Chapter 54: You Say I Seduced Him? Fine, Let’s Just Say I Did!
‘I am the final answer to the question.’
Lin Yibai just wanted to say, she had already won.
What did they want to do now? Argue? Fight? Pull hair?
If she lost, she might as well take their last name!
Because of Yang Yueping’s shouting, more and more people passing by the Seaside Hotel stopped to watch the scene. A crowd quickly formed.
As everyone knows—
The louder you yell, the more “right” you seem.
But Lin Yibai was the calm and smart type. If you want someone to fall, first push them to act crazy.
Yang Yueping, using her usual tricks, tried to ruin Lin Yibai’s image by attacking her morals.
So she set up a trap and threw out a fake accusation.
“I don’t know how someone like you has the nerve to go after someone else’s boyfriend. Don’t you know Xia Changyu already has a girlfriend? Are you after his money or something?”
Lin Yibai replied, “I didn’t seduce him.”
Yang Yueping snapped, “Who would believe that?”
Lin Yibai just shrugged and said, “If you don’t believe me, that’s your problem. And if you all insist I seduced him, fine, I did. So what? What can you do about it?”
“You—You!!” Yang Yueping was furious. This girl was completely shameless!
She snorted coldly and tried another trick.
“So it was for money! Tsk tsk… you have hands and feet, why act so cheap and shameless?”
Lin Yibai only smiled lightly. If this is all they’ve got, then it doesn’t hurt her at all.
As for the onlookers, they didn’t really care what was true. They were just here to watch the drama.
Soon, whispers began spreading through the crowd— Words like “mistress,” “sugar baby.”
People started judging harshly.
“She’s so pretty, why would she choose to be a homewrecker?”
“What, you think ugly girls get that chance?”
“Anyone who ruins a relationship like that deserves what’s coming.”
“Beautiful girls always have evil hearts.”
“Can you believe such a pretty face hides such an ugly soul?”
“She’s just a fake sweet girl, it’s gross.”
…Really? These were the people watching the drama?
They didn’t care about the truth. They just wanted to stand on the moral high ground and attack others.
To say they were just blindly following the crowd, would actually be giving them too much credit.
Why should whatever Yang Yueping says become the truth?
And sure enough, someone in the crowd, just trying to stir things up, shouted, “I think you should apologize! And promise something!”
Lin Yibai asked, “Promise what?”
That person, trying to sound righteous, said, “Promise that you’ll never be a mistress again, and never break up other people’s love or happiness!”
Lin Yibai laughed out loud and answered, “First of all, I’m not going to promise you, or anyone here, anything. Never. So stop dreaming.”
“Wha—!”
The crowd instantly broke into an uproar.
What a horrible girl, right? But the truth was, she didn’t do anything wrong.
So why should Lin Yibai apologize? Why should she promise anything?
What next? Promise you a big fried chicken leg while I’m at it?
Her refusal made the crowd angry, and they started talking even more loudly, wanting to attack her with words.
But, Lin Yibai had no intention of giving them the chance.
She gave a cold snort and spoke clearly. “Hey you… Yang Yueping, right? You said I got close to Xia Changyu just for his money, right?”
Yang Yueping confirmed, “That’s right.”
Lin Yibai asked, “Then, where’s the proof?”
Yang Yueping smiled and said directly, “The proof is all the money Xia Changyu spent on you.”
“Hahaha!” Lin Yibai burst out laughing.
“What are you laughing at?”
“I’m laughing at how stupid that kind of ‘proof’ is!” After a short pause, Lin Yibai looked at the people standing around and added, “And yet so many of you actually believe it?”
Once again, where’s the real proof?
But people like Yang Yueping never care about real evidence.
They say Lin Yibai only liked Xia Changyu for his money, and expect her to just admit it. And yes, in real life, some girls really are unreasonable like that.
They accuse you. They have no proof.
But somehow, you’re the one who has to prove you're innocent.
But unless it’s absolutely necessary, Lin Yibai wasn’t going to play by their rules. She said clearly.
“Even if I say that the person making the accusation should be the one to provide proof, I know you won’t listen. But still, I’ve done nothing wrong, and my heart is clear.”
“Then why don’t you prove it?”
“I can prove it,” Lin Yibai said. “But being forced to prove it is a huge insult to my character. Can you take responsibility for that?”
“You talk too much. If you won’t prove it, then you’re guilty. You’re hiding something.”
“Then how about we stop talking and do something real?”
“Fine. Where’s your proof?”
“Heh.” Lin Yibai gave a small laugh, then pulled out her phone and said,
“I will prove I’m innocent. I’ll even show the police the evidence. And you, since you’re accusing me, do you dare report this to the police with me?”
Yang Yueping: ……
That shut her up instantly. It’s like when you talk trash about someone online and they really report you to the internet police.
And then you start thinking, ‘Hey, can’t you take a joke?’
She didn’t dare report it? Fine, then I, Lin Yibai, will do it!
She made the call and gave them the address. Yang Yueping started to look afraid. She wanted to step back now, to just forget everything and move on.
But too late.
Before the police arrived, Lin Yibai said, “If I really have to prove I’m innocent, then I’ll give my evidence directly to the police. Also, you keep saying I used Xia Changyu’s money, right?”
She continued, “I have hands and feet. I worked a part-time job before the May holidays and used my own money to go on this trip. Why would I need to spend his money?”
“The money you made isn’t clean.”
“I got the job through multiple interviews. I worked as a greeter at the Fucheng Exhibition Center. It’s a legal part-time job backed by the Fucheng city government. If even that money is considered ‘dirty,’ then what kind of money is clean? You want to go argue with the Fucheng government?”
“You, you…”
“You what?” At this moment, the situation had completely changed. Lin Yibai coldly snorted and fought back using their own logic.
“I have a question for you. You came to Binhai for a trip too, right? So tell me, how much money did you spend on this trip?”
Oh, that was a good one! Xia Changyu almost clapped. That question was a total knockout.
You keep saying someone else is spending other people’s money, but what about you?
Did you spend a thousand? A hundred? Or not a single cent?
And on this question, Xia Changyu had the full right to speak, because those girls really didn’t spend a single cent.
Thinking about it now, he deeply regretted everything.
If he had known they were that kind of people, he would’ve rather spent the money on a dog.
At least the dog would bark twice in thanks. But giving money to those girls only brought him pain and trouble.
Yang Yueping: “……”
All of them now had weird, awkward looks on their faces. They couldn’t hide their guilt.
They never expected the boomerang they threw out to come back this fast…
And hit them right in the face.