Chapter 54: Chen Pingan (Extra Chapter)

Overnight, the farce came to an end.

However, Lin Yi had no intention of letting those people off so easily.

Chen Ping'an?

Gazing at Chen Ping'an's personal profile on his computer screen, Lin Yi's eyes turned gloomy, flashing with a chilling light.

Among the crowd, this fellow had jumped around the most enthusiastically, consecutively publishing several articles to attack him.

Right now, his glorious deeds had not yet been exposed, and he was still viewed by everyone as an upright and righteous education expert.

So be it, he would just play the role of a good Samaritan.

The next day, at a cafe.

"I want all the information on this person. Remember, absolutely all of it," Lin Yi stared at the man in front of him, speaking expressionlessly.

Dressed in casual wear with sunglasses and sparse stubble, the man took a sip of his coffee, glanced at the photograph on the table, shifted his gaze to Lin Yi, and asked unhurriedly, "I'm quite curious, how did you get my phone number?"

Very few people knew this phone number of his, save for internal clients.

"Zhao Xin gave it to me." Yesterday, he had specifically called Zhao Xin to ask for a private investigator's number.

"Zhao Xin?" The man's expression immediately cleared.

That woman was violating the rules again! How many times had he told her that his number must not be leaked, yet every time she treated his words like wind blowing past her ears!

The man felt an itch of irritation deep in his teeth.

"Hello, let me formally introduce myself. My name is Di Ci." Di Ci extended his hand with a smile.

"Hello, Lin Yi."

After some warm pleasantries, the two could be considered formally acquainted.

"Three days, I'll give you the results. First pay a deposit of two hundred thousand; swipe your card, please." Di Ci put away the photograph, speaking bluntly, and conveniently pulled a POS card reader from his bag, handing it to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi: ...

Was he really this fully equipped?

"Alright." Lin Yi took out the prepared card. Swipe—and over two hundred thousand was gone from his account.

It hurt a bit, but it didn't matter. As long as Chen Ping'an remained "Ping'an" (safe).

"Farewell!" After receiving the deposit, Di Ci took a sip of his coffee, rose dashingly, and left with a wave, without taking a single cloud with him.

Watching Di Ci's retreating back, Lin Yi's mouth twitched as a sentence popped into his mind: *Man, you are so flamboyant!*

"Wife, I won't be coming home. I still have a meeting to attend at noon."

"Alright, take good care of yourself."

"Mm."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Ping'an drove toward Hongda Residential Community with an excited expression on his face.

Thinking of that charming figure and bewitching smile, Chen Ping'an swallowed hard, gulping down his saliva.

Beep, beep, beep!

"Hello!"

"Professor, have you arrived yet? People have waited until their flowers are blooming."

"Little darling, I'm almost there, almost there."

"Then hurry up, will you?"

"No, I need to take it slow."

While Chen Ping'an's mind was running wild with fantasies, little did he know that a car was quietly tailing right behind him.

Lin Yi's life had returned to normal: typing, eating, typing, going for walks...

He repeated these mundane chores every day.

After Chen Ping'an's glorious deeds were exposed, his towering image of uprightness instantly collapsed, and he immediately became a street rat that everyone wanted to beat up.

Leisurely times are always short-lived.

"You're here?"

"Mm, the matters have been dealt with, so I've come," Zhao Xin said.

"Lin Yi, I plan on having you all move."

"We're living just fine here, why move?" Wang Xin asked with a puzzled expression.

"The security and environment around here are rather poor, and it's very likely to bring unnecessary trouble to Lin Yi in the future." As Lin Yi's manager, she had to prepare for a rainy day.

If Lin Yi continued to live here, not to mention his private life being exposed, they would certainly be hounded by the media asking questions about this and that, which would become thoroughly aggravating.

Naturally, Lin Yi understood this as well.

"Mom, Dad, let's just move. This building is already a dilapidated structure with safety hazards; who knows what might happen," Lin Yi persuaded.

The white plaster on the walls of this building had peeled off in many places, and even some of the reinforcing steel bars were exposed on the outside, a truly startling sight.

"Wife, what our son says makes sense. Why don't... we move and go enjoy some blessings with our son?" Seeing the helplessness in his son's eyes, Lin辰 felt a pang of heartache and chimed in to persuade her.

Although he was reluctant to leave this place, his son's future was more important.

They mustn't ruin their son's prospects because of them.

"Let's move!" Wang Xin nodded and said firmly.

"Alright, then you can pack up your things simply and move into the new home with me. Household items like rice cookers, bowls, and chopsticks don't need to be brought; the furniture and supplies there are fully stocked. If there are any items you're reluctant to part with, just pack them up, and I'll have a moving company come over to transport them later."

Shortly after those words fell, Lin Yi and his family went back to their rooms to pack their luggage.

Lin Yi didn't have many belongings: a computer, a guitar, and a backpack containing a few changes of clothes, several bank cards, and a notebook.

The notebook recorded songs that didn't exist in this world at this time, and furthermore, all the songs inside had already been registered!

He owned the copyright to these songs!

Of course, these songs had cost quite a bit of money. But overall, it was well worth it!

"You're done packing already?" Zhao Xin looked in astonishment as Lin Yi walked out of his room.

"I don't have much to pack anyway." Most of the things in the room were old clothes and textbooks, and he had no use for them anymore.

"Right, I plan to send you for some training during this period."

"Training?"

"Mm, training. After the training, I'll take you to participate in a music show, and then you'll officially debut. The only thing you need to do on this music show is to win the championship."

"Win the championship? You're overestimating me too much, I'm just an amateur." Hearing Zhao Xin's demand, Lin Yi smiled bitterly.

"I believe you can do it."

Lin Yi: ...

Those words sounded awfully familiar!

"I'll do my best."

After Wang Xin and the others finished packing their luggage and handed the keys over to Zhao Xin, the group boarded a vehicle and sped toward their new home.

More than ten hours later.

The car drove into a high-end residential community.

"Wow!" Upon seeing the new home, Lin Yi's eyes were filled with shock; even the houses that appeared in his dreams weren't as luxurious as this one.

The exquisite and elegant living room, the golden sofa, the bright chandelier, and the blending of various colors created an overwhelming sense of high-end grandeur.

"How is it? The new home is alright, isn't it?" Zhao Xin asked with a smile, folding her arms.

This apartment had consumed quite a bit of her thought and effort.

"This must have cost a lot of money, right?" Lin Yi swallowed hard and asked with trepidation.

"Not much, just over fifty million."

Over fifty million!

Poverty had once again limited his imagination of being wealthy.

He had thought an apartment like this would cost at most ten or twenty million, but he never expected it to cost over fifty million!

Hearing this figure, Wang Xin and Lin辰 were also startled.

"Child, we don't need to live in such an expensive house. It's enough for us to just have a room to stay in," Wang Xin hurried forward to say.

"Auntie, this house belonged to a friend of mine. She's living abroad now and transferred it to me, and I haven't found the next buyer yet anyway. So you all can just live here for now; it won't be too late for you to move when I find a buyer." Realizing she had flexed her wealth a bit too much, Zhao Xin hurriedly concocted an excuse.

"Really?" Wang Xin still found it somewhat hard to believe.

"Really, Auntie."

Lin Yi: ...

Believe you in a ghost; you really know how to tell barefaced lies with your eyes open.

However, he didn't expose Zhao Xin. If Zhao Xin hadn't said that, his parents absolutely wouldn't have agreed to stay.

Living in a fifty-million-plus property that didn't belong to them was truly a nerve-wracking affair!

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PS: Seven chapters still owed!