Chapter 90: Furious and Flustered

He Kai had already come to his senses from the fear just now and recovered his usual confidence.

He turned his head to look at him. “You wouldn’t actually dare lay a hand on me, would you?”

In fact, after Chai Jin had shut the door earlier, he had not struck He Kai.

All along, he had been forcing Guo Minghao to explain why he had framed him.

His methods were brutal. He had directly snapped the finger Guo Minghao had used to point at Chai Jin.

And because of that, though He Kai was afraid, he still believed Chai Jin would not dare touch him.

After all, I’m the son of one of the factory owners.

You didn’t dare do anything to me when no one was around just now. Now that I’ve got so many workers here, along with the security department, would you still dare touch me?

Chai Jin smiled and shook his head, then rose to his feet.

Chen Ni sensed at once that something was wrong and hurriedly said, “Chai Jin, don’t be rash. Explain everything to me clearly. Don’t start a fight.”

Chai Jin’s icy gaze suddenly fixed on Chen Ni.

“I grew up in the countryside. Country people don’t talk about reason. We only know that if someone slaps me, then I ought to slap him back.”

“As for those pale, powerless apologies full of falsehood, we never accept them.”

“He slapped my brother for no reason at all. Then I should return that sla—”

“Brother Jin, that slap landed on my face. You don’t need to do it for me. I’ll win back my own dignity.”

Liu Shan, who had not said a word all this while, suddenly stood up, rushed in front of He Kai, raised his hand, and brought it down in a savage slap that sent He Kai staggering sideways into the iron door.

The men from the security department behind them pointed at him. “You dare hit Director He!”

With a clatter, a whole crowd prepared to rush in and start beating people.

But Chen Ni shouted them down. “What are you doing? Is this mess not big enough already?”

The men from security did not dare move.

The moment He Kai saw that Chen Ni was still protecting Chai Jin and the others, anger surged through him. He straightened up and pointed at the group of them.

“Just wait. Every one of you can get out of the factory!”

“I’m not keeping ingrates like you!”

“Let’s go!”

With that, he shoved his way furiously into the crowd.

By now he was certain of it: there had to be something between Chen Ni and Chai Jin. Otherwise, why would she stop his men at such a critical moment?

The people from security looked at Chen Ni in awkward indecision. Being stuck in the middle was the worst.

Chen Ni’s willow brows drew together. “All of you, disperse. I’ll handle things here.”

“Yes, Miss.”

One by one, they quickly left.

Just then, some of the bolder workers outside began to whoop and cheer.

“Well done!”

That single cry ignited the whole crowd.

He Kai had spent more than a day or two bullying others by relying on the fact that he was the boss’s son.

I work in your factory to live by my own labor.

I’m not some dog in front of you, eating off your charity.

Yet someone as arrogant as He Kai liked to look at others as if they were dogs.

Who didn’t detest that young Director He?

When Chen Ni saw the commotion outside, she said with some displeasure, “That’s enough. All of you disperse as well. If you should be working, then work. If you should be resting, then rest.”

“Don’t gather here and watch.”

They liked this newly arrived young lady very much.

She was beautiful and very kind.

So someone else shouted, “May Miss always stay beautiful, and may you two grow old together!”

Once the joking began, it could not be stopped. Only after the workers had each tossed out a blessing of growing old together did they finally leave.

Chen Ni’s face instantly flushed red.

In front of others, this girl had never been like this before.

Chai Jin, too, felt awkward.

The Monkey even cautiously asked from the side, “Brother Jin, should I get lost too and leave some space for the two of you?”

Chai Jin frowned. “Do you even know what you’re saying?”

Liu Shan quickly said, “Heh, no, no. I’ll pack things up.”

The room was in a terrible mess.

Chen Ni, having quickly collected herself, turned back and said, “Cha... Chai Jin, come to my office.”

Then she turned and walked off.

Chai Jin shook his head and followed behind her.

More than ten minutes later, Chai Jin was seated in Chen Ni’s office.

Chen Ni did not seem angry at all. After closing the door, she looked at him and said, “You don’t seem like someone so impulsive.”

“Don’t you know what kind of person He Kai is? What if he makes a huge issue of this and gets you fired? Wouldn’t you lose your job again?”

Chai Jin smiled. “Then let him fire me. I remember telling you that once I found the person I was looking for, I would leave.”

“I never planned to stay at the factory for long.”

Only then did Chen Ni remember that mobile phone, and she looked at him even more strangely. “How could you have something that expensive on you?”

“Wasn’t it said that you had fallen so low in Zhonghai that you were sleeping under an overpass?”

Chai Jin had no intention of explaining much, and he only regarded Chen Ni as a friend he could talk to.

So he said, “That phone was bought with my own hard-earned money. I have the receipt from a legitimate store in Zhonghai, and the name registered for the number is also mine. I’ve already proved all that.”

“You’re not still suspecting me, are you?”

Chen Ni looked at him solemnly. Outside the window, a sudden gust of wind swept by, stirring the dark strands of hair that fell beside her face.

A faint, warm fragrance unique to a young girl drifted on the breeze to Chai Jin.

It had to be said: she was the sort of girl who would stir thoughts in any man who saw her.

But Wang Xiaoli was not inferior to Chen Ni in beauty by even half a degree.

So Chai Jin faced this breathtaking beauty with perfect composure.

After a long while, Chen Ni sighed. “You’re really stingy. I ask you a few things and you still won’t tell me the truth.”

“I’ll help suppress this matter. If you want to stay on at the factory, then no one will fire you.”

Just as she was saying this, a middle-aged man outside pushed the door open without even knocking.

He came straight in.

His hair was slicked straight back, shining with pomade.

He was very fat, and his leather shoes were polished bright enough to serve as mirrors. In his hand he held a brick-like mobile phone, and the whole man exuded the air of a vulgar nouveau riche.

When he pushed open the door and saw someone else in the office, he gave a very false smile.

“Nini, you have a friend here.”

Chen Ni seemed somewhat troubled, but she still rose and replied with forced warmth, “Uncle He, what brings you to the factory today?”

The middle-aged man was He Zhijun, He Kai’s father. It was obvious he had come because of He Kai.

Smiling, he sat down on the sofa. “I came to talk to you about your Brother Kai.”

“Do you know about your Brother Kai being beaten in the workers’ dormitory just now?”

The pressure he gave off was immense, and Chen Ni was deeply uncomfortable.

What she hated most was when a grown man got into trouble, could neither face it nor settle it himself, and then, instead of that being shameful enough, actually ran to fetch his father.

Like a three-year-old fighting at school, losing, then coming home in tears to ask Daddy for help.

Chen Ni glanced at the impassive Chai Jin, then braced herself and said, “Uncle He, there’s some misunderstanding in this matter. Let me explain—”

“There’s no misunderstanding. If someone treats others like dogs, then he deserves to be beaten awake. It’s for his own good.”

Before Chen Ni could finish, Chai Jin rose from the side and answered.