Seeing Gu Yuan leave after delivering his threats, looking utterly dejected, Lin Xiao learned that Wang Yan had actually launched retaliatory attacks against Gu Yuan's family company. The look she gave Wang Yan was deeply displeased.
"Wang Yan, you've gone too far!"
Her babyish voice carried little force when angry; it sounded more like a joking attempt to act upset.
"I don't want to hear your ignorant condemnation. In fact, I already explained the reasons when I laid out the whole story just now. I'll tell you again, and I hope you understand.
"It wasn't that Gu Yuan kindly chose to spare me—it was that he couldn't do anything to me. It wasn't that Gu Yuan's mother was so refined—it was that she couldn't do anything to me either. Otherwise, when Gu Yuan paid Gu Yong and Xi Cheng to gather a group of idle thugs, including minors, to beat me up, the normal outcome would have been me getting beaten half to death with broken bones, while receiving barely any compensation.
"At that time, Gu Yuan, the culprit, would not only have gotten away with it and continued living comfortably—he might even have come to mock me, making sure I knew he had done it while knowing there was nothing I could do to him. You've known Gu Yuan for years. Could you possibly not know how he bullies people?
"And don't tell me that since I'm fine now, there's no need to retaliate against Gu Yuan. I'm telling you, there is. There absolutely is. I want them to experience what helplessness feels like. I want to see whether, once their wealth shrinks, their social standing drops, and their connections wither away, they can still look down on others from so high above.
"They say that people who can't