"I knew long ago that this pig butcher is full of schemes, otherwise he could never have played Xi!" Li Meiya said with the air of someone who had seen right through Ye Huan.
Ye Huan looked at Lin Canglan and Li Meiya as if they were idiots, and said with utter contempt, "If intelligence were graded, the two of you would definitely be at the toddler-pants level!"
"Whose intelligence are you calling low?"
Taunted by Ye Huan for having low intelligence, Li Meiya instantly flipped out, transforming into a screaming shrew. Being despised for low intelligence by a mere pig butcher was the ultimate humiliation.
"Don't get upset! Don't get upset!" Lin Canglan hurriedly comforted Li Meiya, saying, "He's just doing this because we've seen through his intentions and he's at his wit's end. It's a dog jumping over a wall in desperation, flying into a rage from embarrassment, and now he's just cursing us to vent his anger."
He wore the expression of someone who had completely seen through Ye Huan's thoughts, showing not a shred of anger at being insulted for his low intelligence.
"So that's how it is!" Li Meiya had a sudden realization. Her raging fury slowly subsided, and she sneered, "Ye Huan, you're wasting your time. Even if you use all eight hundred of your schemes, you won't escape a beating today!"
Her words reminded Jin Feiyu that he could now give the order for his thugs to deal with Ye Huan!
Jin Feiyu could no longer contain his urge to strike. He realized that Ye Huan was no ordinary person; even if Ye Huan's words were merely guesses, he absolutely could not let him continue speaking, or he really would make Lin Tai and Lin Xi suspicious.
However, just as he was about to give the order, Lin Tai scolded, "Ye Huan, you mustn't talk nonsense. As everyone knows, Feiyu likes Xi, and he would never send people to kidnap her. You're framing him like this—do you have proof? If you don't have evidence, you're harboring malicious intentions and trying to drive a wedge between Feiyu and Xi."
Ye Huan almost laughed out loud. *Lin Tai really is full of schemes,* he thought. On the surface, he was scolding him for framing Jin Feiyu, but in reality, he was forcing him to produce evidence.
"Ye Huan, I never expected you to be this kind of person. I know Young Master Jin's character very well, yet you're framing him. I'll give you a chance to produce evidence. If you can't bring it out, I'm going to the Civil Affairs Bureau with you this afternoon to get a divorce certificate."
Lin Xi was even more cunning. She had seen through Jin Feiyu's eager desire to make a move.
Therefore, she outwardly praised Jin Feiyu's character, scolded Ye Huan for framing him, and questioned Ye Huan's integrity. Then she used the threat of divorce to force Ye Huan to produce evidence that Jin Feiyu had sent people to kidnap her, baiting her mother and father into demanding evidence from Ye Huan as well. This way, she could compel Jin Feiyu to listen to Ye Huan's evidence before he could take action!
Sure enough! Lin Canglan and Li Meiya fell for it!
"That's right! You framed Young Master Jin for sending people to kidnap Xi—do you have evidence? If you can't produce any, then you're framing and slandering him, trying to alienate the Lin Family from Young Master Jin," Li Meiya clamored.
"Young Master Jin, please let Ye Huan finish speaking before you take action. If he can't produce evidence, you won't even have to lift a finger—I'll smash his mouth in myself," Lin Canglan said to Jin Feiyu, wearing the expression of someone firmly standing on Jin Feiyu's side and absolutely refusing to believe that Ye Huan had any proof.
Ye Huan gave Lin Xi another astonished look, thinking to himself that this girl was truly formidable. With just a casually dug pit, she had made Lin Canglan and Li Meiya fall right in!
"Brat, go ahead and talk. If you can't produce evidence, I'll make sure you don't live to see today's sunset!"
Pressed by Lin Tai, Lin Xi, Lin Canglan, and Li Meiya, Jin Feiyu didn't dare to immediately order a beatdown on Ye Huan. If he didn't let Ye Huan finish, it would only arouse suspicion from the Lin Family!
However, he firmly believed that Ye Huan absolutely could not have any evidence.
"I think the way it happened is this!" Ye Huan pulled out a pack of cigarettes, extracted one, lit it, took a drag, and said:
"Jin Feiyu sent twelve knife-wielding thugs driving four cars to follow Lin Xi to the airport, telling them to find an opportunity to kidnap her;
"So on the road after Lin Xi and I left the airport, the four cars surrounded Lin Xi's vehicle and forced it to a stop. I imagine that at that moment, someone among the twelve knife-wielding thugs made a call or sent a text message to Jin Feiyu to report that the kidnapping was about to succeed;
"I reckon Jin Feiyu must have been extremely excited at that moment, even visualizing all sorts of ways to toy with Lin Xi..."
Hearing this, Lin Xi fiercely pinched the inside of Ye Huan's arm.
Ye Huan drew in a sharp breath of pain, but continued:
"However, Jin Feiyu waited and waited, but the twelve thugs and Lin Xi never showed up. So he called or texted the twelve thugs, but couldn't get through;
"Thus, Jin Feiyu immediately checked the tracker he had long since had someone secretly install on Lin Xi's car, and discovered that her vehicle was parked in the parking lot of Shangyang Food City;
"This made Jin Feiyu suspect that Lin Xi hadn't been kidnapped, and that the twelve thugs had fallen into the hands of Lin Xi's bodyguards;
"To prevent the twelve thugs from confessing who the mastermind behind the kidnapping attempt was, Jin Feiyu rushed over to Shangyang Food City with his men, but only found Lin Xi's car and not the bodyguards' vehicle;
"To confirm whether the twelve thugs had fallen into the hands of Lin Xi's bodyguards, Jin Feiyu asked the waitstaff and then, using a chance encounter as an excuse, came to this private room."
Ye Huan stubbed out his cigarette butt and went on:
"The very first person he looked at when he entered the room was Lin Xi. At that moment, Jin Feiyu's pupils suddenly constricted, which shows that he was extremely shocked, finally confirming that the twelve thugs' kidnapping attempt had failed, and that they must have fallen into the hands of Lin Xi's bodyguards..."
Hearing this, although Jin Feiyu still maintained a calm exterior, his heart was already churning with turbulent shock.
Everything Ye Huan had described was an exact match for the truth!
"Jin Feiyu was worried that under the coercion of Lin Xi's bodyguards' words and actions, the twelve thugs would confess that he was the mastermind."
Gazing expressionlessly at Jin Feiyu's facial expressions and eyes, Ye Huan continued:
"Therefore, before coming here, Jin Feiyu had made thorough preparations. He and his subordinates had agreed on 'smashing a cup as a signal.' Once it was confirmed that the twelve thugs had fallen into Lin Xi's hands and confessed that he was the mastermind, he would immediately smash the cup, and his subordinates waiting outside the private room would swarm in;
"At that point, Jin Feiyu would use some scummy tactics to force Lin Xi to order her bodyguards to release the twelve thugs to prevent them from having already confessed. I'm guessing he would use the lives of Old Master Lin, Lin Canglan, and Li Meiya to coerce Lin Xi into sleeping with him, and then take photos or videos so that even if the twelve thugs confessed, Lin Xi wouldn't dare hand the evidence over to the police."
After listening to all this, Jin Feiyu finally lost his ability to manage his expressions, and stared at Ye Huan in utter shock.
He simply couldn't fathom how Ye Huan knew all of this. Was Ye Huan some kind of *Helicobacter pylori* living in his stomach?
Lin Tai and Lin Xi noticed Jin Feiyu's expression. While thinking to themselves that he truly was the culprit, they were astonished that Ye Huan had managed to deduce the mastermind behind Lin Xi's kidnapping purely through reasoning.
Only, Lin Xi had a lingering puzzle in her heart at that moment: back then, Ye Huan had only beaten up the twelve knife-wielding thugs—why couldn't Jin Feiyu get in touch with them?
Oh! She remembered!
She had called the police, and after she and Ye Huan left, the police had arrived and taken the twelve thugs away!
What Lin Xi didn't know was that after she and Ye Huan left, the twelve thugs had wept, wailed, and begged 'Hongluan' to take them away, and had confessed right there in the car!
"Are you done talking?" Li Meiya asked.
"I'm done!" Ye Huan nodded.
"You made up a very entertaining story, but it's purely your own guesswork and reasoning. It can't be used as evidence at all!" Li Meiya said.
"That's right! What evidence do you have to prove that everything you said is true?" Lin Canglan asked.
Ye Huan, Lin Tai, and Lin Xi were utterly dumbfounded. They thought to themselves, *Didn't these two blockheads see Jin Feiyu's expression and eyes?*
At this point, evidence was no longer needed; the mastermind behind the kidnapping was clearly Jin Feiyu.
"Brat, you are the best storyteller I've ever seen in my life. You made it up so well I almost believed it myself!"
Amidst his shock, Jin Feiyu suddenly burst into laughter and said, "Too bad that no matter how good the story you make up is, it's useless without evidence."
The expressions of Lin Tai and Lin Xi grew grave. They suddenly realized that Ye Huan really had to produce evidence.
If he couldn't produce any, they wouldn't be able to use the law to punish Jin Feiyu. Given Jin Feiyu's personality, he would undoubtedly launch a crazy retaliation against Ye Huan and continue plotting to kidnap Lin Xi.
"Is there evidence?" Lin Tai asked anxiously.
"Is there?" Lin Xi looked at Ye Huan expectantly.
As soon as those words were spoken, Jin Feiyu completely set his mind at ease. The twelve thugs definitely hadn't confessed, otherwise Lin Xi wouldn't be asking Ye Huan if he had evidence!
"Getting evidence is too easy!"
Ye Huan patted Lin Xi's backside from behind to let her know she could rest easy.
Lin Xi's tender body shuddered, and she almost couldn't help jumping up to kick Ye Huan to death. This cheap, scummy bastard—what time was it, and he was still thinking about taking advantage of her?
But she managed to hold back in the end and urged, "If you have evidence, hurry up and bring it out!"
Ye Huan nodded, looked at Jin Feiyu, and said, "Jin Feiyu, I suppose the text messages and call logs between you and the twelve thugs are still on your phone, aren't they?"
Jin Feiyu's expression changed drastically. He had actually forgotten to destroy such crucial evidence.
When Lin Tai and Lin Xi saw Jin Feiyu's expression, they immediately deduced that the text messages and call logs between him and the twelve thugs were indeed on his phone.
As long as they got hold of Jin Feiyu's phone, they would have solid proof of his crimes!
Lin Xi looked at Ye Huan, thinking to herself that this cheap scummy bastard was quite capable—he was going to send Jin Feiyu straight to prison just like that!
Lin Tai looked at Ye Huan with a gratified expression. Although he still hadn't managed to test whether Ye Huan was the person he suspected him to be, this single incident alone was enough to prove that his judgment of Ye Huan had not been wrong; this kid was exceptionally brilliant!
As for Lin Canglan and Li Meiya, they were completely dumbfounded!
No matter how stupid they were, seeing Jin Feiyu's drastic change in expression was enough to wake them up! For a moment, both of them silently cursed themselves for being idiots who had actually been helping the mastermind behind their own daughter's kidnapping—they were absolute fools, hopelessly foolish.
On the other hand, this pig butcher Ye Huan—instead of properly butchering pigs, he was actually this well-versed in solving cases. It was such a waste of his proper calling!
"Jin Feiyu, what do you have to say for yourself now?" Lin Tai slammed the table and stood up angrily.
*Smash!*
Jin Feiyu suddenly pulled out his phone and slammed it fiercely onto the ground, exclaiming with exaggerated dismay: "Oops, my hand slipped! Oh my, my poor phone—cost over ten thousand yuan. I wonder if it can still be fixed after being smashed like this."
As he spoke, he violently ground his right heel down onto the already shattered phone.
Ye Huan frowned. He hadn't expected Jin Feiyu to pull a stunt like this; it was utterly shameless!
"You..."
Lin Tai, Lin Xi, Lin Canglan, and Li Meiya were furious. They hadn't expected Jin Feiyu to be so shameless as to smash his own phone to pieces.
Even though they now knew he was the mastermind behind the kidnapping, there was nothing they could do to him because there was no evidence left.
And right now, Jin Feiyu had already shed his hypocritical facade and revealed his ferocious true colors. From here on out, he would probably retaliate against Ye Huan and kidnap Lin Xi out in the open!
"Is there any other evidence?" Lin Xi looked at Ye Huan and asked.
Lin Tai, Lin Canglan, and Li Meiya also looked at Ye Huan expectantly!
"Brat, do you still have evidence?" Jin Feiyu asked Ye Huan with a swagger, tilting his head with utter impunity!
"I do!"
Ye Huan gave a cold laugh and said, "There's a dashcam in Lin Xi's car. We can check who secretly installed the tracker. Once we catch that person, we can interrogate them to find the mastermind."
As soon as these words were uttered, while Lin Tai, Lin Xi, Lin Canglan, and Li Meiya were ecstatic, they mentally berated themselves for being so stupid not to have thought of this.
"Ye Huan, go get the dashcam's memory card!" Lin Xi handed her car keys to Ye Huan.
"It's useless!"
Before Ye Huan could step out, Jin Feiyu smiled and said, "The tracker was installed two months ago. Given the memory capacity of the dashcam in your car, the footage of whoever installed the tracker has long since been overwritten!"
Lin Xi: "..."
Lin Tai: "..."
Lin Canglan: "..."
Li Meiya: "..."
The hearts of all four turned instantly freezing cold!
There was no expression whatsoever on Ye Huan's face. Although he no longer had the evidence of Jin Feiyu hiring people to kidnap Lin Xi in his hands, he believed that Hongluan had already interrogated the twelve thugs and extracted the evidence.
Of course, having evidence or not didn't really matter, because Ye Huan had already formed the intent to kill Jin Feiyu. However, he couldn't do it here; it would frighten the Lin family!
"Hahahaha, hahahaha..."
Jin Feiyu burst into wild laughter, laughing with unbridled arrogance and brazen defiance, laughing until he squatted down clutching his stomach, laughing until tears streamed down his face!
After a long while, Jin Feiyu finished laughing, stood up, swept his gaze over Ye Huan and the Lin family, and sneered, "That's right, I was the one who sent people to kidnap Lin Xi. What can you do to me? Going to sue me? Call the cops? You don't have any evidence..."
Lin Xi, Lin Tai, Lin Canglan, and Li Meiya were so angry their faces turned green!
Just at that moment, a police officer pushed the door open, locked eyes with Jin Feiyu, and said expressionlessly, "Jin Feiyu, you are suspected of dozens of illegal acts including kidnapping and murder. Come back with us right now to be investigated."
Jin Feiyu's laughter cut off abruptly, his arrogant expression freezing on his face.
This slap in the face came a little too fast!
Ye Huan chuckled and glanced at the throngs of police officers outside the door, thinking to himself that Hongluan's administrative efficiency was truly high.
Lin Xi and Lin Tai also smiled. Based on what the police officer had said, Jin Feiyu probably wouldn't ever be getting out of prison for the rest of his life, and might even be sentenced to death.
Far from smiling, Lin Canglan and Li Meiya panicked instead. With Jin Feiyu getting arrested right here, would the Jin family vent their anger on the Lin family?
"Why aren't you thanking me yet?!"
Seeing the police take Jin Feiyu and his thugs away, Lin Xi looked at Ye Huan and said smugly.
"Why should I thank you?" Ye Huan asked in confusion.
"If I hadn't called the police, the police wouldn't have arrested those twelve knife-wielding thugs who intended to kidnap me, and they wouldn't have been able to interrogate them for Jin Feiyu's criminal evidence, and the police wouldn't have rushed here in time to arrest Jin Feiyu. If the police hadn't arrived in time, you definitely would have gotten a brutal beating from Jin Feiyu and his thugs. Don't you think you should thank me?"
Lin Xi laid out her complete analysis and then waited for Ye Huan to thank her.
Ye Huan really wanted to tell Lin Xi that if he hadn't come to Pengcheng, Hongluan wouldn't have personally led a team to tail him, and thus wouldn't have captured those twelve knife-wielding thugs.
Even though Lin Xi had called the police at the time, by the time the cops actually arrived, those twelve knife-wielding thugs probably would have already run away.
And even if the police had arrived in time and caught the twelve knife-wielding thugs, they wouldn't have been able to interrogate anything out of them.
However, none of these things could be told to Lin Xi!
"Thank you!"
Ye Huan offered the gratitude purely to let Lin Xi feel pleased.
"Is that just a verbal thank you?" Lin Xi was extremely dissatisfied.
Suddenly, Ye Huan cupped Lin Xi's pretty face in both hands and planted a fierce kiss right on her red lips, saying, "How's this?"
Lin Xi was caught completely off guard by the kiss and stood rooted to the spot like a wooden chicken. Once she recovered her senses, she flew into a towering rage, grabbing Ye Huan and unleashing a flurry of turtle punches and Nine-Yin White Bone Claws:
"Ah! You stinking pervert, I'm going to beat you to death..."
Being forcibly kissed by the person she hated and detested the most was something Lin Xi simply could not endure.
"Hey, hey, hey! You're messing up my hair."
"I'm going to pluck out every last strand of your dog hair!"
"Don't tear my clothes..."
"I *will* tear them..."
Watching Ye Huan and Lin Xi engage in uninhibited, playful bickering and showing affection right in front of him, Lin Tai wore a gratified smile on his face.
Lin Canglan and Li Meiya, however, were fit to be tied. This pig butcher actually kissed Lin Xi right in front of them and started fooling around with her—it was blatantly meant to piss them off.
"Alright, alright!" Lin Tai laughed and called a halt.
Only then did Lin Xi stop scratching Ye Huan, looking as though she hadn't had enough yet.
By this time, Ye Huan's hair had been ruffled into a bird's nest by Lin Xi, and his jacket had several rips torn into it by her.
"Since this meal has reached this point, there's no real point in continuing to eat. Let's wrap it up here!"
Lin Tai motioned for Ye Huan and Lin Xi to sit down, looked at Ye Huan, and said, "Since you and Xi have already gotten your marriage certificate, the wedding needs to be put on the agenda. My thought is that you should notify your parents so that the elders of both families can meet and discuss the details of the wedding."
Before Ye Huan could reply, Lin Xi panted breathlessly and said, "Grandpa, Ye Huan is an orphan. He has no father and no mother."
She had seen Ye Huan's ID card and household registration booklet when they were processing their marriage registration at the Civil Affairs Bureau.
"So that's how it is!" Lin Tai nodded and asked, "In that case, shall I handle the entire arrangement of your wedding?"
"Sure!" Ye Huan nodded.
Lin Xi, Lin Canglan, and Li Meiya panicked.
Given the Lin family's and Lin Xi's reputation in the business world, once Ye Huan and Lin Xi held a wedding, it would send shockwaves through the national business community and media; the commotion would simply be too huge.
Lin Xi didn't genuinely want to marry Ye Huan anyway; she had only used the marriage agreement to retaliate against him, and once her revenge was complete, she intended to divorce him.
As for Lin Canglan and Li Meiya, they were thinking about how to break Ye Huan and Lin Xi apart. If Ye Huan and Lin Xi were to divorce after holding a wedding ceremony, it would deal a heavy blow to the reputations of Lin Xi, the Lin family, and the Lin Group.
"Grandpa, I think we should put the wedding matter on hold for now. I plan to take some time to build a relationship with Ye Huan first, and then hold the wedding," Lin Xi proposed.
Lin Canglan and Li Meiya hurriedly chimed in, "Xi makes a lot of sense!"
"What do you think?" Lin Tai asked Ye Huan.
"Then let's listen to Lin Xi!" Ye Huan said.
"Alright then!"
Lin Tai didn't press the matter and said, "I've already prepared a nuptial home for you and Xi. Even though it's fully renovated, the furniture and such still haven't been bought yet. I figured that before the bridal home is ready for you to move in, you can make do by staying at Xi's place first. Anyway, you and Xi have already gotten your marriage certificate, so there's nothing inappropriate about living together."
To this, Lin Xi, Lin Canglan, and Li Meiya had no objections—they all wanted to deal with Ye Huan from up close.
Of course, Lin Xi could never possibly agree to sleep in the same bed as Ye Huan, and neither would Lin Canglan and Li Meiya allow it.
"You might not know this, but I'm actually from Pengcheng too, and I have a place to live here. Before the wedding, I'd rather stay at my own home."