“Damn, who the hell do you think you are?”
“Fuck, are you insane? Spouting crap like that!”
“You little punk, just for saying that, you can count on spending a few years in jail!”
As soon as Lin Hai finished speaking, the people in the room erupted in curses.
But Liu Liang’s eyes were shining with excitement, a surge of hot blood rushing through his chest.
“Hai’s words… that was seriously badass!”
Lin Hai ignored the lot of them. He lunged forward in a flash, grabbed the collar of a middle-aged man, and yanked him up.
“You little bastard! Let go of me! Do you know who I am?” The man was terrified.
“I don’t give a damn who you are!” Lin Hai raised his foot and, with a sharp bang, kicked the man in the knee.
The man let out a howl of agony and collapsed to his knees.
“Weren’t you all so fond of making other people kneel? Well, today, every last one of you sons of bitches is going to kneel for me!”
After saying that, Lin Hai lunged at a younger man.
“You… what are you doing? I’m warning you, I’m with the Public Order Squad…”
Bang! Before he could finish, Lin Hai delivered an identical kick to his knee, and the young man was down on his knees too.
“Fuck it, get him all at once!” Seeing how ferocious Lin Hai was, someone shouted, and the remaining men rushed at him together.
These people were good at bullying others with their official power, but when it came to an actual fight, they couldn’t even match an average street punk. They were no match for Lin Hai.
After a series of wails and howls, they were all kneeling on the floor, clutching their knees and unable to get up.
“Huh?” Having dealt with the others, Lin Hai suddenly realized Gong Zhen was missing.
“What the hell?” Lin Hai looked down and noticed the dining table in front of him was shaking.
“Hai, that old bastard crawled under the table!” Liu Liang shouted.
Pfft. Lin Hai couldn’t help but laugh.
For crying out loud, this guy was a vice president of the court! And he actually crawled under the table? How pathetically embarrassing.
Lin Hai’s eyes narrowed. He reached out toward the table, his hand seeming to lift it from the air.
“Star-Plucking Hand!”
Whoosh! The table was flipped over, leftover food and soup flying everywhere.
“Ahh!” The women who had been drinking with them screamed in fright.
“Ahh! Don’t hit me, don’t hit me!”
With the table gone, Gong Zhen was revealed, huddled on the floor, his ass sticking high up in the air, not even daring to lift his head, trembling uncontrollably.
Lin Hai walked over, gave his rear end a kick, then grabbed him by the collar and hoisted him up.
“You… what are you going to do?” Gong Zhen had never faced anything like this. He was scared out of his wits.
Slap! Lin Hai backhanded him across the face.
“Weren’t you feeling all high and mighty?”
“I…”
Slap! Another slap from Lin Hai.
“I what? Where’s all that swagger you had a minute ago?”
“You…”
Slap! Another slap smashed into his face.
“You what? You got a problem with me smacking you around?”
Gong Zhen was on the verge of tears from the slapping. Damn it, was every single word he said going to get him hit?
“Xiao Lin, stop, stop hitting him! This is President Gong of the court!” At that moment, Liu Hongju rushed over and quickly stopped Lin Hai, fear evident in his eyes.
Liu Hongju had been navigating the business world for half his life and had dealt with plenty of these officials. He knew exactly how vicious they could be when it came to settling scores later.
He never expected that in one moment of not holding them back, things would escalate to this point. He sighed inwardly—Lin Hai was just too young and impulsive.
Sure, it felt satisfying now, letting off steam, but they had to think about the consequences. Who were these people? Any single one of them could make his life a living hell.
So when he saw Lin Hai grab Gong Zhen and start slapping him around again, he hurried over to intervene.
One look at Liu Hongju’s expression and Lin Hai understood.
He himself might not be afraid, but for an ordinary businessman like Liu Hongju, these were people he absolutely couldn’t afford to offend.
Still, Lin Hai had no intention of letting Gong Zhen off.
“Uncle Liu, I get what you’re thinking. But the grudge is already there. Do you think if I let this dumbass go now, he’s just going to let you off?”
“That’s…” Liu Hongju was a smart man. Once Lin Hai pointed it out, he understood completely.
“Ahh!” Liu Hongju couldn’t help but sigh, thinking to himself that the Liu family’s business empire of over twenty years was finished. Once he got home today, he’d have to quickly sell off the assets and move to another city to start over.
Liu Hongju’s plea for mercy immediately gave Gong Zhen an idea.
Damn it, I’m the vice president of the court! I’m a somebody in the whole city of Jiangnan! Who would dare hit me?
“Kid, I’m the vice president of the court! If you don’t want to spend the rest of your life in prison, let go of me right now!” Gong Zhen perked up, threatening Lin Hai.
“Let go, my ass!” Lin Hai raised his hand and slapped him again.
“Oww! I told you, I’m the vice presi…”
Slap!
“So being the vice president of the court makes you hot shit?” Lin Hai slapped him again.
“You little bastard! Let President Gong go right now, or after we get out of here, I swear I’ll have someone kill you!”
On the floor, the young man who had earlier boasted about being with the Public Order Squad suddenly shouted.
“Wow, quite the professional integrity there, buddy. Even now, you don’t forget to kiss ass.” Lin Hai gave him a thumbs-up.
And then, he actually did let go of Gong Zhen.
Gong Zhen was overjoyed and cast an appreciative glance at the young man, who immediately fought through his pain to put on a fawning smile.
“Kid, you’ve come to your senses,” Gong Zhen said, thinking Lin Hai was scared. He straightened his clothes and put on a smug expression again.
Slap! Lin Hai hit him so hard he nearly knocked him to the floor.
“Come to my senses, my ass.” Lin Hai raised his foot and—bang!—gave Gong Zhen’s knee a kick.
“Oww! My leg’s broken!” Gong Zhen collapsed to his knees with a thud, clutching his leg and howling in pain.
“Huh? Just a moment ago, you were all insisting my Uncle Liu kneel and apologize to you. Now look at you—each one of you kneeling on your own. You really are a bunch of cheap bastards.” Lin Hai looked down at the kneeling men, disdain flashing in his eyes.
“You little punk, just you wait! This grudge is settled today!” The young man from before spoke up viciously again.
Lin Hai stepped forward and planted his foot right on the young man’s face.
“You just have to show off, don’t you? Weren’t you going to have someone kill me? Fine!” Lin Hai nodded.
“Go on. Call whoever you want. Call every single person you can. Don’t say I didn’t give you a chance.” Lin Hai pointed coldly at the door.
“Fine, you said it!” A vicious look on his face, the young man tried to stand up.
But no sooner had he gotten up than—thud!—he collapsed back to his knees.
“Ahh!” The young man howled in pain again. Damn it, Lin Hai had kicked his knee so hard he couldn’t stand at all.
Left with no choice, the young man pulled out his phone.
“Hello, Director Wang? Get your people to Yue Long Hotel right away. We’ve got a violent thug assaulting people here.”
After hanging up, the young man gave Lin Hai a vicious grin.
“Director Wang from the police station will be here any minute. Just you wait!”
Lin Hai simply pulled up a chair and sat down right in front of the group.
“Sure, I’ll be waiting. Oh, and by the way, anyone else you want to call? Go ahead and call them all. Save us the trouble later.”
“Xiao Lin, we need to leave, now!” Seeing that the man had called the police, and directly phoned a station director at that, Liu Hongju panicked.
If the police cornered them in this room, none of them would get away. And once they got to the station, they’d be completely in these people’s hands—they’d be tortured to death.
Just thinking about it, Liu Hongju felt his legs go weak.
“Uncle Liu, don’t just stand there. You and Liang grab a chair and sit down. Let me tell you, when you beat a dog, you’ve got to beat it until it shits itself. Don’t be fooled by these guys in their fancy suits. If you don’t put the fear of god into them all at once, they’ll be like rabid dogs afterward. They’ll bite you when you least expect it and drive you crazy. Am I right, you mad dogs?”
The men on the floor glared at Lin Hai with rage, but none dared to speak. They were all praying the police would hurry up and come deal with this insufferable brat.
Bang! Suddenly, the door to the private room was kicked wide open.
“Police! Nobody move!”
