"The Ye Family, like you expected, back out of the engagement." The morning of the next day, one of the five people Han Su brought into his family"s protection sought him out to announce this to him.It was a normal school day. As a month had already pa.s.sed since then, Han Su, Ren Lian had already settled their schooling, ident.i.ty papers, and accommodation. All of them were now enrolled in the same high school. The male lead extended help to the others by giving them a place to stay and some livelihood means since none of them wanted to go back to their real families. However, he was not the one who truly smoothed down the ident.i.ty papers of the five people.
When they were already out, they discovered that in all records, none of them appeared to have been enrolled at the disciplinary school. No matter how many years or months they spent inside, no records of it stayed! In papers, at least, they had forms and grades filled in by other proper high schools all over the country. This only meant two things. In the future, n.o.body would be able to connect them to that h.e.l.lish inst.i.tution and brand them as graduates of an internet addiction rehabilitation school.
One could just wonder, how did that happen and who did it?
Han Su now knew. Jing Mo.
The male lead back then was on the second floor of their school"s luxuriously furnished cafeteria. This was where all students with background eat. He looked at his friend, Dong Lan. This person was quite an intelligent and mature tall fellow, albeit lacking in the appearance department.
Ren Lian, who was sitting at the same table as them, commented in a serious tone, "As planned, I went to the party, observed a few government figures who attended, and asked some of the sn.o.bbish young ladies for information. We can discuss later who I suspected since there are quite a few, but I can say with confidence that all of them have the tendency to maltreat people or s.e.xually hara.s.s them, especially the young ones."
"Okay then." Nodding, the male lead replied while slowly sweeping his gaze around the bustling dining hall. "We have to be careful and mindful of naming names at places like this. Let"s do that later once we"re somewhere safe."
While the others nodded in silence, the karate beauty hummed in agreement. After a few seconds, having seemingly remembered something, she gave Dong Lan an inquisitive look then commented, "Hey, Dong Lan. You mentioned the engagement a while ago and that it has been canceled. But isn"t it bound to fail the moment it is announced that esteemed person who escorted her is actually the son of Facebrick"s founder?"
Han Su"s face contorted, but it was not because he was displeased by the dissolution of the engagement. On the contrary, he was glad that he didn"t have to get engaged with somebody he didn"t know.
The reason for his frown was that Jiang Li was mentioned.
He was sure that Jiang Li was Jing Mo. However, despite being like them, escapees and survivors of the h.e.l.lhole, Jing Mo refused to help them in tracing and punis.h.i.+ng the evildoer who had wronged several of their fellow schoolmates. Why?
For numerous times he wracked his brain to think of an answer. He obviously had the power and the means. If he used his connection or ask for a favor from Senator Fang, a person of very high stature in the national government, for sure, the case would be brought to light and the investigation would speed up. That was his privilege as somebody from the top. So why did he decline his invitation for cooperation?
Wearing that same scowl, he chugged down a gla.s.s of water and then irately said to the few people around him. "I have no opinions about that broken engagement since it"s still unofficial and unannounced. I"m more hung up on that guy"s refusal."
A frown appeared on the female lead"s still immature but already beautiful face, " Yeah. It"s unbelievable that he doesn"t want to help."
"Well, if it"s me, I won"t help too. After all, he did everyone a big favor, but got chased away, and in such a dangerous place even." One of the bored-looking boys b.u.t.ted in, chewing on a piece of boiled egg that was still on his right hand. "We should probably hunt down Ye Xin. It"s his fault that we ended up not getting a capable guy to lend us help. Such a shameless guy! But there"s also Jing Mo not telling anything to anybody and ending up misunderstood by everyone. So he"s also one to blame. What is he thinking? That everyone is a genius and will realize he is just acting and there"s a purpose behind his actions when he did all those despicable stuff?"
"No, boy, you should be asking why somebody always has to help when they"re not getting something in return."
Dong Lan shook his head. He was somebody who stayed longer than Ye Xin in that place, most of the time, staying in the black house. Yet even then, now that he was back to civilization he was actually pretty content with his regained freedom and felt like he could not ask for more.
To be honest, sometimes, he wondered why these people, especially Ren Lian and Han Su were so adamant about pursuing the mastermind behind the school. Wasn"t it enough that they took revenge against those who sent them there? These two did not even stay there for a week, what were they fighting so hard for?
One time he asked Han Su about it, and he didn"t get an answer. However, he noted the lost and puzzled expression on the boy"s face which hinted that he too was wondering why. Or was it that he had a reason that couldn"t be disclosed?
A minute after, while the others were in a discussion about Jing Mo, Dong Lan thought while shrugging his shoulders, "Maybe I"m thinking too much for being too bored. I"ll just ride along since I"m getting allowance and place to stay from Han Su."
Their discussion once again went back to convincing that dude whose dad was apparently more powerful than Han Su. And every once in a while, Dong Lan had the urge to roll his eyes and retort, "What makes you all think just because you guys have an unusually strong sense of justice, everyone else will be like you? And he has already helped so many times, covertly at that before. If he doesn"t want to lend a hand this time, it"s his call. It"s not always good to depend on other"s free lunch, okay?"
Unfortunately, he knew he had no right to say this, since Han Su was the leader. Once he also mentioned that there was no free lunch in this world, they might reply back that he was depending on the Hans for food and everything too. So yeah. Better shut up and not invite hate upon himself. Play along and be a hero of justice. Anyways, who asked him to be from a poor broken family who was literally sold to the inst.i.tution in exchange with a few tens of thousands of credits?
"Ah, life is really hard... Why am I stuck with mental people who think of pursuing impossible enemies instead of enjoying a normal life that they regained?" He exclaimed after the weird group came to a decision.
It was concluded that half of them would look into the backgrounds of the people Ren Lian suspected while the other half would find an opportunity to speak with Jing Mo, no, Jiang Li again.
For a moment, Dong Lan felt sad that he had to be with Ren Lian and Han Su. The plan was that they would barge into the Yes in the pretext that Han Su personally wanted to speak with the girl who was supposed to be his fiancee.
What a stupid excuse. Would they really be able to get in once they used that?
Looking at the two who would be at the same team as him, he felt like he would just become the third wheel there.
"Fine. Let"s just sightsee and enjoy the traffic and pollution en route." In ridicule, Dong Lan laughed to himself.Don"t judge my naming sense please, *cries* I can"t possibly use Facebook or Facetime. Don"t want to be sued (no matter how small the odds are). Haha