After being reborn, I refused to be a sucker, and my whole family was dumbfounded.

Chapter 4

Lin Ling closed the office door and said softly, "I need your help. I want to take back Lingyun Group."

"You must be joking," Yang Mengyu scoffed. "You should just continue being your family's good son and good brother."

"Besides, I'm just a secretary, there's nothing I can do to help."

"I have absolutely no feelings for them anymore. They're more like enemies than family." Lin Ling's voice was filled with boundless anger as he said in an unquestionable tone, "Xiao Yu, please help me one last time, okay?"

Yang Mengyu said coldly, "The company has already been infiltrated and controlled by your family. You're only thinking about seizing power now? Where were you before?"

Lin Ling stared intently at Yang Mengyu: "Only you can help me now. I want to take back Lingyun Group."

"Help me find some private investigators and recall the old employees."

"Pass down the notice: a shareholders' meeting will be held in my name at 3 p.m. tomorrow."

Yang Mengyu calmly pushed Lin Ling away, turned around and left the office.

Looking at her stubborn back, Lin Ling felt a pang of emptiness in his hand as he carried the duffel bag full of office supplies.

Perhaps she went to help me, or perhaps she resolutely left...

After carefully reviewing the company's documents in his office, he received a call from Su Qingyan.

On the phone, Su Qingyan's tone was icy: "At the Emperor's Feast, Number Eight took the blame. If you don't want to be disgraced and imprisoned, come find me."

Lin Ling closed her eyes in pain, countless memories flooding her mind.

Su Qingyan and I grew up in the same orphanage; we were childhood sweethearts.

She would always affectionately call him Lin Ling's younger brother, and even promised to marry him when he grew up.

But ever since she was adopted by the Su family, she has fallen deeply in love with her adopted younger brother, Lin Tianwu.

Because of Lin Tianwu's instigation, she hated herself and, like her sisters, always felt that she was the one who bullied Lin Tianwu.

In his previous life, he endured her disgust and insults, patiently agreeing to any of her conditions. He would obediently comply with her every word.

After being framed, he was forced into a fake marriage with her. She cheated him out of most of his assets, making him suffer ridicule from countless people.

Lin Ling clenched his fists, a cold smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

In this life, I will make her a despicable person despised by everyone.

"I'm talking to you? Are you deaf?" Su Qingyan's impatient voice came from the phone.

Lin Ling sneered and hung up the phone. He picked up the company's account books from the past few years and began to carefully review them, while also turning off his phone.

When he went to the company cafeteria at noon, the employees kept their distance from him and whispered among themselves.

Lin Ling remained expressionless, finished her lunch, and returned to her office for a nap.

Halfway through my lunch break, there was a rapid knocking at the door.

Lin Ling smirked, knowing who it was, and deliberately left her waiting for a few minutes before opening the door.

Wearing a white dress that revealed her bare shoulders, Su Qingyan, whose beauty was undeniable, stormed in with red eyes, angrily saying, "How dare you! Do you know how long I've been waiting for you at the hotel?"

"Fine, if you're not coming, then why aren't you answering my calls?"

“If it weren’t for my brother Tianwu’s persuasion, I would have called the police directly instead of coming to the company to give you one last chance.”

Lin Ling sat down, looked at her calmly, and nodded to signal her to continue.

Su Qingyan thought Lin Ling had given in, and said coldly, "Brother Tianwu has never touched me, yet you forcibly took my innocent body."

"Tell me, what should we do?"

Lin Ling couldn't help but let out a cold laugh.

A clean body?

She and Lin Tianwu have slept together countless times in secret, yet she's still pretending.

He said coldly, "Su Qingyan, there are only the two of us here now. Are you still going to pretend?"

Su Qingyan's eyes were filled with shock, but also with anger that made them red.

Normally, Lin Ling would have already knelt down and begged for forgiveness, letting him make any demands.

But he actually treated me like this.

She retorted angrily, "You slept with me, so you have to take responsibility for me. Only then can I reluctantly agree to marry you."

After saying that, he raised his chin, as if it were a favor to Lin Ling: "I know you have always liked me. As long as you sign this contract, I will forgive you and marry you."

Lin Ling took the contract, glanced at it, shook his head and smiled.

It stated that he would give her 20% of the shares in Lingyun Group and one million yuan in pocket money every month after marriage.

He couldn't touch her; he could only hold her hand in public.

We can't interfere with her personal feelings; the child has to call Lin Tianwu "Dad"...

In my previous life, in order to avoid going to jail and also to marry the goddess, I signed this shameful marriage contract without even looking at her.

He looked at Su Qingyan with a mocking smile: "This contract? Are you serious?"

Su Qingyan's expression was furious: "Otherwise what? You think I'm joking?"

"Lin Ling, let me tell you, if you don't marry me and sign this contract, I will ruin your reputation! I'll make sure you spend the rest of your life in jail!"

Lin Ling stood up, her voice calm: "Please, ruin my reputation, let me go to jail."