Newbie Scenario: Class Reunion (14

There were no bars in front of Professor Lu's door. The moment he saw Zhen Liu, he happily invited him inside. The Black Room even transformed into a sunken reception room.

It was so fast and so attentive, like an eager puppy.

After sitting down, Zhen Liu took the initiative to explain why he had come. "Why are you targeting Lawyer Jin so much?"

Zhen Liu had previously come up with several theories for the answer to that question. For example, perhaps Professor Lu and Jin Zhuang had some private grudge they did not know about, or perhaps Professor Lu and Lawyer Jin had some unknown history from their student days.

Yet Zhen Liu had never expected Professor Lu's answer to be a third possibility.

"You pay too much attention to Lawyer Jin."

Professor Lu definitely had no grudge against Jin Zhuang before entering, and Professor Lu's character had no connection with Lawyer Jin's character during their student days. He targeted Lawyer Jin partly because Lawyer Jin was very hostile toward him, and partly because Zhen Liu paid too much attention to Lawyer Jin. Since their relationship had already reached this point, he might as well take the opportunity to have a little "snack."

Zhen Liu: "???" Were you always this immersed when roleplaying? You even got jealous?

Professor Lu proved through his actions that he did more than just get jealous. "Of course. If you don't like me being this way, I can stop."

Zhen Liu: "..."

Professor Lu leaned forward slightly. His classically beautiful face, like something out of an oil painting, was utterly seductive. He lowered his voice, and it brushed across Zhen Liu's heart like a feather. "As long as it's what you want, I can make it happen for you."

A lovestruck fool was steadily rising.

But Zhen Liu was like a romance-signal jammer. Completely unmoved, he even tried to persuade Professor Lu instead. "There's no need to go that far. I only came to ask whether you could avoid calling an Early Referendum."

"Of course. If you don't want it, I'll vote against it." Professor Lu agreed without the slightest hesitation.

Zhen Liu had prepared a whole pile of arguments, intending to lay out the facts and reason things through. But now they were all useless. He could only sit there in a daze, pausing before he said, "Oh. That's good, then. In that case, I..."

Before Zhen Liu could stand and say goodbye, Professor Lu continued giving things away for free. "Is that all you need me to do?"

"Uh..." Zhen Liu racked his brains and could only come up with one answer. "Play the game properly?"

Professor Lu looked a little aggrieved. "I've always been very invested."

Zhen Liu: "..." That much was obvious. You were very invested in wanting to date, but this really wasn't a dating game!

An ill-timed thought appeared in Zhen Liu's mind again. If someone wrote a webnovel based on Professor Lu's character, its title would probably be Was I Wrong to Expect Romance in a Script Murder Game?

Newbie Scenario: Class Reunion (14

When Zhen Liu came out of Professor Lu's Black Room, he happened to run into Second-generation Zhao in the corridor. He had come to visit someone as well.

Second-generation Zhao greeted him first and bluntly stated that he wanted to talk to Zhen Liu. "I'm going to confirm that Professor Lu will agree to the public vote. Since we ran into each other first, we might as well talk about it together."

At this moment, perhaps because he was too immersed in his role, Second-generation Zhao seemed to have gained much more initiative than before entering the game. His attitude had also become more forceful. Even his somewhat timid appearance had taken on a sharp edge under the force of his presence. Zhen Liu had no issue with whether someone had a strong personality or not. He was simply puzzled by how Second-generation Zhao had changed so much before and after.

Second-generation Zhao asked again, "What do you think about holding an early public vote?"

Zhen Liu dismissed the idea that Second-generation Zhao wanted to replace Jin Zhuang as the team's "leader." No matter how true it might be that when the tiger was absent, the monkey became king, it would not cause such a personality change. He answered Second-generation Zhao aloud, "I don't understand why you're so determined to hold an early public vote. Or rather, why you insist on voting Lawyer Jin to death."

"Because he's the murderer." Second-generation Zhao's tone was firm, as though there were no personal grievances mixed into it at all.

But Zhen Liu knew he was lying.

"Did Basketball Qiao show you the evidence Lawyer Jin hid?" Second-generation Zhao began trying to brainwash Zhen Liu from a moral standpoint. "The social news Lawyer Jin and the victim saw in the living room that night was about Brother Hao's second-in-command getting arrested for drug trafficking."

Lawyer Jin was not merely Brother Hao's legal representative. More accurately, he was the advisory lawyer for Brother Hao's entire criminal organization.

If this were a crime movie, then Lawyer Jin's identity as a mob lawyer would undoubtedly be very cool. He could chat calmly with the police, send his opponents to their doom, and serve as the indispensable right-hand man of the family.

But this was reality. In reality, helping people soar along the edge of the law was not cool at all.

Take that second-in-command who had crossed the line. Lawyer Jin had once handled a traffic case for him. He had been woken in the middle of the night and summoned to the second-in-command's home. Without knowing anything, he had to go negotiate with the police on his behalf.

What Lawyer Jin did not know was that someone had died because of that traffic accident.

By the time Lawyer Jin was stuck knee-deep in the mud, he realized he had boarded a pirate ship. The second-in-command said he had not intentionally run the other person over. The victim had failed to obey traffic rules, suddenly darted out from next door, and crossed the road. The second-in-command had not expected it and could not brake in time, which was what caused the accident.

There was only one surveillance camera on that stretch of road, and the footage from the time of the accident happened to be quite blurry.

After great difficulty, Lawyer Jin used insufficient evidence as grounds and did everything he could to argue the case into a traffic accident. In the end, the second-in-command paid a sum of money, went inside for a short while, and then came back out.

"But look at that news report. He was accidentally caught while using drugs, and that led to the discovery that he was also involved in drug trafficking. In other words, he hadn't been using drugs for just a day or two. He was very likely driving under the influence of drugs that day!" Second-generation Zhao grew more and more agitated as he spoke, waving his hands indignantly. Even his expression twisted slightly. "He drove under the influence of drugs and killed someone, then pinned the blame on the victim!"

And yet Lawyer Jin had powerful connections and found ways to smooth things over with every side. Whether Lawyer Jin had wanted to or not, the outcome was plain for all to see.