d now dare to resort to violence?

“Su Hua! Are you trying to start a rebellion?!” Zhang Meili’s chubby face contorted with shock and fury as she clawed at Su Hua’s eyes.

“I put all my wedding savings into this!” Su Hua’s eyes were bloodshot, practically spitting fire.

SLAP!

He slapped Zhang Meili across the face, but that still wasn’t enough to quell his anger. He followed it up with a vicious kick that sent her sprawling to the ground.

“Rebellion! This is absolute rebellion! You bastard, you dare hit me!” Zhang Meili wailed from the ground, clutching her abdomen and screaming shrilly.

“Su Hua, do you have any idea what that slap will cost you?”

Just then, Su Mengqing, who had been dazed for a long moment, finally snapped back to reality. She glared at Su Hua, her eyes a web of fine red veins. “You brought all our relatives here to stir up trouble with ulterior motives. I just hope you can afford the consequences when your scheme is exposed!”

“Consequences? What consequences? I’m completely ruined! I’ve got nothing left to lose, so why the hell would I be afraid of you?” A crazed look entered Su Hua’s eyes as he shouted to the crowd, “Last night, the more I thought about it, the more something felt wrong. I came over here before dawn and started asking around. I went to that little supermarket, and they told me Su Guang bought two bedrolls last night! And just a little while ago, I personally saw Su Guang and that so-called Prince of Sha Country get into a second-hand minivan and take off!”

He pulled out his phone, holding it high above his head like a banner. “If you don’t believe me, I have a video! You can see for yourselves!”

BOOM!

His hysterical roar shook the entire area. The crowd surged forward, craning their necks to stare at Su Hua’s phone screen.

One second, two seconds, three seconds… after a full ten seconds passed, they slowly turned their heads to look at Su Mengqing’s family as if they were looking at corpses.

THUMP!

Su Mengqing’s face went deathly pale, and she collapsed to the ground, her eyes filled with despair.

“Mengqing, your dad… no, that old bastard Su Guang… I think he’s really run away again!” Zhang Meili scrambled over to Su Mengqing, her face a mask of terror as she began to cry.

“No, that’s impossible… My dad would never scam us a second time…” Su Gang gripped the armrests of his wheelchair, his forehead slick with sweat.

Off to the side, a look of apprehension crossed Yang Tingting’s face. She quietly backed into the crowd, then turned and walked away.

The Su family is finished, completely and utterly doomed! Without that five hundred million, they can’t even repay the bank loans, let alone the debts to all these relatives! With the whole enterprise collapsing, I have to find a way out for myself!

“Mengqing, Su Gang, don’t blame me,” she muttered to herself as she reached the mouth of the alley. Yang Tingting took out her car keys and started Su Mengqing’s white BMW, her expression hardening. “I’ve served your family like a dog for four years. This is what I’ve earned!”

With that, she slammed her foot on the accelerator and roared away.

“Su Mengqing, pay us back!”

“Pay us back, and compensate us for the losses from our stock prices dropping!”

Back in the alley outside the clinic, the relatives and friends had all dropped their friendly facades, hounding Su Mengqing’s family of three. Some had even rolled up their sleeves, looking ready for a fight.

“Hmph, why should my family pay you back?” Zhang Meili viciously wiped her tears and shrieked, her eyes red and swollen. “You all invested your money willingly! If you got scammed, you have only yourselves to blame!”

SLAP!

Su Hua’s face twisted in rage. Without another word, he slapped her again, hard. “If you spout any more of that nonsense, I swear I’ll beat the shit out of you today!”

“Go on, hit me! Hit me! If you’ve got the guts, then beat the three of us to death!” Zhang Meili’s fat face twitched grotesquely as she jutted out her neck, ready to throw a tantrum.

SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!

Unfortunately for her, the people around were no saints. Now that they knew they had lost everything, they were in no mood for reason. The crowd swarmed her, punching and kicking her face. In moments, she was a bloody, disheveled mess, screaming pitifully.

“AH! Stop hitting me, please stop! I was wrong, I was wrong, isn’t that enough? Boo hoo… Boo hoo…” Zhang Meili lay on the ground, her clothes covered in shoe prints. She finally broke, no longer daring to be defiant, and began wailing and begging for mercy.

“Why are you hitting my mom? If you’re going to hit someone, you should be hitting Lin Fan!” Su Gang shouted, trembling. He didn’t dare try to stop the mob, so he could only redirect their anger, shifting the blame to Lin Fan, who had been watching coldly from the side.

“Yes! It’s all his fault! Everything is Lin Fan’s fault!” Su Mengqing, who had been slumped on the ground, suddenly realized. She slowly pushed herself up and stared at Lin Fan, her eyes burning with venomous hatred. “Lin Fan! You must have been working with my dad! You did this deliberately to scam our money and watch the Su family be destroyed!”

Her words made Su Hua and the others pause. Then, all their furious gazes turned toward Lin Fan.

“Su Hua, if my dad was sleeping on the floor here, it means his relationship with Lin Fan is unusual! He’s definitely an accomplice!” Su Gang yelled, pointing at Lin Fan with reddened eyes. “You scammed a billion! You should use it to compensate everyone, or you won’t be walking out of here alive!”

What? Lin Fan scammed a billion? That goddamned bastard must be filthy rich!

“Lin Fan, you can’t escape responsibility either! Hand over the money now!” Su Hua’s face was ashen as he stormed over and roared at Lin Fan.

“That’s right! How could you have a billion? You must have scammed it! You have to use it to compensate us!”

“He’s just an odd-job worker at a pharmaceutical factory! How else could he get his hands on a billion yuan except by swindling and cheating?”

“Hmph, the Su Mengqing family deserves to die, but you, Lin Fan, are no better!”

In an instant, the crowd moved forward, surrounding Lin Fan as well.

“There’s something seriously wrong with all of you.”

The next moment, Lin Fan, who had been silent for so long, finally spoke. He scanned their furious, twisted faces and found the situation utterly ridiculous.

“Last night in that private room, didn’t I warn you all that investments carry risk? But what did you say? You told me to mind my own business. You acted like I was standing in the way of your fortune. Now you’ve found out you’ve been scammed? That’s what you deserve! If you have a problem, go get your money back from Su Mengqing. What the hell does that have to do with me?”

His forceful words echoed in the alley, and the chaotic noise gradually died down.

Su Hua and the others looked at each other, their faces flushed with shame. It was true. Last night at the Hilton Hotel, Lin Fan had indeed warned them multiple times. But they had been completely blinded by the Su family’s get-rich-quick scheme. They hadn’t paid his warnings any mind at all. Now that Lin Fan brought it up, his words felt like a series of invisible slaps across their faces. It was a stinging, burning pain.

“No, that’s not it! Don’t listen to him!” Seeing the crowd silenced, Su Gang grew desperate and shouted, “If Lin Fan wasn’t in cahoots with my dad, why would he be sleeping in the same room?!”

“He insisted on squeezing in, sleeping on the floor, and he even overpaid his rent. Why would I kick him out?” Lin Fan’s voice was tinged with mockery. A cold smile touched his lips as his gaze swept over them. “You claim I was working with Old Su? Fine. Where’s your proof? Go on, show me some evidence!”

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