After AFK for five years, I returned to be number one in the entire server.

The lights came on in the courtyard. In the countryside, people usually eat in the courtyard because it's cool enough.

Mother Shen brought the dishes to the table. There were three dishes in total: green vegetables, scrambled eggs with scallions, and a small bowl of thinly sliced ​​cured meat.

"There's really nothing fancy to eat, Lin, please don't mind."

"It's nothing, thank you, Auntie." Lin also pulled out the bench and sat down naturally.

Shen Yi sat opposite him, head down, her eyes fixed on the grains of rice in her bowl.

The meal was quiet, with Shen's mother occasionally exchanging a few pleasantries with Lin.

"Where is Lin from?"

"Linhai" (meaning "near the sea")

"Linhai is nice, the environment is great..." Shen's mother talked about Linhai for a while, then turned the topic to Shen Yi, "Our Yiyi is stubborn, she must have caused a lot of trouble for her classmates while studying in Ningchuan."

"She didn't cause any trouble; she's doing well at school."

After the meal, since Shen Yi's family didn't have any extra rooms, she used two long benches and a few relatively flat, thick wooden planks to set up a simple bed in the main room.

Shen Yi brought out a clean cotton quilt, spread it on the wooden board, and then found a thin blanket.

"It might get a bit chilly at night."

Lin nodded and said, "I've already called the police for you. The Queen Mother of the West will bring those two to justice. I recorded their voices, and the chain of evidence is complete."

Shen Yi's expression froze. She didn't know what to say. So much had happened today, and her thoughts were in complete disarray. Finally, she uttered two words: "Thank you."

Lin Ye: "Get some rest."

Shen Yi glanced at him, then turned and went back to her room.

Late at night.

Occasionally, a few barks could be heard from outside.

Shen Yi lay on the narrow single bed. The room was dark, and moonlight streamed in through the window.

She turned to the side, closed her eyes, and Zhang Qingqi's face, twisted and driven mad by jealousy and desire, his bloodshot eyes, and that desolate dirt road kept flashing through her mind.

Just thinking about that scene brings a wave of despair and suffocation.

After that, when she went to the garment factory, she stayed with her mother. The workers looked at her differently, whispering and pointing at her.

Rumors spread like wildfire throughout the town, and undoubtedly, they also reached the garment factory.

The mother must have heard those things too, the rumors about her daughter being kept by a sugar daddy and falling into depravity, but she didn't mention a word of them on her way home.

But when he was cooking, his back was even more hunched than usual.

My mother was an honest and somewhat weak person who spent her whole life keeping her head down.

Even if they hear unpleasant words, they will just swallow their anger and keep quiet.

If Lin Ye hadn't been there this afternoon, she didn't know what would have happened to her, or how her mother would have reacted to the devastating news.

Warm tears streamed down her face. She made no sound, only biting her fingers tightly, her shoulders trembling slightly.

I'm so useless; I have to rely on others for everything.

There are hotels in the town, but she no longer had the energy to think about why Lin wanted to stay at her house or why he came to this obscure town.

morning.

Shen's mother went to the garment factory just as dawn was breaking, leaving only Shen Yi and Lin Ye in the courtyard.

She was sitting on a low stool next to the tap, washing the clothes she had changed out of the night before.

Lin sat on the wooden chair by the door, looking down at his phone screen, occasionally looking up at the figure not far away.

Not long after, a person appeared at the gate of the courtyard.

She was a woman in her thirties, the daughter of Shen Yi's aunt, whom Shen Yi had to call her cousin.

The two families rarely visit each other, only meeting once a year during holidays.

"Shen Yi".

Li Yuxiang greeted everyone as soon as she entered.

Shen Yi stood up and turned to look at the person who came in: "Cousin, are you here to see my mother? She went to work."

"I'm not looking for her, I came here specifically to see you." She walked up to Shen Yi, looking her up and down. "Long time no see, you've grown more and more beautiful."

Shen Yi went and got her a stool.

Li Yuxiang sat down, her gaze sweeping around the courtyard before finally settling on Shen Yi.

With a smile on her face and a gentle tone, she said, "I'm usually busy in the county town and don't have time to come back to see you. Yesterday when I went back to town, I heard a lot of people talking about you."

"Don't take what they say seriously, cousin." Shen Yi's tone turned somewhat cold.

"Sigh, these rumors are just idle gossips made up by people who have nothing better to do," Li Yuxiang sighed, then changed the subject, "But I know very well that you must know some important people in a big city like Ningchuan. You must be living a good life, and others are just making things up out of envy and jealousy."

"I didn't meet any important people." She paused almost imperceptibly, glancing at Lin Ye out of the corner of her eye, before continuing, "Cousin, let's not talk about this."

"Actually, my cousin came here today because she's hit a really tough road. The building materials store that your brother-in-law and I run in the county town has run out of cash. Our upstream suppliers are pressing us for payment, and we're still short 100,000 yuan to fill the hole. We really can't borrow any more money. Yiyi, you're in a good position now, please help your cousin out this time." Li Yuxiang's attitude was sincere, but there was a hint of sorrow in her words.

Shen Yi looked up at her: "Whether you believe it or not, I really have no money, and I'll say it one last time: I haven't hooked up with anyone."

Li Yuxiang hesitated for a moment. She was desperate and convinced that the rumors in town were true.

Her voice gradually turned cold: "Yiyi, I've already humbled myself to beg you like this, and you're still playing tricks on me. We're relatives, after all. You don't even care about your reputation outside. You earn so much money; even a little bit of it would be enough to help us through this difficult time. You can't be so heartless."

"If you've only come for this, please leave," Shen Yi said, issuing a dismissal order.

Li Yuxiang stood up. She felt that staying in this dilapidated courtyard was a waste of time, and her gaze fell on Lin Ye, who was sitting at the entrance of the main room.

Li Yuxiang sized up Lin Ye and let out a mocking laugh: "No wonder you're keeping it so tightly under your skin, so you're using the old man's money to support a young boyfriend."

Lin was sitting on the wooden chair, his posture unchanged, and he simply glanced at her calmly.

The next second, an invisible and terrifying force slammed into Li Yuxiang's shoulder like a mountain.

boom!

Li Yuxiang's knees buckled uncontrollably onto the ground, raising a cloud of fine dust.

The excruciating pain of her kneecap hitting the ground instantly spread throughout her body, causing her to let out a scream.

She braced herself on the ground with both hands, staring intently at the soil in front of her, her whole body trembling as if she had been electrocuted.

Her bones made a faint grinding sound under the unbearable pressure, and she felt that if the force were just a little stronger, her spine would break inch by inch.

Biomagnetic field.

She was someone who had seen news and online videos, and knew what this kind of power, which could crush a person without any physical contact, represented.

The ordinary-looking, silent boy in front of you is a gamer.

They were a group of monsters who were completely superior to ordinary people; to anger them was tantamount to courting death.

Cold sweat instantly soaked through the back of her clothes, and her face turned as pale as a sheet of paper.

She was just mocking him, but now if he wanted to crush her, it would be easier than crushing an ant.

"roll."

As soon as she finished speaking, the mountain that had been pressing down on Li Yuxiang suddenly disappeared.

She gasped for breath, scrambled to her feet, and staggered out of the courtyard gate.