Empire of Shadows

Chapter 660: There be a troublesome person [666+13]

In one's life, there will always be that one moment, when a dazzling ray of sunlight illuminates that part of life, even if it's just for a moment!

Luo Lin stared directly into Lance's eyes, her eyes filled with tears, so much so that Lance appeared blurry and indistinct in her vision, "I didn't take it!"

"I have never taken anything from anyone!"

She almost screamed it out, the grievances in her heart like a flood bursting its banks, large tears falling down her face.

The sensitive and fragile girl was framed, gossiped about, and threatened by the teacher without knowing the truth, and now she seemed to want to cry out all her grievances!

The vice-principal's face was also very unsightly, she sighed softly, "Mr. Lance, although I am also unwilling for such a thing to happen, the fact is that we found the missing item of her classmate in Miss Luo Lin's schoolbag."

Lance glanced at her sideways, "Call the person who said their thing was lost, I'll ask her."

The vice-principal hesitated for a moment, but still did so. The girl's father was a Social Democratic representative, and also a successful businessman.

The order of these two relationships may be somewhat reversed. Looking at it the other way around, he was first a successful businessman, with his own career, so he became a representative of the people—representing those workers who worked for him.

This kind of character has political influence, as well as financial resources, and can often talk with people within the Social Democratic Party, although he is not considered a particularly big figure.

But apart from other things, he is definitely much more powerful than her, the vice-principal.

Just... she glanced at Lance and the people standing behind Lance, and still picked up the phone, "Bring the girl who lost something to my office."

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

But it seemed that she did not intend to do so, she wanted to use this method to express her inner dissatisfaction with Lance!

About seven or eight minutes later, footsteps came from outside the door, accompanied by a knock on the door and the vice-principal's "Come in," a teacher and a beautiful blonde girl came in from outside the door.

She wore a beautiful gem butterfly hairpin on her head, very beautiful, and should be very much in line with the girls' hearts, and the price is not cheap.

"What's your name?" the vice-principal asked. She had not asked the girl's name before, she had only treated it as a very simple little thing to deal with.

"Aixi, Madam Principal," the little girl glanced timidly at Lance, even if she was dull, she knew that Luo Lin's "guardian" had come.

She framed Luo Lin, and was instinctively a little guilty, but what she showed was a kind of timidity and fear.

The teacher behind her reached out and pressed her shoulder, giving her an encouraging look, "We are all here, no one can hurt you."

Aixi nodded, but still didn't dare to look at Lance much.

In fact, Lance was very handsome, so handsome that it was a bit dazzling. If it was normal, she would definitely stare unblinkingly, but now, she didn't dare to look.

Lance exuded something that made her feel scared, and now she wanted to pee a little!

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

On the one hand, he believed Luo Lin. Just now, Luo Lin's performance was indeed the emotional change of a very aggrieved child, unless she had the acting skills of a movie queen, otherwise it could not be faked.

On the other hand, he had a hunch that this matter was not aimed at Luo Lin.

That was just a sensitive, fragile, and somewhat inferior girl, she would not be a threat to anyone, and it was impossible to hurt anyone.

But now they were treating her like this, there was only one possibility.

The target was him, Lance.

So he believed that this girl named Aixi was lying.

"I... no, sir," she still lowered her head and dared not look at Lance, stubbornly refusing to admit Lance's question.

Lance was some distance away from her, "Come to my side."

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

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

"Actually, you have no reason to join such a game, but you have joined in, no matter who asked you to do this, you have become a part of the game."

"You have to take responsibility, Aixi."

Aixi was silent for a while, and walked to a place not far from Lance, Lance only had to reach out to touch her.

"Someone asked you to put your hairpin in Luo Lin's schoolbag, without her knowing, you did it, and then told the teacher that your thing was stolen."

"You also succeeded, now they all think Luo Lin is the thief, you are only a tiny bit away from ruining her!"

He gestured a little distance with two fingers, "I have no intention of pursuing your responsibility, Aixi."

"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, before I get angry, tell me the answer."

Aixi didn't speak, she bit her lip, lowered her head, it was her father who asked her to do this, she couldn't tell everyone that her father asked her to frame her classmate, right?

The more she showed this "stubborn" look, the more it showed that she had a problem.

She was not wronged, just afraid, this was not right!

Lance grabbed her wrist and brought her closer to himself.

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 loudly, "Sit back!"

At the same time, he lifted his coat and put his hand on the gun.

The vice-principal stared wide-eyed, looking at everything that happened in disbelief, this was not the same as what she imagined would happen!

In the face of the danger she had not expected, she finally chose to follow her heart and slowly sat back!

Although she sat back, she did not completely compromise.

"Crazy, you are simply crazy, when people know all this you have done..."

Lance was a little impatient, "Shut her up."

The next second, the cold gun barrel was stuffed into the vice-principal's mouth, she saw danger in the eyes of the person in front of her!

If Lance asked him to shoot, he would really shoot!

It was also at this moment that she realized that the school might be a sacred place for some people, but for Lance and them, it was not!

Lance would not be so easy-going or even respectful to her because of her identity as the vice-principal and the number of big shots she might know.

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

Aixi's teacher was also blocked between him and Aixi, the other party's eyes were filled with something that made her teacher feel fear, he dared not mess around, and could only beg Lance not to hurt the girl.

Lance didn't take them seriously at all, he just looked at the girl, raised her chin, he covered the girl's cheeks with his hands, he could feel Aixi's body trembling slightly.

"I really don't want to do this, but sometimes our kindness is taken as weakness."

"Aixi, you have beautiful eyes, more attractive than your gem hairpin, they are as dazzling as stars."

"But your lies have made them dim, making them unworthy of your beauty."

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

"Or are you going to let it shine again?"

Lance's thumb pressed on her eyes, she closed her eyes, but could still feel the slight pressure, making her eye sockets swell.

Aixi's legs were tightly clamped, she couldn't hold it anymore, and peed out a little.

Her face was only left with the horror that distorted her expression, and her body was also trembling violently, and she began to cry and shed tears.

It's just that her tears and Luo Lin's tears were different, her tears were full of fear and regret, while Luo Lin's tears only had pure grievances.

As the pressure on her eyes became greater and greater, she wanted to escape, but Lance's hands tightly held her cheeks, making her nowhere to hide!

All kinds of complex emotions made her uncontrollably unable to control the emotions in her heart, 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 for venting, and her lips trembled as she said that person, "It's Dad..."

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

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

"Look, telling the truth is not difficult."

Although he knew the answer, his face was not good.

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

There were gunmen in this school, but now the other party should not know that they already knew the truth, then he had to find these people.

He stood up and walked to the vice-principal's desk, the vice-principal said with an embarrassed and ashamed face, "Mr. Lance..."

Before she could finish speaking, Lance picked up the phone, and she realized that Lance was not here to say anything to her.

The call connected quickly. "Come to...the school. There might be gunmen lying in wait for me here. I need them found."

"I'm staying put in the school for now. Hurry."

He hung up the phone and glanced at the vice-principal. "Get me her father's information."

David didn't leave immediately because the entrance to the administration building was blocked by Lance's motorcade.

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

They probably didn't know David, and David didn't know them, but he didn't dare take the risk.

He wasn't stupid. What if someone thought something was wrong?

He decided to wait. Since he'd already decided to abandon the mission, he could wait for Lance to leave before leaving himself.

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