"But what if you misjudged her?"
The moment Liu Yutong said this, the private room fell into a dead silence.
The flippant expression on Zhou Heng's face slowly froze. He stared at the girl in front of him, dressed in a light apricot cotton-linen dress, looking as pure as a blank sheet of paper.
She really did have a presence that didn't seem ordinary.
Was he wrong? Could Lin Yue have been mistaken? Was this girl not just some average student from Pearl City trying to use Gao Min to climb the social ladder and latch onto the Lin family?
The circle in the capital—well, it was big but also small. The truly top-tier families, even if he didn't know them well, he'd at least heard of their names.
Surnamed Liu... he'd never heard of any heiress from the top elite families with that surname.
But her aura didn't lie. That calm, unhurried demeanor wasn't something you could fake.
These days, a lot of top-tier big shots liked to keep their kids low-key, keeping them out of the public eye to avoid being targeted. Maybe she was like that—someone who looked ordinary on the surface but came from a family with connections that reached the heavens.
The more Zhou Heng thought about it, the more plausible it seemed. After all, this was the capital! A place full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers; anything was possible.
He'd been an idiot earlier, thinking about pressuring her to drink, thinking about taking her down. If he had actually stepped on a landmine and crossed the wrong person, he would be in deep trouble.
On the other side, Lin Yue couldn't help feeling uneasy too.
Had she really been wrong? Was the other girl not here to cling to the Lin family's wealth by accompanying Gao Min to find her birth relatives?
She thought back to Liu Yutong's words and actions that day. Originally, she'd just thought Liu Yutong was a rude bumpkin.
But now, looking back, everything seemed different.
No wonder she hadn't been scared at all during dinner at the Lin family's old mansion. She had dared to talk back to Second Aunt and Fourth Aunt, and had the nerve to take the king crab and eat it all by herself. It wasn't that she was lacking manners—it was that she simply didn't care about the Lin family's rules!
No wonder she had shown no reaction to the Cloud Dew Club and its two-million annual fee. It wasn't that she was an inexperienced nobody—it was that a place like that meant nothing to her!
If her background was much bigger than Lin Yue's, then everything made sense.
Realizing this, all of Lin Yue's previous sense of superiority and haughty demeanor vanished, replaced by sheer terror and regret.
She had actually tried to offer someone like that to Zhou Heng as a gift! And she had even dared to threaten Liu Yutong, saying she would make her life in the capital impossible!
If she had truly angered Liu Yutong, not only she, but the entire Lin family would suffer the consequences!
Just as the two were frantically second-guessing themselves, thinking about how to defuse the tension and pump Liu Yutong for more information about her true identity—
Suddenly!
"Ha ha ha..."
Liu Yutong, seeing both of them looking so nervous, burst into uncontrollable laughter.
"Wait, wait... you actually believed me? Ha ha ha... I can't breathe..."
Zhou Heng's face instantly turned black.
Lin Yue's face froze too.
What did this mean? She was teasing them?
Liu Yutong laughed until she had to wipe tears from her eyes, then looked at them mockingly.
"I'm telling you, Master Zhou, you're way too gullible. I just said that off the top of my head, and you really fell for it, thinking I'm some family heiress?"
Zhou Heng's face cycled from black to red, then from red to green—a truly spectacular sight.
Lin Yue wished she could crawl into a hole. She had actually been fooled by this country girl! She had actually believed Liu Yutong had some impressive background! And she had actually been afraid of crossing someone untouchable!
Watching their expressions, Liu Yutong laughed even harder.
"Master Zhou, looks like you're the type who bullies the weak and fears the strong. The moment you hear someone has connections, you fold like a coward."
"And you, Miss Lin, now I finally get why the Lin family is going downhill. You all in this generation are total losers!"
Zhou Heng's face darkened completely, his expression grim enough to drip venom.
He had been played—by a wild girl from some backwater town!
He slammed the table. The wine glass crashed onto the surface, splashing alcohol everywhere.
"You dare mess with me?!"
"You little bitch, you have no idea what death means! In the capital, no one has ever dared to talk to me like that, much less play me for a fool!"
Lin Yue was furious too, pointing at Liu Yutong and cursing, "Liu Yutong, you've gone too far! I treated you to good food and drinks, and you dare to toy with us! Don't think you can get away with this just by kneeling and begging for forgiveness!"
Zhou Heng stepped closer to Liu Yutong, radiating a violent energy.
"I'll give you one last chance. Kneel down, drink this wine in front of me, and I'll let this slide."
"Otherwise, I'll show you exactly what happens when you cross Zhou Heng in the capital!"
With that, he picked up the bottle of Louis XIII and shoved it toward her.
Liu Yutong obediently took the bottle, weighing it in her hand.
"Master Zhou, don't get so worked up. I didn't really trick you, you know. I may not have much of a background, but that sister—I mean, that best friend of mine, Gao Min—she's got one hell of a connection."
Zhou Heng paused. "Gao Min? That short-haired woman?"
Lin Yue was also taken aback. "Sister Min? What background could she have? Isn't she just the daughter Third Aunt found in the countryside?"
Liu Yutong shook her head, raising a finger and wagging it between them.
"No, no, no. You've both got it wrong."
"My best friend isn't some ordinary country girl."
Zhou Heng frowned, his patience wearing thin. "Then what is she?"
Liu Yutong leaned in. "She is a proud—"
She paused deliberately, watching their reactions, then said the four words slowly, one by one: "Peo-ple's Po-lice Officer!"
The room went dead silent for three full seconds.
And then...
"Pfft ha ha ha ha ha..."
Zhou Heng nearly spat out his drink. Lin Yue also burst into laughter.
"A cop? Ha ha ha ha... you're saying Sister Min is a cop? Ha ha ha... I'm dying!"
"And here I thought she was some big shot. Turns out she's just a regular beat cop! Ha ha ha..."
"Liu Yutong, do you even know what 'one hell of a connection' means? In the capital, a nobody cop doesn't count for anything! Do you know what kind of background the Zhou family has? Do you know where my uncle works? A lowly police officer is supposed to be some big shot?"
"Sister Min is a cop? Oh my God, I thought she actually had some serious clout, and that's it?"
Seeing them laughing and mocking her, Liu Yutong calmly delivered the final blow.
"You don't see my best friend's status as anything special—that's fine."
"But she just left with Master Zhou's two friends. Do you know what they're up to?"
The instant she said that, the smiles on Zhou Heng's and Lin Yue's faces froze.
Chen Xinhuai and Sun Mo... those two idiots. What were they up to tonight? How could he have forgotten about that!
Of course he knew what those two idiots were doing tonight!
A party!
But it was no ordinary party!
Damn it! If Gao Min really was a cop, then she'd be walking right into a trap—offering up a ready-made bust!
The most critical thing was, if they were caught red-handed, then Zhou Heng would also be in trouble...
Zhou Heng didn't dare to think further.
He abruptly turned his head to look at Lin Yue.
Lin Yue stammered, panicked, "I... I don't know... I really didn't know Sister Min was a cop... I thought she just wanted to be a fan..."
Liu Yutong was still holding the bottle of wine, twirling it slowly in her hand.
"What, now you're not mocking my best friend's identity? Not calling her a 'mere cop' anymore?"
"Though this identity is ordinary, it's specifically... for catching bad guys."
Zhou Heng's eyes practically shot fire.
He, the prestigious young master of the Zhou family, had been toyed with by a country girl!
First, she pretended to be supernatural to scare him, and then she used the cops to threaten him!
The most infuriating part was—he actually got scared!
No, it was really possible he'd end up in trouble too!
"You bitch, I'll kill you first..."
Unable to hold back any longer, Zhou Heng lunged at Liu Yutong, trying to hit her.
But the next second...
A loud bang exploded.
A wine bottle shattered—no, fully burst—right on Zhou Heng's head.
"Ahhh!!!"
Zhou Heng let out a piercing scream, but before he could even clutch his head, Liu Yutong grabbed his hair, raised her leg, and delivered a clean, sharp knee strike straight into his stomach.
"Pfft!"
Zhou Heng curled up like a cooked shrimp, darkness swimming before his eyes from the pain. He nearly passed out, feeling like his stomach acid was about to spew out.
Liu Yutong then shoved him with momentum, sending his bulky body flying backward, crashing heavily into the rosewood chair behind him.
Crash!
The chair splintered on impact. Zhou Heng collapsed on the floor, curled up clutching his stomach, whimpering and groaning, unable to get up.
All of this happened so fast.
Lin Yue stood frozen, utterly dumbfounded, not even reacting. She just stared blankly at the scene, at a loss.
A moment ago, Zhou Heng was charging at someone with murderous rage. The next second, the arrogant young master of the imperial capital was taken down cleanly by the seemingly fragile girl in front of her.
She never imagined that this quiet, gentle-looking girl could be so skilled—and her moves so ruthless!
Just then, Liu Yutong patted the glass shards that had accidentally splashed onto her hands, looking calmly at the groaning Zhou Heng on the floor.
"Oh, I forgot to mention earlier—I also happen to know a little bit of martial arts."
