84: Chapter 84 Lin Yuan's Ironclad Rule: I Don't Need Evidence, I Only Look at the Risk

Jiang Xiaowan stood in front of the screen, still wearing Su Muxue's white shirt.

The hem barely reached the top of her thighs.

Her long legs were exposed under the hall lights; this should have been the moment where the young lady was most adept at commanding the atmosphere.

However, Lin Yuan didn't look at her.

He turned his head to look at Su Xiaonuan.

"Did you connect this communication?"

Su Xiaonuan's face turned pale.

She immediately lowered her head to operate the tablet.

Three seconds later,

her fingertips stopped.

"General Manager Lin."

"It wasn't me."

Su Xiaonuan pulled up the third-floor communication log.

A line of red records popped up.

[Last night at 23:41, a temporary video port was opened.]

[Authorized by: Jiang Xiaowan.]

[The main living room screen has been added to the personal remote communication list.]

The hall went silent instantly.

Even Tang Qiqi didn't dare to interrupt.

Thump!

Holding the tablet, Su Xiaonuan knelt down directly.

"General Manager Lin."

"It is my failure in supervision."

"Please punish me."

Jiang Xiaowan's expression changed too.

After she showered last night, she had stared at her phone with no signal for a long time.

She feared that General Manager Jiang Xiong was already dead.

She also feared that she had truly become an unclaimed item in this fortress.

So, while debugging the communication network, she had conveniently left behind a private port that belonged only to the Jiang Family.

"Wait."

"I only left a port to contact my father."

She looked at Lin Yuan in a hurry.

"I didn't leak any data from Tiangong No. 1."

"Besides, I gave you access to the military communication network."

"We are partners, right?"

"Don't I even have the freedom to contact my family?"

"Without me, you wouldn't even be able to touch the military channels."

Lin Yuan walked up to her.

He knocked the bowl and chopsticks out of her hands.

Whack!

The ceramic bowl shattered on the floor.

The bamboo chopsticks bounced twice and rolled to the foot of the sofa.

Lin Yuan's voice was very soft.

"Partners?"

"You are eating my food, living in my place, and begging for my protection."

"And then you bypass my permissions to contact people outside."

He looked down at Jiang Xiaowan.

"You call this cooperation?"

Jiang Xiaowan's lips moved.

She wanted to snap back.

But the words stuck in her throat.

Lin Yuan wasn't angry.

He didn't even frown.

But it was this calmness that made her back grow cold bit by bit.

On the screen, General Manager Jiang Xiong spoke coldly.

"Lin Yuan, you had better think clearly."

"The Jiang Family still has connections and armed forces."

"If you dare to touch Jiang Xiaowan, the Jiang Family will never let you off."

Lin Yuan finally looked up.

He looked at the screen.

"You can't even take your own daughter away right now."

"And you want to talk to me about revenge?"

General Manager Jiang Xiong's face darkened.

"You dare!"

Lin Yuan interrupted him.

"Jiang Xiaowan."

"Turn around."

Jiang Xiaowan's body stiffened.

"Lin Yuan, don't go too far."

Qin Yumo took half a step forward.

Su Xiaonuan was kneeling on the ground; she didn't get up, but she looked up at her.

That gaze was very quiet.

It was like a reminder.

This is not Jinjiang No. 1.

Jiang Xiaowan bit her lip and didn't move.

The next second,

Qin Yumo flew forward, pressed her neck down, and made her lie on the sofa.

Whack!

A crisp sound rang out in the hall.

Jiang Xiaowan trembled all over.

It wasn't because of the pain, but because she couldn't believe that Lin Yuan actually dared to hit her.

On the screen, General Manager Jiang Xiong stood up abruptly.

"Lin Yuan!"

Whack!

The second strike.

Jiang Xiaowan's eyes turned red.

She gritted her teeth tightly, not letting herself make a sound.

Whack!

The third strike.

She finally couldn't hold on, and her hands gripped the back of the sofa.

Tang Qiqi hugged a cushion and huddled to the side.

She was usually the most talkative.

This time, she even softened her breathing.

Lin Yuan looked at the screen.

"Remember."

"It's not your daughter contacting you."

"It's me allowing you to take a look at her."

He ignored General Manager Jiang Xiong further.

"Su Xiaonuan."

"Regain control of the permissions."

Su Xiaonuan stood up immediately.

"Understood."

Her fingers tapped rapidly on the tablet.

The main living room screen flashed three warnings.

[Illegal port locked.]

[Personal communication list cleared.]

[Permissions reset.]

General Manager Jiang Xiong's voice was still roaring.

"Lin Yuan, you will regret..."

Click.

The screen went black.

The hall returned to silence.

Qin Yumo let go.

Jiang Xiaowan stood by the sofa, her eyes extremely red.

But she was still holding on.

"Are you satisfied now?"

"Isn't it just me contacting my father?"

"Lin Yuan, you saved me, I acknowledge that."

"But I am not your dog."

"Ever since I was a child, no one has dared to treat me like this."

"You humiliated me like this today; if I can ever..."

Her voice stopped.

Because Lin Yuan was squinting his eyes, slowly stroking the seam of his trousers.

Su Xiaonuan's body stiffened.

Qin Yumo's expression changed too.

Wang Ya was holding a tray, her footsteps stopping at the dining room door.

Lin Motong was still sitting at the dining table, tilting her head slightly.

Lin Yuan looked at Jiang Xiaowan.

"I don't think you know you were wrong."

"You just know that you are about to die."

The color drained from Jiang Xiaowan's face completely.

"You... what do you mean?"

Looking at this man's slowly clenching fist,

she suddenly remembered the screams of Fatty Wang when his limbs were pierced by water lines at the Jinjiang No. 1 sales office.

When Lin Yuan looked at people, it was with this very look.

This man was not trying to scare her.

He would really kill.

Not because he was angry.

But because she had become a risk.

Jiang Xiaowan's knees went weak.

She knelt down.

"I was wrong."

Her voice trembled.

"I shouldn't have left a back door without permission."

"I was just afraid."

"I was afraid that one day you would throw me out, and afraid that my father wouldn't be able to find me."

"Lin Yuan, I really didn't leak your things."

"Give me a chance, please."

Jiang Xiaowan began to ramble incoherently.

"Our relationship is pretty good, right? You don't need to pay me the final payment for Tiangong No. 1; consider it a gift from me..."

Su Xiaonuan stood by, head lowered.

She did not plead for mercy.

Because if this had happened to her, she would also have sentenced Jiang Xiaowan to death.

Today, Jiang Xiaowan contacted General Manager Jiang Xiong.

But what if it had been Shen Qingyue?

What if it had been a higher-level military channel?

One coordinate exposed.

A round of artillery fire.

Or even a tactical-level weapon.

Everyone in Tiangong No. 1 would have to be buried with her.

Footsteps came from the second floor.

Su Muxue walked downstairs.

She had just settled Xia Qingqiu, and there was still a bit of blood sample on the cuffs of her white coat.

She saw Jiang Xiaowan kneeling on the ground.

She looked at Su Xiaonuan and Qin Yumo.

"What happened?"

Su Xiaonuan's voice was steady.

"Miss Jiang set up a private communication back door."

"She didn't inform anyone."

"She also added the main living room screen to her personal communication list."

Su Muxue was silent for two seconds.

She looked at Jiang Xiaowan.

"You are stupid to this degree?"

Jiang Xiaowan kept her head down.

This time, she didn't talk back.

Lin Yuan scanned everyone in the hall.

"From now on, contacting external forces without permission."

"Regardless of whether it causes consequences or not."

"It will be treated as betrayal."

No one refuted him.

Tang Qiqi hugged the cushion tighter.

Qin Yumo lowered her eyes, as if she had already carved it into her bones.

Lin Motong nodded gently.

She liked this rule very much.

Su Muxue walked up to Jiang Xiaowan.

She didn't help her up.

"She made a mistake."

"But she did contribute to Lu Xixi's mobile monitoring pod."

"Without that device, Lu Xixi might not have lasted until awakening."

Su Muxue looked at Lin Yuan.

"I am not washing away her crimes."

"I am only speaking of her contribution."

"Can this contribution buy her a chance to live?"