Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 201

Chapter 201: Prison break?
Chapter 201

‘Damn it.’

[Damn it indeed]

‘I should have thought about this.’

[You would have]

‘But I ended up making a stupid mistake.’

[Well, you saved her, yes]

[But it was stupid of you]

‘Why?’

[Given your personality, I was sure you would choose the first option]

‘Yeah, well, I was going to.’

[Then why didn’t you?]

‘My feet just didn’t listen to me.’

[Well, now you’re in this situation because of your own choice]

[Do you regret it?]

‘No.’

[Then isn’t it clear what we have to do?]

‘I know.’

Wei Jun stood up after a long session of mopping and cursing himself for making such a stupid mistake. He didn’t regret the choice he made, but he had never accounted that he would pass out for more than three weeks which was enough time for Shao Chen to be convicted and transferred to prison.

And it wasn’t some low-level prison as well. It was nothing like the Golden Gate Penitentiary, it was something way worse than that.

Devil’s Bane Penitentiary.

Something Wei Jun couldn’t find even after exhausting all of his resources. Even Mark Wilson didn’t know anything about and what little Yan Rong knew was useless for Wei Jun.

[There is one option]

‘I know what you’re thinking but I can’t. I go in there with this face, and with my current strength, I wouldn’t survive the rest of the fifty years here.’

Wei Jun knew that having a record meant that he couldn’t just go in there to get Shao Chen out. He needed something else.

[I never said anything about bringing him out though]

Wei Jun’s eyes shined when he heard that. The gears in his head began to turn at the speed of lightning and before he long, he arrived at a conclusion.

‘I don’t need to go in. I just need to get him out.’

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Yun Hen Shi was partying as usual tonight. It had been some days since his fiancée’s business began to flourish to new heights and now she was as strong as the Shi family itself.

So much so that even the Peng family couldn’t force her to marry Yun Hen Shi anymore. Not to mention that there was another giant behind her now, a giant that went by the name Wei Jun Ruan.

It wasn’t enough that she was already too powerful, she also had to get into bed, maybe not only metaphorically, with someone so powerful as well.

The Shi family had done its best. They had spread as many scandals about them as they could but those scandals never saw the light of the day with the influence of Wei Jun Ruan. Some would even refuse to even write upon hearing his name.

And the misfortune didn’t just end there. A big business loss occurred in the family and the reason was him. Turned out he was too much of an idiot to let a guy get close to his sister which led to some important documents being discovered.

It wasn’t much but a loss was a loss and although it might not have cost the Shi family much, it cost Yun Hen Shi his position.

“Having fun by yourself?” Yun Hen Shi heard a charming voice. He was about to yell at her for disrupting his brooding session, but when he turned to look at the girl, he saw a beauty he had never seen before.

Cold blue eyes, long black hair, and the face of a fairy straight out of heaven. Something a man wouldn’t be able to resist even if he was a thousand-year-old monk.

“We-Well I-I—I..” Yun Hen Shi stuttered and he stuttered a lot before the blue-eyed girl said, “Wanna get out of here?”

And the answer to that was obvious.

Only….

“Yun Hen Shi! You’re under arrest for murder and conspiracy. You have the right…” only an hour later, he was being read his rights on the account of murder by the same blue-eyed woman along with many other men with guns.

Not the kind of party he had expected it to be.

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“Why get him out?” Yan Rong curiously asked, still dressed in the dress from last night in which she went to the club to arrest Yun Hen Shi.

Alas, it didn’t have the same effect on Wei Jun as it had on other men. A strapless dress with a thigh-high slit. She not only looked angelic in that but also gave a great shade of a demoness.

With her legs crossed and both of them exposed due to the slit, it was a sight that was straight-up painted out of a lewd imagination.

Even her own subordinates who feared her so much couldn’t help but take a look. Of course, they regretted giving in to the temptation but for some, it was worth it.

But here was a man who remained expressionless as always as he said, “Because I need to kill him. Can’t do that if he is in some high-profile prison.”

“Why do you need to kill him so bad?” Yan Rong asked.

Wei Jun, on the other hand, remained silent about that question and asked, “How long will it take to process him out?”

“At least five days before Yun Hen Shi is proven to be the real mastermind of this situation. We have painted the scenario as you said and it spun pretty well with the judge. With the jury selection soon to be done, I doubt the case would go for more than one hearing.” Yan Rong gave a detailed reply.

Wei Jun nodded. The plan was as simple as it could get. Wei Jun gave the truth to the police, only he changed one tiny detail. He changed his own name to Yun Hen Shi’s.

It was Yun Hen Shi who suffered a loss due to getting close to Shao Chen and then he introduced him to his sister. After that, Shao Chen somehow saved his sister’s life and became a hero and a trustworthy person so when he asked for some details, Yun Hen Shi didn’t hesitate to spill his guts, metaphorically.

After that, when the loss occurred, Yun Hen Shi was angry. He hired a prostitute to humiliate Shao Chen first and then killed her and pointed all the fingers at Shao Chen.

With the bad blood between Shao Chen and the prostitute and no other suspect, it was an open-and-shut case.

And then Yun Hen Shi buried all the evidence but one hard-working cultivator agent couldn’t just let all of this go so she pursued the matter and managed to uncover some calls made to the prostitute’s phone by none other than Yun Hen Shi.

She then investigated further and all the signs were there. From there, it was easy to compile the evidence and present it to the authorities, and the authorities couldn’t help but be taken by the fact that they put an innocent man in there.

Somehow their guilt was awoken and they did everything in their power to save the innocent person. Such lovely people.

And it was completely secondary to save their own behinds while doing so.

“Quite genius of you.” Yan Rong said.

“Not so much when it was my own mistake.” Wei Jun said.

“You couldn’t have known you would fall into a temporary coma due to your injuries.” Yan Rong said in his defense.

Wei Jun nodded and asked, “What happened regarding that though?”

“The police tried to paint you in it but thanks to Xia Lu’s testimony and the little pull I had, I managed to tie the two to a terrorist team who were here to invoke fear in everyone. And then the fact that they tried to infiltrate the Ruan Enterprises also led to my theory being accepted.” Yan Rong said.

“What do you mean by terrorists?” Wei Jun asked.

“Nothing. I just simply said that they were hired by some foreign organization to invoke terror in the country. Of course, I kept the guy you’re after out. Then I said that I was onto them for quite some time and since I suspected them, I followed them. Planting the evidence of some bombs was very easy and then everything panned out. Your actions were considered self-defense and the case was swept under the rug of the Special Cultivator Forces.” Yan Rong once again gave a detailed explanation.

“You can stop poking me with your foot now.” Wei Jun as he sipped his tea.

“But it’s romantic.” Yan Rong softly said.

“There’s not a thing in your eyes that would indicate romance.” Wei Jun said.

“Isn’t procreation the ultimate form of romance?” Yan Rong argued.

“Some might say.” Wei Jun said.

“Then what’s your definition of romance?” Yan Rong asked.

“I don’t have one.” Wei Jun said.

“Why not?” Yan Rong asked.

“…” Wei Jun remained silent for a while before he replied, “Because love is an illusion, there’s always something deeper behind. Sometimes obsession, while sometimes, or maybe most of the time, there’s selfishness.”

“Is that the kind of love life you have had?” It wasn’t hard for Yan Rong to spot.

Wei Jun smiled and said, “Nope.”