She forced herself to hold her ground, talking tough even as her legs nearly gave out. "Y-you're talking nonsense!" she screamed. "Mine is genuine! What proof do you have that it's fake?"
Chen Lin sneered and took out his phone.
"Proof? Easy."
He pulled up the familiar number and dialed it in front of everyone.
"Hello, Captain Li? It's Chen Lin. Yes, sorry to bother you with another little matter..."
At the words "Captain Li," the woman's face instantly turned white as a sheet.
"Wait!" she shrieked. "W-what are you trying to do?"
Chen Lin lifted his eyes and gave her an indifferent glance.
"What do you think? Call the police."
"You're using a fake to scam me. That's suspected extortion, and thirty thousand is enough to open a criminal case. Enough to put you behind bars sewing socks for a few years."
"Oh, right." He pointed at the inconspicuous camera in a corner of the courtyard. "There's surveillance here. Everything that just happened was recorded from start to finish. Want to take a gamble and see whether the police invite me in for a chat or slap handcuffs on you?"
The woman's defenses crumbled completely.
The man in the floral shirt beside her, who had remained silent all this time, panicked too. He tugged at her arm and whispered, "Forget it, forget it. Let's go..."
"Go?" Chen Lin smiled, but his smile was chilling. "Weren't you acting pretty tough just now? Why are you suddenly so eager to leave?"
"You insulted my aunt, scared Aunt Zhang into tears, and disrupted business at my restaurant. How are we going to settle that?"
The woman's lips trembled, and she was nearly frantic enough to cry. "I... I..."
"Apologize." Chen Lin's voice wasn't loud, but his command allowed no argument. "Apologize to