Shadow Empire

Chapter 660: There are unruly people [666+13]
In a person's life, there will always be a moment when a dazzling ray of sunlight lights up that part of life, even if it is only for a moment!

Rowling looked directly into Lance's eyes, her eyes were full of tears, so much so that Lance was blurry and unclear in her eyes, "I didn't take it!"

"I never take anything from anyone else!"

She almost cried out, the grievance in her heart was like a bursting flood, and tears as big as beans fell down.

The sensitive and fragile girl was framed, talked about, and threatened by her teacher without knowing the truth. Now she seems to want to cry out all her grievances!

The vice principal also looked unhappy. She sighed and said, "Mr. Lance, although I don't want this to happen, the fact is that we found Miss Rowling's classmate's lost things in her schoolbag."

Lance glanced at her and said, "Call the person who said that her things were lost. I will ask her."

The vice-principal hesitated for a moment, but still did as he was told. The girl's father was a Socialist Party representative and a successful businessman.

The order of these two relationships may be somewhat reversed. If you look at it the other way around, he is first a successful businessman with his own business, so he becomes a representative of the people - representing the workers who work for him.

This kind of person has political influence, financial resources, and can often talk to people in the Socialist Party, although he is not a particularly big figure.

But when separated from other things, he is definitely much more powerful than her as the vice principal.

It's just that... She glanced at Lance and the person standing behind him, and picked up the phone anyway, "Bring the girl who lost the things to my office."

She hung up the phone and remained silent. According to etiquette, she should have brought Lance some coffee and pastries.

But it seems that she doesn't intend to do that. She wants to use this method to express her inner dissatisfaction with Lance!
About seven or eight minutes later, footsteps were heard outside the door. Along with a knock on the door and the vice-principal's "Come in", a teacher and a very pretty blonde girl came in.

She wore a beautiful jeweled butterfly hairpin on her head. It was very pretty and should be very much what girls like. It was also not cheap.

"What's your name?" asked the vice principal. She had never asked the girl's name before, so she just treated it as a very simple matter.

"Ashe, Madam Principal." The little girl glanced at Lance timidly. Even if she was slow-witted, she knew that Rowling's "parents" had come.

She framed Rowling and instinctively felt guilty, but what she showed was timidity and fear.

The teacher behind her put his hand on her shoulder and gave her an encouraging look, "We are all here, no one can hurt you."

Ash nodded, but still didn't dare look at Lance.

In fact, Lance was very handsome, so handsome that it was a bit dazzling. Under normal circumstances, she would definitely stare at him intently, but now, she didn't dare to look at him.

There was something about Lance that frightened her, and now she felt like peeing!

"Ashe, why did you lie?" Lance asked directly.

On the one hand, he believed in Rowling. Rowling's performance just now was indeed the emotional changes of a very aggrieved child. Unless she had acting skills at the level of an actress, she could not fake it.

On the other hand, he had a hunch that this matter was not directed at Rowling.

She is just a sensitive, fragile and somewhat inferior girl. She is not a threat to anyone and cannot hurt anyone.

But now that they treated her like this, there was only one possibility.

The target is Lance.

So he thought that the girl named Ashley was lying.

"I...no, sir." She still kept her head down and didn't dare to look at Lance. She was stubborn and refused to acknowledge Lance's question.

Lance stood some distance away from her, "Come to me."

The teacher behind her took a deep breath and said, "You don't have to do that."

Lance glanced at her, then his eyes fell on Ash, "Have your family or your teachers ever told you not to be a liar?"

"In fact, you have no reason to join such a game, but you joined in. No matter who asked you to do so, you have become a part of the game."

"You have to take responsibility, Ashley."

Ashe was silent for a while, then walked to a place not far from Lance where Lance could touch her with just a stretch of his hand.

"You were asked to put your hairpin into Rowling's bag, and without her knowing it, you did so and then told the teacher that your things had been stolen."

"You succeeded, too. Now they all think that Rowling is the thief. You are just a step away from destroying her!"

He used two fingers to indicate a distance, "I have no intention of holding you accountable, Ash."

"You are still a child, you can't tell what is good and what is bad in this world."

"I just want to know who asked you to do these things, and then I want to ask him why?"

"Now, tell me the answer before I get mad."

Ash didn't say anything. She bit her lip and lowered her head. It was her father who asked her to do this. She couldn't tell everyone that it was her father who asked her to frame her classmates, right?

The more "stubborn" she is, the more problems she has. She is not wronged, she is just afraid, this is not right!
Lance grabbed her wrist and brought her closer to him.

The vice principal stood up immediately, "You can't touch her..."

Before she could finish her words, someone beside Lance strode over, stood in front of her, pointed at her chair and shouted, "Sit back!"

At the same time he lifted up his shirt and put his hand on the pistol.

The vice principal stared with wide eyes in disbelief as she watched all this happen. This was nothing like what she had imagined would happen!
When faced with unexpected danger, she finally chose to follow her heart and slowly sat back!
Although she sat back, she did not completely give in.

"You are crazy. When people know what you have done..."

Lance was a little impatient, "Tell her to shut up."

The next second, the cold barrel of a gun was stuffed into the vice principal's mouth, and she saw danger in the eyes of the man in front of her!
If Lance told him to shoot, he would actually shoot!
It was at this moment that she realized that school might be a sacred place for some people, but not for Lance and the others!

Lance would not be easy-going or even respectful to her just because she was the vice-president and might know many important people.

No, nothing, she is just an ordinary person in Lance's eyes!

Ashe's teacher was also blocked between him and Ashe. The other person's eyes were filled with fear. He didn't dare to act recklessly and could only beg Lance not to hurt the girl.

Lance didn't take them seriously at all. He just looked at the girl and lifted her chin. He covered the girl's cheek with his hands. He could feel Ash's body trembling slightly.

"I don't really want to do this, but sometimes our kindness can be seen as weakness."

"Ashe, you have a pair of beautiful eyes, more attractive than your jewel hairpin. They are as dazzling as stars."

"But your lies dim it, make it unworthy of your beauty."

"Do you need me to help you dig it out?"

"Or do you intend to make it shine again?"

Lance pressed his thumbs against her eyes. She closed her eyes but could still feel the slight pressure, making her eye sockets swell.

Ashley's legs were tightly clamped together. She couldn't hold it anymore and urinated a little bit at a time.

There was only fear distorting her expression on her face, her body was shaking violently, and she began to cry and shed tears.

But her tears were different from Rowling's tears. Her tears were filled with fear and regret, while Rowling's tears were filled with pure grievance.

As the pressure on her eyes grew, she tried to dodge away, but Lance's hands were firmly holding her cheeks leaving her with nowhere to hide!

All kinds of complicated emotions made her unable to control her inner emotions any more. She didn’t want to become blind! !
"It's not your fault. I just want to know who asked you to do this. Tell me!"

Lance asked again. Her emotions seemed to have found an outlet. Her lips trembled as she named the person. "It's Dad..."

The pressure on her eyeballs disappeared in an instant, and she gasped for breath, looking at Lance as if he was a monster!

The vice principal and her teacher looked at her in disbelief. Lance took out a handkerchief and wiped his own hands, and also helped the girl wipe her tear-stained face.

"See, telling the truth isn't that hard."

Although he knew the answer, his expression did not look good.

This was a "setup". If they had been at the school gate and subconsciously believed that the school was a safe place, and had only brought two people in according to the request of that stupid security guard, he might have been lying on the ground now.

There is a gunman in this school, but the other party probably doesn't know yet that they already know the truth, so he has to find these people.

He stood up and walked to the vice principal's desk. The vice principal said with embarrassment and shame, "Mr. Lance..."

Before she could finish her words, Lance picked up the phone, and she realized that Lance was not here to talk to her.

The call was quickly connected. "Come to... the school. There may be gunmen here who want to ambush me. We need to find them out."

"I'm not going anywhere in school for now, so hurry up."

He then hung up the phone and glanced at the vice principal, "Give me her father's information."

David did not leave immediately at this time because the door of the administrative building was blocked by Lance's convoy.

Some people followed Lance to the principal's office, but some others stayed downstairs.

It was basically impossible for them to know David, and David didn't know them, but David didn't dare to take the risk.

He's not stupid, what if someone thinks something is wrong?
He planned to wait for a while. Since he had already decided to give up this mission, he could just wait until Lance left before leaving here.

What he didn't know was that he had been exposed.

(End of this chapter)