Although Yurina's father owed money, those thugs should have known that she was only twelve or thirteen, with no ability to earn money at all. There was no need for them to keep pressuring her. But if they had come after her for her parents' belongings, then everything made sense.
"Your father owed a debt. Where is he now?"
Yurina fell silent for a moment. "Dead. It happened just two days ago."
Lin Qiye turned to look at her.
"He was a wanted criminal. I wasn't surprised that he ended up like this," Yurina said flatly. "From the day he abandoned my mother and me, I stopped thinking of him as my father. He incurred those debts outside. I don't want to repay them for him."
Lin Qiye nodded and said nothing more. After all, it was someone else's family matter, and it was not his place to judge.
"What about Grandma Crane? How is she now?" Yurina suddenly seemed to recall something and asked worriedly.
"She's already gone back. She'll be fine."
"That's good."
Hearing that, Yurina finally let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you..."
"You don't need to thank me. I'm just repaying a favor. Without you, I would probably still be stuck in those reefs," Lin Qiye replied.
After the two of them wandered around outside for a while, Black Pupils emerged from the warehouse with an IOU in his hand.
"That fast?" Lin Qiye asked in surprise.
"It seems you still don't know enough about my professionalism, Dean." Black Pupils smiled. "Besides, that guy was spineless. Before I even got serious, he confessed everything himself."
"How did it go?"
Black Pupils' expression gradually turned grave. "It seems the situation is more complicated than we imagined."
Lin Qiye's brows furrowed slightly.
"This IOU is forged." Black