After the Fake Heiress Died, She Was Filled with Regret - Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Tang Yin Went Mad and Lunged at Him with a Fist…

The call with Chen Li ended quickly. Tang Yin walked out onto the balcony and was met with Xia Shinan’s concerned gaze. She smiled:

“It’s nothing, just asking if I still have part-time work.”

“Oh… that’s good.” Xia Shinan replied, but still stared at Tang Yin.

“Go wash off your makeup now, you’ll be more comfortable,” Tang Yin pinched her cheek.

“Okay.” Xia Shinan smiled and agreed, then went to the bathroom to remove her makeup.

Tang Yin immediately took this opportunity to contact Qian Yu and Ming Jing.

Soon, Xia Shinan’s phone rang. Tang Yin thoughtfully brought it to her in the bathroom. The two talked on the phone about something. A few minutes later, Xia Shinan came out of the bathroom, stammering.

“What’s wrong?” Tang Yin pretended to be unaware.

“Little Yu Mao called me, asking if she could stay with us for the night because she had a fight with her roommate,” Xia Shinan tugged on her arm, “She said she’s upset and wants to have a good talk with me.”

Tang Yin smiled, “That’s great! How about this, you have a good chat with her tonight, and I’ll go back to the dorm to sleep. It’s the same.”

Xia Shinan was conflicted. She felt bad about ditching Tang Yin for a friend, but it was rare for Qian Yu to call her voluntarily…

“But you…”

“Don’t overcomplicate things. I’m happy for you both to reconcile,” Tang Yin hugged her, “Do you want to go downstairs and buy some snacks? You can eat them together when Qian Yu arrives.”

Xia Shinan: “Little Yu Mao said she’ll bring barbecue. Do you want to eat with us before you go?”

Tang Yin shook her head: “Silly, she’s already mad at me. If I stay to eat barbecue, she’ll just get angrier.” She then went to change clothes, “I’ll go back to school first. I can chat with my roommates about the final exams. You… focus on keeping Qian Yu company.”

“Mhm.” Xia Shinan saw Tang Yin out. Watching the girl’s retreating figure, she suddenly felt reluctant and hugged her tightly: “Tang Yin, I promise you, this is the last time!”

“Okay,” Tang Yin entered the elevator and said to her before the door closed: “See you tomorrow.”

Downstairs, Tang Yin saw Ming Jing waiting for her, with her little beat-up car parked by the roadside.

“What’s going on? You sounded very urgent on the phone.”

“Let’s talk on the way.” Tang Yin got into the car with Ming Jing and told her the content of the phone call.

“So, your friend is being threatened and needs you to go there?” Ming Jing frowned.

Tang Yin nodded: “Mhm… It’s probably Lin Yu.”

“Lin Yu?!” Ming Jing slammed on the brakes. “No. Tang Yin, this is clearly a trap waiting for you. Are you… dumbfounded from being in love?”

Tang Yin closed her eyes, annoyance in her brows, “He’s holding Chen Li. Chen Li helped me before, and I don’t want anything to happen to her because of me.”

“So what?” Ming Jing was completely baffled, “You’re going to sacrifice yourself to save someone else? Are you… that kind?”

“So when we get there, you wait for me nearby,” Tang Yin said, “If I’m not out in twenty minutes, call the police.”

Ming Jing slammed the brakes again, “What? You’re not letting me come with you?!”

Tang Yin clicked her tongue, “Drive properly! You being outside to support me is the best option.” She looked at the car window, her reflection showing a tightly knit brow and a look of worry.

Yes, she wasn’t completely confident either. She felt a sliver of anxiety.

After a moment of thought, she added: “How about this, if I’m not out in ten minutes, call the police.”

Ming Jing scoffed, “So you are afraid! I’ll ask my friends later if they know the owner of that nightclub. We shouldn’t fight a battle we can’t win, right?”

Tang Yin turned and smiled at her: “Then thank you, Senior.”

“Now you remember to call me Senior…” Ming Jing mumbled, accelerating, “Aren’t you going to tell Junior Xia? Aren’t you afraid she’ll worry? She’ll definitely be angry if she knows you’re secretly meeting Lin Yu.”

“She won’t.” Tang Yin looked at her phone. Xia Shinan had just sent her a message, saying Qian Yu had arrived and asking if she had reached the school yet.

She replied: I’m here, chatting with my roommates now.

“If she’s angry, I’ll just have to coax her well.”

“Tch, mushy,” Ming Jing snorted.

The phone lit up with messages from two people.

Xia Shinan: Okay! Little Yu Mao and I are having a late-night snack!

Qian Yu: You might need this.

She pursed her lips and opened the link Qian Yu had sent.

At the entrance of the Mandu Club, Tang Yin gave another instruction before getting out of the car. As soon as she entered, she was led to a private room. It was noisy outside, and equally lively inside.

Lin Yu sat in the middle, his legs resting on the coffee table in front of him, with a beautiful woman on each side. In the corner was a tearful Chen Li, next to a man whose face was bruised and swollen from a beating.

“Sister Yin!” Chen Li saw her like a savior, “Sister Yin, you’re here!”

Tang Yin saw that Chen Li was fine and breathed a sigh of relief. Then she looked at Lin Yu, “You went to all this trouble just to find me?”

Lin Yu scoffed, sneering, “Tang Yin, the score for stealing my fiancée isn’t going to be settled easily. I’m willing to go to some trouble.”

“Fiancée?” Tang Yin raised an eyebrow, looking at Lin Yu. If she and Xia Shinan hadn’t been switched at birth, she would be Lin Yu’s fiancée today.

If that were the case… she would have beaten Lin Yu to a pulp long ago. Why would she wait until now?

“Fiancée…” She repeated the three words, her eyes full of disdain: “Are you even worthy?”

“The Lin family is a respected name in the capital, but who would have thought you’d be like this in A City? I heard a few projects you invested in this year failed. Your mother is covering for you, but you still have the mind to spend your nights drinking and harassing college students…”

Lin Yu was struck where it hurt. He violently smashed his wine glass on the floor, startling everyone around him.

“What’s wrong? I have money and capital. So what if an investment fails? So what if I spend my nights drinking? I can afford to spend a million yuan here today.”

“You pauper, forget a million, do you even have ten thousand yuan?” He mocked, sneering.

But he didn’t know that Tang Yin had been called a pauper since childhood and had long become indifferent to it.

“Yes, I don’t have money.” She curved her lips into a smile, “But what I do have are some photos that can be sent to the Lin family’s old residence. I advise you to release my friends. If she and I can’t leave here safely, then the Lin family in the capital will receive an email tomorrow containing evidence of your ‘good studies’ abroad these years.”

“I hear Old Master Lin is an old-fashioned man.” Tang Yin smiled: “If he knew his grandson, whom he already doesn’t like, had caused two girls to have abortions and brought shame to the family, I wonder how angry he would be…”

“By the way, I’ll also send it to the media. Everyone can have a good laugh, right?”

Lin Yu was truly shocked. He hadn’t expected Tang Yin to know so much!

As Tang Yin spoke, she felt sorry for the girls Lin Yu had deceived. She was also grateful to Qian Yu for digging up all this information and sending it all over on her phone just now.

“Don’t try to scare me. What evidence do you have?” Lin Yu said nervously.

Tang Yin smiled: “Am I trying to scare you? We’ll see. Either you let my friend and me go now, or we’ll stay here for the night, and you can see if the capital will come looking for you tomorrow.”

“Brother… why are you listening to her nonsense? Get her!” One of Lin Yu’s subordinates said angrily.

“Shut up!” Lin Yu glared at him, then waved his hand, telling the subordinate to let go of Chen Li.

Chen Li was stunned. Tang Yin quickly pulled her and started walking toward the door.

“Sister Yin, my boyfriend…” Chen Li stopped after two steps, crying.

Tang Yin gave her a look, “Love will be the death of you, do you understand! Go!”

Lin Yu looked at Tang Yin and suddenly laughed: “Love kills, but is your affection for Xia Shinan real? I think you hooked up with Xia Shinan for her money, didn’t you?”

He laughed loudly, then said to Chen Li, “Do you know that your classmate, and Xia Shinan from your class, are dating her? Those two are disgusting!”

“How do two women date?” Lin Yu asked his subordinate, laughing, “Tell me, is it like what we see in the videos…”

Tang Yin clenched her fist and rushed over, grabbing Lin Yu’s collar, “Shut up! You can talk about me, but you can’t talk about her! I’m disgusting? Am I as disgusting as you? You know very well what you’ve done!”

Lin Yu’s smile was ugly. He whispered in a very low voice: “Of course I know. But you two should probably thank me, right? That drug I gave you last time, was it exciting or not? Since you two didn’t go to the hospital, you definitely…”

Before he could finish his sentence, Tang Yin punched him hard. He stumbled backward and fell to the floor.

“You…” He started to speak in fury, but Tang Yin went mad and lunged at him, punching him in the face repeatedly.

“I should have killed you last time!”

Tang Yin’s eyes were bloodshot. In Lin Yu’s eyes, she looked like a rabid dog. He was a grown man, and yet… he was being beaten by a woman with no ability to fight back.

Every punch from Tang Yin caused him intense pain.

“Are you all dead… pull her off me!” Lin Yu, beaten badly, stuttered in a desperate plea.

The stunned subordinates finally reacted and collectively pulled Tang Yin away.

“Damn it… dare to hit me.” He covered his mouth and spat out blood, then realized he had spat out a tooth. His right eye was swollen shut from the pain, “If I don’t kill you today, I won’t be a Lin! No one is leaving today!”

Just then, the door suddenly opened. Several police officers in uniform knocked and walked in: “Police! We received a report that you are causing a disturbance and bullying a college student here!”

Lin Yu covered his mouth: “No… she hit me!”

“So, you fought with your roommate over whether pineapple and fengli [a type of pineapple] are the same fruit?” After eating barbecue and watching two episodes of a variety show, Qian Yu finally stammered out the reason for her fight with her roommate.

“Yes! This question is very important! Pineapple is pineapple, and fengli is fengli!” Qian Yu’s eyes darted around. In reality, there was no fight with her roommate. It was an excuse she quickly invented.

Xia Shinan smiled at her: “I support you!”

Qian Yu looked at her friend’s smile, feeling awkward because she had been avoiding her for the past few days. She touched her nose, “Are you happy dating Tang Yin?”

Xia Shinan nodded without hesitation: “Happy! Little Yu Mao, I like Tang Yin. Being with her is the happiest time of my life!”

“Oh.” Qian Yu felt a little uncomfortable, “Were you not happy hanging out with me before?”

“It’s different…” Xia Shinan blinked, “You’re my best friend, and she’s my… favorite person. I’m happiest when both of you are by my side.”

“You’re good with words,” Qian Yu snorted, “Fine, then I’ll reluctantly accept it.”

Xia Shinan’s eyes curved with a smile, “Then I’ll assume you’re not mad at me anymore?”

Qian Yu put her hands on her hips: “I was angry while you were happily dating. That’s not fair! I need to be happy too.”

“That’s not true. I’ve been worried about you all along.” Xia Shinan smiled and went to the fridge to get yogurt, “Do you want strawberry or grape?”

“Grape…” Qian Yu answered, but she was somewhat worried about Tang Yin’s situation. Tang Yin wasn’t replying to messages now, and neither was Ming Jing.

She was anxious but didn’t dare to show it, afraid Xia Shinan would worry if she knew.

But coincidentally, just as Xia Shinan brought the yogurt over, Ming Jing called. Xia Shinan saw the caller ID.

“Why is Senior Ming calling you?” Xia Shinan asked curiously.

“Ah… she probably needs to talk to me about something. I’ll go to the balcony to take it!” Qian Yu grabbed the phone and rushed to the balcony. Xia Shinan, however, still felt strange.

Tang Yin also went to the balcony to answer a classmate’s call today. Was there something that couldn’t be said in front of her?

Coincidentally, after the call, Qian Yu came to find her, and Tang Yin left without a word, as if… it had been planned all along.

A sudden sense of unease filled her. She found her phone on the sofa and called Tang Yin.

After several rings, a mechanical woman’s voice answered: “Sorry, the number you dialed is not being answered…”

Xia Shinan pursed her lips and dialed again. Still unanswered.

Her hand dropped limply. Her heart pounded, and she had a bad feeling.

“Slam!”

The balcony glass door was violently pulled open. Qian Yu rushed in, looking panicked.

Xia Shinan looked at her expression and whispered: “What’s wrong? Did something happen to Tang Yin?”

Qian Yu froze, her eyes filled with panic. She thought about it and realized Xia Shinan would find out sooner or later.

“Lin Yu caused trouble for Tang Yin, and they got into a fight. Tang Yin hit Lin Yu pretty badly, knocking out two of his teeth, and the Lin family won’t release her.”

“Tang Yin is being held by the police right now.”

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