Villains: Starting with the Landlady

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[Value: 162, E]

[Rating: 95]

[Combat Strength: F-]

[Affection level: Like]

Good heavens, Ling Yun never expected that his collision would actually bring out two more of the three school beauties!

The three most beautiful girls in the capital city are Qi Jingjing, the abstinent goddess Leng Hanyan, and the beloved daughter of the Zuo family, Jiang Ruyu.

Of the three women, Leng Hanyan was clearly superior in appearance to the other two. However, perhaps fate did not allow such a perfect woman to exist, and cut off her figure. But she did not care, because she came from a wealthy family and had practiced dancing since childhood. Even when she was not posing, she had a graceful and elegant beauty just by standing there.

Needless to say, Qi Jingjing's exquisite and beautiful face, coupled with her superb figure, makes her worthy of the title of school beauty.

As the newly crowned campus belle, Jiang Ruyu, a sophomore this year, has a very good relationship with Leng Hanyan. Some people even privately think that the two of them are like a couple. However, only they know in their hearts that they just haven't found the right man yet.

Ling Yun saw Qi Jingjing not far away, gave an apologetic smile, and turned to run away.

"Wow, Yanyan, that's Ling Yun, right? He's so handsome!" Jiang Ruyu grabbed Leng Hanyan's arm. "I've only seen photos of him before, and I thought they were heavily photoshopped, but he's really handsome in person. I think I'm in love!"

"You're such a fangirl." Leng Hanyan snorted coldly and pulled the somewhat dissatisfied Jiang Ruyu into the cafeteria.

Lingyun...

Leng Hanyan suppressed her slightly accelerated heartbeat and silently recited the name in her heart.

Chapter 82 Leng Hanyan's Past [Bonus Chapter for Donations]

"Jingjing, you're here pretty early!"

Lingyun ran to Qi Jingjing's side and took her little hand.

"If I hadn't come earlier, your soul would probably have been bewitched by those two vixens!"

Qi Jingjing wrinkled her cute nose and snuggled into Ling Yun's arms.

"It was my mistake just now, I accidentally bumped into them." Ling Yun hugged Qi Jingjing, ignoring the envious and jealous looks from the male classmates around them.

"Is that Leng Hanyan pretty?" Qi Jingjing tilted her pretty face up and asked seriously, "Tell me the truth, isn't she prettier than me?"

Do you still need to compete?

"I knew you wouldn't tell! I've met Leng Hanyan and Jiang Ruyu several times," Qi Jingjing said, seemingly recalling something. "I feel like I'm not much different from Jiang Ruyu, but Leng Hanyan is so beautiful, I'm even jealous!"

"It's just so-so, nothing special."

That being said, even though Fu Xuehui and Su Qingya were Ling Yun's two top choices, they weren't as pretty as Leng Hanyan in terms of looks. It was just that her unique temperament made him love her more.

"Do you care about this?" Ling Yun kissed her forehead. "Jingjing, you are already very outstanding. There is no need to compare yourself with them."

"I'm not convinced. Everyone says Leng Hanyan is the prettiest. I even secretly followed her, but in the end I found that she is indeed prettier than me."

Is it meaningful to compare these?

"Of course it's meaningful! Looks and figure are very important for girls!"

Ling Yun looked at him with a disappointed expression: "Are you confused? You're objectifying women!"

"You talk a good game, but if I were short, ugly, and flat-chested, would you like me?"

"It's getting late, shall we go to class?"

"Stinky Lingyun!"

The two entered the classroom chatting and laughing, and consciously sat in a secluded corner. Ling Yun had only caught a glimpse of Leng Hanyan, but the girl's face was already etched into his mind.

Ah, woman, you've successfully piqued my interest.

While Qi Jingjing wasn't paying attention, he sent a text message to Ling Yaxuan.

I need all the information about this woman in ten minutes!

Sitting in the car, Ling Yaxuan was both amused and exasperated after seeing his message, and then passed the task on to Ling Ruoxue.

Ling Ruoxue held her laptop, her fingers flying across the keyboard. After finding the relevant information, she was quite surprised when she saw the girl's ID photo: "Wow, this girl is really beautiful. Even her ID photo is so good-looking. No wonder the boss took her seriously."

"What is your family situation like?"

"Her mother is listed as unmarried and runs a small company on her own. No information was found about her father."

Ling Yaxuan leaned over and took a look, then clicked on her mother's photo.

Looking at the two women who were completely different in appearance, temperament, and hair color, Ling Ruoxue searched through the documents again and found the paperwork for her adoption of Leng Hanyan. Only then did she realize what had happened.

This was a marketing class that Qi Jingjing liked, so she listened very attentively, while the young man next to her was flipping through the materials that Ling Ruoxue had prepared for him.

“Shen Qian, born in 1980, adopted Leng Hanyan when she was 30 and she was only 8 years old at the time. She currently runs a small food processing plant.” Ling Yun looked at her mother’s information and continued to flip down. “As for Leng Hanyan, when she was 8 years old, she accompanied her parents on a trip and they were involved in a car accident. They crashed into an overloaded truck. Her father’s head was pierced by a steel bar, and her mother, protecting Leng Hanyan, was pierced in the chest by another steel bar and died from excessive blood loss.”

Ling Yun frowned. It seemed that beneath Leng Hanyan's seemingly ascetic exterior lay such a tragic past. She lost both her parents at a young age, which was truly...sigh.

Fortunately, her mother protected her. The steel bar that took her mother's life was just centimeters away from hitting her head, but her mother shielded her with her body. Even Ling Yun felt uncomfortable looking at the horrific photos of the accident.

However, his brows furrowed even more after seeing the condition of the driver who caused the accident. Although it was Leng Hanyan's parents who drove the car that hit the truck, the truck was severely overloaded, more than double the legal limit! Yet, in the end, nothing happened, and they didn't even receive much compensation.

"The Sun family?" Ling Yun narrowed his eyes. If this car belonged to the Sun family, then it made no sense.

Because of their large size and long-term vision, the Sun family's business has developed quite well. Although it is not as successful as Su Qingya's, it is still one of the pillars of the capital's commerce.

Especially the youngest grandson of the Sun family, who is a few years older than Ling Yun, named Sun Yichen. Although he is not particularly handsome, he drives luxury cars and wears designer clothes, and still manages to attract quite a few younger women.

However, the Sun family and Old Master Su did not get along well, and taking advantage of the fact that Old Master Su was no longer involved in affairs, they began to disregard Su Qingya.

Ling Yun turned his phone screen off and faced down, pretending to listen attentively, but in reality, he was thinking about something.

After class, the appearance of the two girls caused a stir among the male students in Lingyun's class.

"Holy crap, three of the most beautiful girls in school are competing on the same stage! Are they going to have a PK battle?" Wang Qiang said jokingly, then nudged Zhang Zihao's shoulder.

Zhang Zihao ignored him and just silently looked at Ling Yun, feeling that this matter was related to Ling Yun.

Qi Jingjing immediately clung tightly to Ling Yun's arm, her eyes filled with hostility as she looked at Leng Hanyan and Jiang Ruyu beside her.

"Could I get Ling Yun's contact information?" Jiang Ruyu took a step forward, her eyes still sparkling.

Upon hearing this, all the boys in the class immediately groaned in pain, and Zhang Zihao even slammed his hand on the table, his hand aching from the impact.

Jiang Ruyu seems to be the type of girl who's infatuated with boys, but Ling Yun still managed to catch the shrewdness that was hidden deep in her eyes.

Leng Hanyan remained silent, watching her younger sister's actions with her arms crossed. Ling Yun didn't reply directly, but instead looked down at Qi Jingjing: "Jingjing, is it okay?"

Seeing that Ling Yun was actually asking her, Qi Jingjing pondered for a moment and replied, "Hmph, of course I'm happy that my boyfriend is so popular."

"Thank you, Sister Jingjing." Jiang Ruyu took out her phone, scanned Ling Yun's WeChat QR code, waved, and walked away with Leng Hanyan.

Ling Yun and Qi Jingjing walked out hand in hand, heading towards the classroom for the next large lecture.

On the other end, Jiang Ruyu was scrolling through Ling Yun's WeChat Moments when she saw the photos that had been blurred out, and she found it a bit strange.

"Wait, why did he blur out his family members' faces? Is there something inconvenient about it?"

Leng Hanyan glanced at the photo beside him and, seeing the picture of his happy family, felt a thorn in her heart, making her very uncomfortable. However, thinking of the young man's figure, in the instant she leaned against Jiang Ruyu on her way back, she memorized Ling Yun's WeChat ID and silently saved it in her notes.

Chapter 83 Bar Anecdotes [Bonus Chapter for Donations]

In the afternoon, Ling Yun received a message from Ling Mengxi.

"Boss, Yao Xingchen's men are going to Laiya Bar tonight!"

"I understand, I'll come over tonight."

"There are some other things that I think the boss will like."

Ling Yun opened the package and found that it contained video and photos taken by the hotel's surveillance cameras. Last night, Yao Xingchen and Zhao Qian entered a five-star hotel, and then they became somewhat intimate in the elevator, eventually going into the room together.

What followed was captured by a hidden camera in the room. After seeing what had happened between the two of them, Ling Yun frowned deeply.

"Boss, the footage was disgusting. I didn't even watch it. The program automatically downloaded it. It should be fine, right?"

"No problem, thank goodness you didn't see it, it was an eyesore..."

Ling Yun packaged these documents and sent them to Ling Yaxuan, then asked her to organize the information about Yao Haihong's company to see if there were any loopholes that could be exploited. Such a tall building would surely involve a great deal of investigation.

Of course, there is another testimony that needs to be given to him by the female owner of the Leia Bar, along with the bar's surveillance footage, in order to truly make Yao Haihong experience the power of public opinion.

If you have someone to blame, it's because you're in cahoots with the Sun family. I had no choice but to be ruthless.

Zhang Caiwei ran over with a smile, clinging to him and refusing to let go, insisting on being with him.

"I'm going to a bar, are you coming too?"

For a well-behaved girl, a noisy place like a bar is definitely not a good place for her. However, Zhang Caiwei was determined to be with Ling Yun. In the end, the young man saw that she was about to cry, so he had no choice but to take her with him into Ling Yaxuan's car.

"Hello, Sister Yaxuan! Hello, Sister Ruoxue!" Zhang Caiwei greeted them obediently, and the two women seemed to approve of her attitude, responding softly.

The car arrived at Laiya Bar. It was a little past 6 o'clock, and the sky was slowly getting dark. It was Zhang Caiwei's first time in such an unfamiliar place, so she only dared to hold tightly to Ling Yun's arm as she followed him inside.

Ling Yun ordered two low-alcohol drinks and, looking at the sassy woman mixing drinks behind the counter, used her search function on her.

Name: Tao Xin'er

【Age: 30】

[Value: 173, D]

[Rating: 96]

[Combat Power: D+]

[Affection: Like (Beautiful and approachable, up+)]

"Boss lady, how's your bar been lately? Nothing unusual has happened?" Upon seeing his target, Ling Yun smiled slightly and drank half a glass of wine.

However, he was surprised by the beautiful female boss's combat power, which was actually on par with his current level, reaching D+. She truly deserved to be a descendant of the Tao family, an ancient martial arts family.

"Handsome, this is the cleanest bar in the entire capital, what could possibly be wrong here?"

Tao Xin'er glanced at Zhang Caiwei, who looked like a well-behaved girl next to her, and silently pulled up her sleeve to cover her tattoo.

"For example, cracking open the skull of a certain boss."

Snapped!

The wine bottle slammed onto the table. Tao Xin'er took a step forward, squinted at Ling Yun, and said with a forced smile, "Handsome, although you are indeed very pleasing to my eye, I will get angry if that jerk gets involved!"

"I guess I have a grudge against him."

"Oh, really?" Tao Xin'er didn't believe him. She glanced at Zhang Caiwei, who didn't dare to say a word. "With such a pretty girlfriend, be careful that some scoundrel doesn't target you."

"Tao Xin'er, I have a message for you."

Seeing that he directly pointed out her name, Tao Xin'er was not surprised. Instead, she stared at him silently for a moment, then parted her almond lips slightly and said, "Go ahead, handsome young man."

"In about an hour, Yao Haihong's men will arrive. Of course, he himself will not come, and you will also see a chivalrous hero you know participating in the event."

"What, you dare to come back after I knocked you out once?"

“He’s not quite right in the head.” Ling Yun pointed to his head with his finger. “As far as I know, he’s lost that memory, which is why he still dared to come here. Although you’re very good at fighting, if you get into a fight with a group of Japanese people, you’ll end up with nothing but trouble.

Tao Xin'er put the cup aside, propped herself up on the table with her elbow, and looked closely at Ling Yun's ordinary-looking handsome face: "What's your name?"

"My name is Ling Yun, the 'Yun' from Ya Yun Group. Do I need to say more?"

Tao Xin'er was taken aback, then her expression immediately changed. She covered her mouth and chuckled, "Oh, so that's it... You should have said so earlier, it would have saved me from guessing for so long."

"With your background, you should know that no one would dare to impersonate me, right? Enough said, you'd better be prepared."

"Oh, Mr. Ling, since you've come all this way today, you must have already come up with a plan, right?"

"Sigh, what can I do? I'm just an ordinary college student. I brought my girlfriend here for drinks today. I never expected to encounter such an unexpected situation."

"Go ahead and say it. As long as your request isn't too unreasonable, I'll grant it." Tao Xin'er winked at him, but Ling Yun remained unmoved.

"As a law-abiding citizen, all I could think of was calling the police!"

Tao Xin'er rolled her eyes upon hearing this: "Young Master Ling, if I could handle it, I wouldn't have to put in so much effort. How could an ordinary person stop those vicious Japanese people, let alone find out who the Yao family is behind them? I'm just a lonely and helpless woman."

"How about this, after this is over, will you grant me one request that isn't too unreasonable?"

"any request?"

Ling Yun chuckled and said, "Don't worry, I'll tell you after I've resolved this. I won't say anything now."

"You little brat, you're really pushing your luck." Tao Xin'er picked up her wine glass again. "So, tell me, how do you plan to help me?"