Chapter 4: The Sixth Life Begins, Memories Restored

The mother and daughter were startled.

Seeing Liu Zhong angrily throw down the document, he then went outside to calm himself.

The two picked up the document from the table and began to read.

The more they read, the paler Liu Yunshuang’s face became.

The documents contained information about Lin Ming, summarized as follows:

Lin Ming, from a poor family background, with both parents being workers. Even though they struggled to put Lin Ming through high school, Lin Ming did not seek to improve himself, hanging out with people outside of school and often getting involved in group fights.

Recently, Lin Ming’s grades suddenly improved, claiming he had “had an epiphany” and even did a “haircut for a new life,” but many classmates suspected him of cheating. They saw Lin Ming acting sneakily during exams, shaking his head and wagging his tail, and when they asked him about the exam questions, he couldn’t even write down the basic trigonometric formulas.

However, Liu Yunshuang, unaware of these, instead admired Lin Ming who always came to her and Xia Xinyan to ask questions.

On the surface, Lin Ming played the good student, but secretly, he knew Hu Ye from the underworld, and the thugs near First High School called him Brother Ming.

Seeing a few thugs’ photos, Liu Yunshuang’s face turned pale in an instant.

Weren’t these the guys who had harassed her before? It was Lin Ming who appeared at that time and drove them away.

Lin Ming was injured in the process, and in order to take him to the hospital, Liu Yunshuang had stood up Wang Haoran.

Moreover, these thugs had also harassed Xia Xinyan, but again, it was Lin Ming who drove them away.

“How could this be…”

Liu Yunshuang hurriedly flipped to the next page, and sure enough!

The ones who broke Lin Ming’s hand a few days ago were these same thugs!

Not only that, some thugs called Liu Yunshuang and Xia Xinyan “sister-in-law,” thinking they were Lin Ming’s women.

Reading this, Liu Yunshuang’s face looked very ugly, and Zhang Yijuan, sitting beside her, emotionlessly continued to flip through the document.

The document detailed how Liu Yunshuang, in her efforts to defend Lin Ming, had argued with Wang Haoran several times and had been late to meetings with Wang Haoran a few times to “tutor” Lin Ming.

And most importantly, there was an incident where Wang Haoran went to the school to give Liu Yunshuang flowers but was provoked by Lin Ming, who said, “Teacher Liu is destined to be my woman.” Angered, Wang Haoran hit him.

But what Liu Yunshuang saw was only Wang Haoran hitting someone, she felt extremely sorry for Lin Ming, and threw the flowers at Wang Haoran’s face.

After reading the document, Zhang Yijuan stood up abruptly, her expression stern.

“Mom?”

“Don’t call me mom!”

Zhang Yijuan glared at Liu Yunshuang, preparing to leave the living room to find Liu Zhong.

For her, a gentle and virtuous lady, to utter such words showed how angry she was.

As she reached the door, she suddenly turned her head, her expression one of disappointment.

“The soup in the kitchen, you’re not allowed to sneak a taste!”

***

And back at home, Wang Haoran was already indulging in a bath with a satisfied expression.

[Ding, host’s skill in sophistry, taking things out of context, and reversing right and wrong leads to Liu Zhong and Zhang Yijuan’s deep loathing for the male lead Lin Ming, while the female lead Liu Yunshuang becomes disillusioned with him. Male lead Lin Ming’s protagonist halo -100! Host gains Fate Points +100! Ability Points +10!]

The content Wang Haoran provided to Liu Zhong was mostly true, except for the last part.

For some reason, the original body saw Lin Ming’s silly smiling face and just wanted to hit him, even though he had been educated for many years and knew Liu Yunshuang might come at any moment, he couldn’t help but hit him.

Other than that incident, everything else was true, what Wang Haoran did was just rearrange the order.

According to the original story, the sequence of events is as follows:

1. Liu Yunshuang was harassed, Lin Ming played the hero;
2. Xia Xinyan was harassed, Lin Ming played the hero;
3. Lin Ming got to know the underworld boss Hu Ye, and they became close friends;
4. Wang Haoran bribed Hu Ye’s subordinates to trouble Lin Ming;
5. Lin Ming defeated the troublemaking thugs;
6. The thugs revealed they were Hu Ye’s subordinates, but Lin Ming just smirked and personally called Hu Ye, hearing Hu Ye’s “little brother,” the thugs realized their mistake, begged for mercy, and acknowledged Lin Ming as their boss.

What Wang Haoran did was just move items 3 and 6 to the front.

Wang Haoran didn’t claim the events in the document were chronologically ordered. If someone misunderstood, it wasn’t his fault, right?

Wang Haoran wasn’t afraid of the Liu family investigating, because the hiring of thugs went through three, four, five layers of separation, impossible to trace back to him.

And most importantly, the troublemaking thugs were indeed the same people!

Probably the author of “So Strong, So Romantic” was too lazy to introduce new characters, hence reused the thugs for multiple appearances.

The only people who could deny the authenticity of the document were these thugs, but whose words would be trusted more, theirs or the Liu family’s trust in Wang Haoran?

Moreover, Lin Ming, to arouse Liu Yunshuang’s sympathy, deliberately wrapped his slightly scratched left hand in layers of gauze and even put on a splint.

Liu Yunshuang’s sympathy was aroused, but if she found out the truth…

After breaking off the engagement, Wang Haoran deliberately left the document to delineate a clear boundary between the Liu family and Lin Ming.