In that instant, an invisible hand seemed to seize Ma Weiguo's heart, stopping it cold.
In a flash, a figure exploded into his mind.
That aloof, ethereally beautiful woman, whose stubborn pride had stirred an overwhelming urge in him to conquer her.
Song Qiuya!
The woman who had rebuffed him yesterday afternoon and even dared to berate him to his face!
This man was her boyfriend?!
"I... I didn't know... I didn't know she was your girlfriend!"
Ma Weiguo scrambled backward, his bloated face contorted with terror and regret, his voice distorted by excruciating pain and fear.
"A misunderstanding... it was all a misunderstanding! I was only joking with her yesterday..."
"Joking?"
Chen Lin smiled.
The smile never reached his eyes. Instead, it seemed to give even the rooftop's night breeze a bone-scraping chill.
He crouched down and once again pinched Ma Weiguo's broken little finger, which jutted out at an unnatural angle.
"Aah!!"
The slightest touch made Ma Weiguo scream again like a pig being slaughtered.
Chen Lin increased the pressure of his fingertips slightly, as though admiring a fragile work of art.
"You have one more chance to choose your words."
"I'll talk! I'll talk! I'll tell you everything!"
Ma Weiguo broke down completely.
Under absolute terror and unbearable pain, his pitiful scraps of official authority and hope of getting lucky were crushed to dust.
Like a dying dog, he spilled every detail of what had happened yesterday, tears and snot streaming down his face.
"It... it was me. I wanted her..."
"I... I threatened her with the approval process for your 'Body-Sculpting Pill'... I told her that approving a health supplement took one to three months, while approving a drug took at least three years... whether your product counted as a drug or a health supplement was