Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

Ling Yu's heart felt like it was being tightly grasped by an ice-cold hand!

His pupils suddenly shrank, and he clicked on the post with almost trembling hands. Those words full of speculation and anger pierced his eyes like needles.

Was Liu Rusi… screaming? Crying? Sitting on the ground, shaking? Did Ke Jinfeng try to pull her away?

Could it be that Ke Jinfeng was trying to force himself on her?!

A cold rage instantly swept over him!

He immediately took out his cell phone and frantically dialed Ke Jinfeng's number!

"Beep...beep...the user you dialed is temporarily unavailable..."

Several phone calls went unanswered.

Ling Yu's face was terribly gloomy. He quickly searched through his address book and sent messages to several friends in Ke Jinfeng's circle who were in contact with him on a daily basis: "Where is Ke Jinfeng? Tell me immediately!"

One of them replied quickly, with a hint of drunken joking: "Mr. Feng? He was just at Rosemary, surrounded by women and drinking like crazy, and now he's just been released by the police. He's really careless!"

"Rosemary"? It seems to be a nightclub!

Ling Yu checked the navigation, then rushed out of the laboratory like a gust of wind. The engine roared angrily, and the black car tore through the night and headed straight for "Rosemary".

Deafening music, psychedelic flashing lights, and a strong smell mixed with alcohol and perfume.

Ling Yu's sharp eyes swept across the chaotic dance floor and booths, and instantly locked onto the most eye-catching position - the wide sofa, with heavily made-up women sitting on both sides. The only man was hugging a scantily clad woman on each side, and the table in front of them was filled with empty wine bottles, and there was also a sign on the table that read "Tonight's Consumer King".

Ke Jinfeng, who now has natural black hair, is living a life of drunkenness and dreams. He laughs loudly and interacts with the women around him, exuding an air of decadence and indulgence.

Ling Yu pushed through the crowd and strode over. Without a word, he grabbed Ke Jinfeng by the collar and violently pulled him up from the sofa! Amid the exclamations of the people around him and Ke Jinfeng's drunken astonishment, Ling Yu's fist, with a whistling sound, slammed heavily into his cheekbone!

"Bang!" There was a muffled sound.

Ke Jinfeng was dazzled by the sudden punch, but the pain also made his chaotic mind clear up a lot... He covered his face and saw Ling Yu in front of him with a sullen face and eyes burning with anger.

"Ling... Ling Yu?" he called out vaguely.

"You bastard!" Ling Yu's voice was filled with suppressed rage, almost squeezed out from between his teeth, "What did you do to Liu Rusi?!"

Ke Jinfeng was frightened by Ling Yu's murderous eyes, and then a huge feeling of grievance and anger surged up!

He violently shook off Ling Yu's hand, staggered to his feet, pointed at his swollen cheek, and screamed with tears streaming down his face: "What did I do?! You should ask, what the hell did I do?! I got her an invitation to Professor Qin Zhenyue's crappy project!!"

Ling Yu froze, his grip on Ke Jinfeng's collar unconsciously loosening. An invitation? Professor Qin's project? This didn't match his expectations of "harassment" or "coercion" at all...

"What's the result?!" Ke Jinfeng seemed to have found an outlet, all his frustration, defeat, and anger pouring out. He pointed at Ling Yu, his voice sharp and desperate, "She's a lunatic! A psychopath! I went to great lengths to get her an invitation, and she said I was humiliating her!"

"She said I threw things she couldn't reach even with her life's efforts, like garbage to her! Then she went crazy! She was crying and screaming! It was like she saw a ghost!"

Ke Jinfeng's voice was thick with tears. He wiped his tear-stained face carelessly, looked at the surprise and anger in Ling Yu's eyes that had not yet dissipated, and suddenly stared at him with a look that was a mixture of despair and pity.

"Ling Yu...you...you should stay away from her too!" Ke Jinfeng's voice deepened, carrying the fatigue and warning of someone who had experienced it all: "Go to the police station...go watch the surveillance footage yourself! Check her criminal record! Don't be obsessed with her anymore...it'll get you nowhere!"

Ling Yu's heart sank slowly, as if he was about to face an unexpected storm. He let go of his hand, no longer looking at the slumped Ke Jinfeng, turned around and strode away from this noisy place that suffocated him.

Instead of going home, he drove directly to the police station that was handling the case. Through some connections, he was quickly allowed to view the retrieved campus surveillance video in a room.

The screen showed a relatively secluded staircase corner on the west side of the laboratory building. It was the exact moment of the incident. The surveillance camera's vantage point was high above, but it was still high enough to clearly see the key moments.

In the video, Liu Rusi was walking in front, her steps were fast, and Ke Jinfeng was following behind, seemingly talking anxiously. But she suddenly looked up and glanced at the surveillance camera, and then it was Liu Rusi who took the initiative to walk towards this corner!

Ling Yu's heart skipped a beat.

Then, Ke Jinfeng took out a letter from his pocket - an invitation letter, and handed it to Liu Rusi. Liu Rusi did not take it, and then she shouted at Ke Jinfeng:

"Are you humiliating me?!"

"I tried my best but couldn't get it! And you got it so easily?!"

Her body trembled violently, and fierce tears flowed out! Her face, which had gradually gained color and become more and more charming, was now distorted by extreme emotions, showing a kind of despair and aggression that was almost crazy!

This completely overturned Ling Yu's perception of the cold and self-contained Liu Rusi!

Ke Jinfeng was obviously stunned by this sudden and violent outburst, his face full of astonishment and panic.

He subconsciously took a step forward, as if wanting to explain, and at the same time stretched out his hand, probably wanting to support her trembling shoulders, or to hand her the invitation - a physical contact with the intention of comforting.

It was this action that became the last straw that broke the camel's back!

The moment Ke Jinfeng's fingers were about to touch her shoulder, Liu Rusi felt like she had been struck by a high voltage! She flung herself back with such force that she fell to the ground! Immediately, a piercing scream, filled with extreme fear and resistance, tore through the silent surveillance footage:

'Don't touch me!'

She curled up on the ground, holding her head tightly with both hands, her body shaking like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind. Her expression of despair and helplessness made Ling Yu, who was separated by the screen, feel a suffocating palpitation.

Ke Jinfeng was completely panicked. He obviously hadn't expected things to develop to this point. He tried to approach her in a panic, trying to pull her up from the ground, probably still explaining something.

But this undoubtedly exacerbated Liu Rusi's collapse. She screamed and dodged backwards, waving her arms desperately to resist his touch, and even followed it with an even more shrill cry: "Help! Help!"

At this moment, students who heard the screams from downstairs rushed up. Several boys immediately stepped forward to stop the bewildered Ke Jinfeng. Someone quickly called the police...

The picture freezes at the moment when Liu Rusi curls up on the ground and breaks down crying.

Ling Yu stood frozen in front of the screen, her body cold. All her anger vanished, replaced by a bone-deep chill and immense confusion.

Invitation...Touch...Scream...Collapse...

Ke Jinfeng's desperate cries of "madman", "lunatic"... overlapped with the completely out-of-control Liu Rusi shown in the surveillance video.

He thought that after two years of observation, he had come to understand her indifference, her tenacity, and her transformation well enough...but he had never touched the deep, dark vortex beneath the iceberg that seemed to devour everything.

However, the shocking discoveries of this trip have just begun!

First, there is a scene of mediation between three people.

After all, there was no actual sexual assault; Ke Jinfeng's touching of her was out of concern, not harassment, so the police took them to the mediation room...

The atmosphere in the scene remained tense. Liu Rusi sat in her chair, her body slightly hunched, her shoulders still twitching slightly, tears still etched on her face. The eyes that had sparkled so brightly in Professor Qin's class not long ago were now filled with fear and deep fatigue, as fragile as if they would break at the slightest touch.

She sobbed softly and kept apologizing to the mediator and the student who called the police:

"I'm sorry... I'm really sorry... I... I just lost control of my emotions... He didn't... He didn't mean to hurt me... I thought he had given up, and he suddenly came back, and I thought he was going to do something bad... I was so scared..." Her voice was nasal and intermittent, full of helplessness and self-blame.

Her expression was like a precise, soft knife. Ke Jinfeng, who had been simmering with anger because of being publicly accused, looked at the woman before him, weeping and constantly admitting her faults. Then, thinking of her collapse in the stairwell, his anger was like being poured with a basin of cold water, and he was instantly left with only a sense of suffocation and inexplicable irritation.

He scratched his hair irritably, turned his head away, no longer looking at her, and did not refute her.

However, the righteous senior who called the police couldn't accept this "reconciliation." He stood up abruptly, pointed at Ke Jinfeng, and his voice rose with emotion: "Junior Liu, why are you apologizing? He was the one who harassed you first! How many times has he been pestering you before? The whole school knows it! And why did he sneak back this time? Who knows what he's up to? It's perfectly normal for you to be afraid of him and scream for help! People like him shouldn't be in our school!"

"Who the hell do you think you are?! You're the one farting here?!" Ke Jinfeng was completely enraged! The pent-up anger he had felt towards Liu Rusi instantly found an outlet! Like an enraged lion, he suddenly jumped up from his chair, his eyes red as he lunged at the senior, his fists whistling like the wind!

"Stop!" The mediator and the police nearby reacted quickly and rushed forward to stop the furious Ke Jinfeng.

The scene was chaotic for a while.

The senior student was obviously young and hot-headed. When Ke Jinfeng pointed at his nose and scolded him, he became even more furious. He stiffened his neck and shouted, "Who am I? I'm a senior student at the Medical School of XX University! Chen Yu! I won't change my name! And you, Ke Jinfeng, are not even a student of our school! Who do you think you are? You just rely on your family's money..."

"Senior! Please stop talking! It's all my fault! I lost control of my emotions... It has nothing to do with him..." Liu Rusi's crying voice suddenly became louder, with a kind of despair that was almost begging. She stood up, looked at Chen Yu with tears in her eyes, shook her head vigorously, and successfully interrupted his more intense words.

This mediation, with Liu Rusi sobbing, apologizing and blaming herself from time to time, finally reached a "peaceful" solution with difficulty.

Final result: Ke Jinfeng was severely warned and formally banned from entering the campus of xx University for any reason.

Although the brave senior Chen Yu failed to "severely punish" Ke Jinfeng, he received a deep bow and a tearful "Thank you, senior..." from Liu Rusi as she left.

An almost sacred glow, a mixture of satisfied protective desire and gratitude, suddenly appeared on his face, as if an invisible medal of honor was hung on his chest.

Ling Yu watched all this in silence.

From a God's perspective, he clearly captured every subtle expression and movement of Liu Rusi.

Her crying was real, and the aftermath of the breakdown was still there, but… behind those apologies and self-deprecating words, in the perfect timing of her interrupting Chen Yu, in the rhythm of the mediation moving smoothly towards the final result, Ling Yu felt a sense of cold, precise guidance.

Like a brilliant director, she used tears and vulnerability as weapons to precisely manipulate the emotions and reactions of everyone present, ultimately achieving the result she wanted—to get Ke Jinfeng out completely, and in a "legal and compliant" manner without leaving any consequences.

After watching the video of the mediation room, Ling Yu thought that this thrilling journey of discovery was finally over.

He rubbed his brows tiredly and prepared to leave.

"Mr. Ling," the staff member accompanying him to review the video said hesitantly, with a hint of hesitation and subtle inquiry on his face, "Would you... like to also take a look at... Liu Rusi's criminal record?"

"Criminal record?" Ling Yu turned around in confusion, thinking she had misheard. "What did you say? What criminal record?"

"Hiss... It happened five or six years ago. It was a case of self-defense resulting in death." The staff felt it was necessary to give a reminder to prevent these young men from pursuing girls recklessly by just looking at their faces, which could lead to tragedy.

"Self-defense... resulting in death?!" Ling Yu's voice rose, filled with disbelief and horror. "Her? Liu Rusi? When did it happen?!"

The staff searched the computer and pulled up brief records: "The time... probably the summer after she graduated from junior high school, close to the start of school. She wasn't yet sixteen. The location was a county town near her hometown."

He paused, as if trying to organize his words, and briefly recounted the cold past that was enough to outline the girl's desperate situation:

"Records show she was in a very difficult situation at the time. She had just graduated from junior high school and left the boarding school where she had lived for many years. Because she was underage and financially strapped, she couldn't find a job or a place to live. She went to visit both her parents separately."

"Her mother...had remarried. She went to look for her, but they didn't take her in..."

"Her father... took her in, but..." the staff member's tone was barely perceptible with a hint of heaviness, "There was a new mistress in that household and a half-brother who was about thirteen years old at the time. The mistress hated her immensely. As soon as she moved in, she made all the chores her, and sometimes even went out of her way to make things difficult for her..."

"She said that what she couldn't stand the most was that the so-called brother was precocious and had a bad character... She lost a lot of her underwear..." Officer Li didn't elaborate, but Ling Yu could already imagine the disgusting humiliation and uneasiness.