Chapter 61

Jin Yunho didn't know that so many things would happen afterward.

After he pulled Lin Yuner out of the room, he happened to see Shen Donghai lurking at the door.

"What are you doing?" Jin Yunho frowned and asked.

"Oh, you scared me! I wasn't doing anything, just listening to what was happening inside. If you were fighting with someone, I could rush in to help you."

Shen Donghai quickly stood up straight. Just now, he had been covering his butt and pressing his ear against the door, which was not a graceful posture. He didn't want to lose face in front of the girls.

"Rush in to help? By the time you react, it would be over. ... Let's go, it's settled."

Saying this, Jin Yunho wrinkled his nose and quickly pulled Lin Yuner away from the place.

Ah, Shen Donghai's old habit was acting up again—there was a strong smell of flatulence around.

Does helping in a fight also get him excited?

Jin Yunho was speechless.

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After the three of them returned to the car with their own thoughts, Shen Donghai drove in silence.

Jin Yunho sat in the passenger seat, smoking his first cigarette since he was injured.

Although he had safely brought Lin Yuner out, he had to consider the follow-up. Since he had gotten involved, he had to see it through to the end; quitting halfway was not his style.

At the beginning, he didn't have a perfect plan; time and conditions didn't allow for much consideration. He had only planned to bring Lin Yuner out and deal with the aftermath later.

If necessary, he would take the hit alone. Given his status as a prosecutor, the other party wouldn't go too far.

However, when scaring Jin Zhixuan, Jin Yunho changed his mind.

Although Jin Zhixuan appeared arrogant on the surface, he was a complete coward at heart. A few harsh words made Jin Zhixuan reveal his connections.

Jin Yunho understood such spoiled brats well. The more aggressive they acted and the more they threatened, the weaker and more insecure they were inside.

There were no bodyguards in the room, but he must have had something to rely on, something that made him feel secure.

As it turned out, Jin Yunho's guess was correct. Jin Zhixuan had indeed hidden illegal weapons in the room, giving Jin Yunho a good excuse.

Now, Jin Yunho had evidence of Jin Zhixuan's private possession of military-controlled knives. As long as Jin Zhixuan wasn't crazy, he wouldn't make this public.

On the contrary, Jin Zhixuan would take the initiative to resolve the matter, let Lin Yuner off, and in exchange, get back the evidence Jin Yunho held.

Jin Yunho didn't catch Jin Zhixuan on the spot to make this exchange.

Therefore, Lin Yuner should be out of this mess and be safe.

As for Jin Zhixuan's hatred and possible personal revenge afterward, Jin Yunho smiled faintly.

Jin Zhixuan's affair with a minor celebrity couldn't be made public; he wouldn't dare to speak openly about it and could only use his connections to seek revenge privately. This would reduce the pressure significantly.

As a prosecutor, he would encounter all kinds of powerful people in the future and inevitably offend some of them.

If he couldn't handle a small fry like Jin Zhixuan now and was afraid of a second-rate family's offspring, he wouldn't be able to face more powerful people in the future, nor would he have the courage and confidence to continue in the prosecution system.

Jin Zhixuan, I hope you know when to stop, or else...

After sorting out his thoughts, Jin Yunho turned to Lin Yuner, who was silent in the back seat, and comforted her: "Don't worry, this matter is over. Jin Zhixuan won't bother you again in the future."

Lin Yuner turned her head to look out the window, nodded slightly, but didn't speak, nor did she thank Jin Yunho.

The atmosphere became somewhat awkward.

Shen Donghai noticed and, after passing a supermarket, parked the car by the roadside, making an excuse to buy water and leaving space for Jin Yunho and Lin Yuner.

After a long silence, Lin Yuner finally spoke to Jin Yunho: "Do you think... I'm embarrassing, that I'm a woman who doesn't respect herself?"

Faced with Lin Yuner's question, Jin Yunho didn't want to answer and didn't know how to answer.

What could he say? Tell the truth and say, "It's the path you chose"? Hurt Lin Yuner again?

Or pretend to be a good person and say a bunch of meaningless comforting words?

Jin Yunho didn't want to choose either.

Therefore, he remained silent.

But Jin Yunho's silence hurt Lin Yuner even more. She thought Jin Yunho looked down on her, and his silence was a sign of that.

Lin Yuner tilted her head slightly and laughed bitterly: "Indeed, in the eyes of people like you with power and influence, we celebrities are just clowns, meant to be companions."

As she spoke, she couldn't hold back the bitterness in her heart, and a few tears slid down her upturned face.

She said with a choked voice: "I know, I know, this is our identity, this is the path we should take."

"But I am not willing, I am not willing to be someone's plaything, to be used and discarded. I want to have my own choices."

"Every day, every day, I live in fear. I'm afraid of receiving calls from my agent, more afraid of being taken to a corner and told to attend another banquet, to accompany another powerful person."

"After the first time I accompanied someone, I started to train my alcohol tolerance frantically, finding every excuse to drink. I didn't want to be suddenly drunk one day, taken to a strange room, and lying in a stranger's arms."

"Ha ha, my sisters call me a little drunkard, but they don't know my reasons."

After listening to Lin Yuner's emotional outburst, Jin Yunho had to say a few words of comfort: "You should communicate more with your sisters. The pressure isn't as great as you think."

"Is it not? Ha ha! You don't understand. You are a prosecutor, high and mighty. You don't understand the plight of idols, nor the pressure we bear. Besides, who among us in the same situation can help me?"

Lin Yuner began to vent her inner pain, not realizing that the person in front of her had only met her a few times. Perhaps it was Jin Yunho's easygoing nature and what he did for her today that made her drop her guard and vent her feelings.

However, Lin Yuner's words left Jin Yunho speechless.

Especially when Lin Yuner categorized him as one of the "powerful and influential" and expressed her disgust with such people, Jin Yunho frowned.

He helped Lin Yuner because he owed her a favor, but that didn't mean he was a do-gooder who would meddle in everything. After helping someone, if they didn't appreciate it, he wouldn't force a smile and pretend to be happy.

He wasn't that low.

Jin Yunho didn't speak again, and Lin Yuner in the back seat gradually stopped sobbing.

The two of them tilted their heads and looked out the window.

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First update delivered. Second update in the afternoon, third update in the evening. Please give a recommendation.

Thank you to the book friends "Shazhuo," "Chunfeng Ji," "MrSariel," and "Yongyuan de Cai Bu Dao" for their support.

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