Chapter 25: Seeking Outside Help
Lin Wan sprinted out onto the street. Once she reached a crowded area, she strode off rapidly in the direction of the police station.
This time, she was going to report a crime!
She would charge Guo Xuyang with committing hooliganism!
She would charge Jin Cuicui with attempted drug-facilitated sexual assault of a male comrade!
Let the public security comrades restore her innocence!
That dead, ungrateful wolf!
Go to hell!
“System, immediately, right now, I want all the information on Guo Xuyang!”
“And his family’s social connections!”
Furious as she was, Lin Wan hadn’t lost her mind. She called out to the system for help.
The poker-faced little system figure bounced out, and a prompt screen appeared: [Do you agree to deduct 100 points to view all of Guo Xuyang’s social connections?]
Lin Wan subconsciously clicked agree.
It was only after the points were deducted that she realized the dog system had overcharged her by fifty points. When she queried Liang Qianjin, it had only cost 50 points.
Now, the points she had painstakingly accumulated hit rock bottom!
The system certainly knew how to add fuel to the fire!
Lin Wan was so angry that her voice practically cracked in her head when she questioned the system: “Are you engaging in highway robbery?!”
The expressionless system figure was cold and ruthless: [Guo Xuyang is the male lead, so the query points are doubled!]
Lin Wan: “…”
Fine! She accepted it.
She immediately flipped through the data provided by the system in her mind, looking for the section regarding Huacheng.
One look made her want to flip the table.
The bastard’s maternal aunt’s husband was the director of the Revolutionary Committee.
His paternal aunt’s husband was the captain of the Criminal Investigation Bureau.
Furthermore, he had a paternal older cousin and a maternal older cousin who were both in the Security Bureau…
A basin of freezing water splashed over her head.
It jolted Lin Wan completely sober in an instant!
If this pack of people abandoned all code of honor and favored Guo Xuyang, and if she went to report the crime only for the other party to turn around and bite her back with false accusations, she would be completely done for.
A full package of public criticism rallies and being sent down to the countryside!!
Lin Wan made a sharp turn right at the entrance of the police station and took a public bus to the Civil Affairs Bureau.
She was going to seek outside help!
Guo Xuyang, who had been tailing her, had initially watched her charge straight to the entrance of the police station. His heart had leaped into his throat, and he was just preparing to step forward to stop her when she suddenly didn’t go inside!
Heh~
This wicked woman was indeed putting on a theatrical display!
She had a guilty conscience and didn’t dare report the crime at all!
He shouldn’t have believed a single word that spilled from this woman’s mouth!
With a grim face, Guo Xuyang turned around and strode away, no longer trailing Lin Wan. His precious time shouldn’t be wasted on this woman! He needed to take Zhang Qin to the military base immediately. Once they left Huacheng, Lin Wan wouldn’t be able to stir up trouble even if she wanted to!
Squeezed onto the public bus, Lin Wan felt a ball of fury suffocating her chest.
She couldn’t swallow this anger at all!
Enduring it for a moment causes mammary hyperplasia; taking a step back results in ovarian cysts!
At the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau.
Huo Xiao lifted his hand to check his watch for the third time. Lin Wan was thirty minutes late.
He frequently looked toward the public bus stop. Bus after bus pulled over, but Lin Wan’s figure was nowhere to be seen among the crowds stepping off.
Could she have backed out?
Huo Xiao raised a hand to rub the space between his brows. He should have gone to fetch Lin Wan himself.
“I’m sorry!”
“I came late, I didn’t mean to…”
The moment Huo Xiao spotted Lin Wan, his cold eyes narrowed sharply. “What happened to your face?”
His gaze landed on the slight abrasions on Lin Wan’s face, turning instantly piercing.
“I’m fine!”
“I just accidentally tripped on the way here!”
Lin Wan’s eyes darted around evasively as she waved her hands in a panic, deliberately exposing a ring of dark purple bruising on her snow-white wrist. If she didn’t employ the white-lotus tactic now, when would she ever use it???
When you get bullied and can’t fight back on your own, you have to call for reinforcements!
However, she had to get the marriage certificate into her hands first! With the marriage certificate, she would be a military dependent! Whoever dared to bully her would be bullying a military dependent! Undermining military-civilian unity! Those were two massive labels that ordinary people couldn’t afford to bear!
Crucially, Huo Xiao’s military rank firmly pressed Guo Xuyang down by a head.
“Let’s register the certificate first, so I don’t waste your time!”
Huo Xiao’s dark, phoenix-like eyes concealed his emotions, and he turned around to stride rapidly into the Civil Affairs Bureau.
Once the suffocating gaze pressing down on her vanished, Lin Wan let out a sigh of relief and hurriedly jogged to catch up with him.
Because military personnel received priority, they didn’t need to line up. With all the paperwork in order, the marriage certificate was processed very quickly.
When the clerk energetically stamped the official seals with loud thuds, Lin Wan’s heart gave two violent thumps along with it.
From this moment on, she was a married woman! It felt incredibly magical!
Two certificate sheets resembling award certificates were produced. Before Lin Wan could even get a clear look, they were gathered up by Huo Xiao.
“The marriage certificates will stay with me.”
Lin Wan understood. This guy was afraid that when the three-year term arrived, she would hide the certificates to delay the divorce. Since he was originally forced into marrying her, Lin Wan wouldn’t bicker with him over such trivial details.
“Um… if you have business to take care of, go ahead and get busy. I won’t hold you back!” Stepping out of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Lin Wan said to Huo Xiao with a bit of awkwardness.
She intentionally tilted the side of her face with the abrasions toward Huo Xiao, raising a hand to smooth the hair by her ear.
Huo Xiao opened the passenger door. “Get in the car!”
Lin Wan immediately waved her hands. “No need, no need, I won’t hold you back. I can just go catch the bus!”
The stark purple bruising cutting across her pristine white wrist looked exceptionally piercing to the eye.
“Comrade Lin Wan, get in the car!”
Huo Xiao spoke once more. Pinned down by his dark, bottomless cold eyes, Lin Wan subconsciously shut her mouth and behaved herself.
Huo Xiao drove in absolute silence for quite a while before opening his mouth: “Comrade Lin Wan, we are already husband and wife. You must tell me the truth.”
“I hope you can understand what it means for a husband and wife to be one entity!”
“Lin Wan, I am your legal husband.”
“If anyone bullies you, you must tell me!”
“Unless you look down on me and think I’m not a man, unable to protect even my own wife!”
Lin Wan thought to herself that though this man looked freezing cold, his sense of responsibility was remarkably strong. She just wondered if her legal husband would let her sleep with him!
Stop right there! Don’t ruin the mood! It will affect her tragic performance!
She forced out a strained smile. “It really was just me accidentally tripping.”
With that, she began to conjure up sad thoughts to build up tears. Once the tears were ready, she lifted her gaze to lock eyes with him. Her reddened eyes pooled with water, and tears began falling with heavy drops.
The sight made Huo Xiao’s heart tighten.
“But we aren’t a real couple.”
“I’m afraid of causing trouble for you.”
“I’m also afraid you won’t care about me!”
“I… I have a negative score in your book, and I’m afraid you won’t believe me!”
With that, she let out a low sob.
As she wept, the genuine emotions deep within her heart were pulled to the surface, and the soft whimpering escalated into a full, loud bawl.
Sob, sob…
She had originally intended to cry elegantly like the female lead in an angsty romance drama. The kind that looked like pear blossoms bathed in rain was the easiest to evoke pity.
But… she couldn’t control herself right now!
Just transmigrating to the 1960s was enough to leave her terrified and anxious every single day, yet she still had to run into people who were completely unhinged. Heaven knows how terrified she had been when Guo Xuyang violently dragged her into that alley!
She hadn’t even dared to use the electric baton because Guo Xuyang was a military officer—he wasn’t as easy to fool as those thugs, and she wouldn’t be able to explain the source of the baton at all. She wanted to resist and give Guo Xuyang a heavy beating, but in the end, she was the only one who got hurt.
Lin Wan cried until she started hiccuping.
A clean, white handkerchief appeared before her eyes, and a faint, subtle sigh echoed beside her ear.
A touch of helplessness lingered within his crisp, cold voice: “Comrade Lin Wan, our marriage certificate is real!”
“It is protected by the law!”
“Stop crying.”
“Tell me, who bullied you?”
He had witnessed Lin Wan’s aggressive, uncompromising side before. This girl was a fiercely defensive person. If she hadn’t been bullied severely, she wouldn’t be weeping like this.
The background of the person who bullied her was likely far from ordinary; otherwise, she wouldn’t be hiding it. Considering the current political climate, could it be…
Huo Xiao’s heart sank heavily.
