Chapter 320: Using the Sword of the Past Dynasty to Punish the People of the Present One?
What does it mean to be "red and loyal" from the roots?
Your grandpa did what?
My grandpa supported the Communists… ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;)
There’s no need to say much about Grandpa’s legendary life.
Basically, when he was a teenager, he worked as a village messenger. He was arrested, but just a few days later, the country was liberated. After that, he got a stable job at the supply and marketing cooperative and worked there for the rest of his life.
But in the village, the older folks still liked to bring up the time he was arrested as a topic of gossip. The usual talk was that he was just really lucky or something. Over time, as these stories were passed around, people who didn’t know the truth started believing Grandpa had really been to prison.
Obviously, the person who reported Lin Yibai didn’t have the power to travel through time. Even if they went to the village to investigate, all they’d get was unclear gossip from the locals. So, they thought her grandpa had been to prison.
But no one realized: yes, he had…
But the people who convicted him were actually from the enemy’s spy agency during the old government!
This kind of mistake feels like using the sword of a past dynasty to punish citizens of the current one.
The background check staff kept smiling nervously. Even though they were just doing their job, they knew that if Grandma filed a complaint, they wouldn’t be in a good spot either.
They started to look at Lin Yibai more approvingly. There were things they couldn’t say directly, but they nodded again and again, “Great, great! Your record is really good!”
Lin Yibai was confused, “But didn’t someone report me?”
The staff quickly waved it off, “Just a misunderstanding. We can now say for sure, it was all a misunderstanding.”
Grandma had a fiery temper. She banged her cane on the ground and shouted, “Misunderstanding? You call it a misunderstanding when you try to stop the descendants of revolutionaries from continuing their cause?”
The staff panicked—“Oh no!”
That was a serious accusation. They couldn’t handle that kind of pressure!
How did this old lady know so much?
Well, Grandma might just seem like an ordinary elderly lady in her eighties. But back in the day, she was the head chef at a large state-run cafeteria, cooking for all kinds of officials and leaders.
She might not have run the country, but she’d definitely “smelled the politics” while cooking near it!
So yes, Grandma picked up a thing or two and knew how to talk like an official when she needed to.
The staff quickly tried to calm her down, “Grandma, please don’t get upset.”
But how could she not be upset?
Still… this is a country ruled by law.
Right now, Lin Yibai’s job offer was still in the public announcement stage. That means any citizen had the right to report or raise concerns about the candidates. If someone thinks there’s a problem with a person on the list, they can file a report.
After all, if you’re innocent, you don’t need to fear shadows.
And Lin Yibai had no right to ask the staff to punish the person who reported her. If they did that, who would dare to report real problems in the future?
After calming Grandma down, Lin Yibai worked with the officials to finish a simple statement. And with that, the matter was considered settled…
Just kidding, of course it wasn’t!
Yes, it’s important to be a good citizen. But that doesn’t mean a good citizen should just sit back and be bullied.
Lin Yibai spoke seriously to her grandma and parents. “About me passing the civil service exam, please don’t tell people about it yet. You’ve seen how things are now. Until I officially start the job, nothing is guaranteed.”
Grandma nodded and replied simply, “Got it. People can be dangerous, I’ve seen plenty when I was younger. But thank the ancestors, we finally have someone in our family doing well.”
Although... why did Grandma feel kind of annoyed when she looked at Xia Changyu?
The Lin family finally had someone great after three generations. She hadn’t even graduated from college yet, and someone was already trying to take her away?
What kind of good luck did that guy’s family do in their past life to deserve this?
Her parents also understood how serious the situation was.
Holding a big celebration? No way.
Even among the few close relatives they had, they kept completely quiet.
Now, it was Lin Yibai’s turn to deal with things.
Someone had targeted her. Filed a false report on purpose, just to mess with her.
Honestly, at this point, the best thing she could probably do was to stay quiet and step back a little.
“This really sucks!” Lin Yibai took a deep breath and complained, “I know who reported me with bad intentions, but I can’t do anything about them?”
So bad people can just get away with it? Can they really use the rules however they want to ruin someone else's life?
If that false report had actually worked, Lin Yibai wouldn’t just lose a stable job. She’d be labeled for life as someone with a “criminal family background.” That kind of stain could follow her forever.
Lin Yibai: “I think…”
But just as she opened her mouth, Xia Changyu gently covered it with his hand and smiled calmly.
“I don’t need you to think... I mean, at least let your boyfriend be useful for once, okay?”
Lin Yibai blinked at him. “You?”
Xia Changyu grinned. “What? You think your man is completely useless?”
Lin Yibai shrugged. “So what are you planning to do?”
Xia Changyu said, “First step, of course, is to talk to a lawyer! My family has a legal team. I’m pretty sure my dad will be furious that someone’s trying to mess with his future daughter-in-law, right?”
Lin Yibai scratched her head, “So you want to hire a lawyer to sue the person who reported me?”
Xia Changyu gently patted her head and said softly, “What are you thinking? Even if we win, the best outcome is an apology, and that might hurt your future chances even more. I’m going to ask our lawyers how we can make that person go to jail.”
Xia Changyu wasn’t gentle at all. Or maybe, he was only gentle to Lin Yibai.
This matter wasn’t super complicated, but it wasn’t simple either.
The tricky part was that the report was anonymous.
That meant you couldn’t just punish someone based on the “anonymous report” rule, or else it would seem like you’re challenging the whole government system.
Xia’s father was very angry.
His daughter-in-law hadn’t even officially joined the family yet and already someone was trying to bring her down?
Where’s his dignity supposed to go?
That very day, he sent one of the top lawyers from their legal team.
The moment the lawyer arrived, he told Xia Changyu. “You are not allowed to tell her anything about this. Let her eat, drink, and rest as usual. Understand?”
Xia Changyu didn’t get it. “I can’t even update her on the progress?”
The lawyer smiled and said, “This matter, heaven can know, earth can know, you and I can know, even the whole world can know… But your girlfriend cannot know. Got it?”
Xia Changyu didn’t pretend to understand. He said, “Please explain more clearly.”
The lawyer replied, “Miss Lin is technically part of this case. And since she’s still in the public announcement phase for the civil service job, we need to avoid anything that looks suspicious. If she gets involved in any kind of revenge against the person who reported her, it could affect her record, and that’s not good.”
Xia Changyu was starting to understand. “So you mean…?”
The lawyer lowered his voice and said, “This must be done under your personal name. You’re her boyfriend, upset that someone is going after your girlfriend. Out of love and anger, you contacted the other party. And during that process, he's definitely under a lot of pressure, so he'll have no choice but to deal with you. Once he does, you've already won…”
“...He'll surely expose himself, and you can use that as criminal evidence. If you're lucky, he might even try to extort you, and then you can have him jailed even longer for extortion, and your girlfriend will remain entirely uninvolved. Now you get it, right?”
Holy crap. He got it now.
No wonder this guy’s a top lawyer.
Xia Changyu understood completely.