F City, early morning, Feitian Grand Hotel.

As Lin Xi was immersed in her thoughts, the hotel room's door was suddenly kicked open with a loud bang. Policemen and members of the Lin family stormed in.

Lin Xi's aunt, Zhang Yanran, rushed towards her and slapped her awakening from her daze with a loud slap across her face.

"Slut, do you even know that he's my fiance, your future uncle! You're seducing your elder, have you no shame?!"

Lin Xi licked the fresh blood from the corner of her mouth, glanced sideways at the reporters and police, chuckled coldly, and surveyed her surroundings. The man who had ruthily tortured her last night was nowhere to be found.

"That's right. I, Lin Xi, am a woman who specifically sleeps with her future uncles. Try introducing one, and I'll seduce him. Zhang Yanran, what can you do to me?"

Zhang Yanran was so furious that her whole body was trembling. She pointed at Lin Xi's nose and cursed loudly, "You slut! Caught in the act of adultery, instead of feeling ashamed, you're still so arrogant. Do you have no shame at all?"

"What is this 'shame' you speak of? Do any of you possess it? Whatever I am today, it's all because of your malign influence."

A policeman stepped forward and said, "Lin Xi, you are suspected of embezzlement and premeditated murder. We are arresting you according to law. Please cooperate."

Lin Xi chuckled, "The charges you've conjured up are really seamless."

Their trap was too perfect – a embezzlement of millions of dollars, drugging her during a banquet, causing her, in her blurred consciousness, to hit the chief financial officer with her car, who was still in a comatose state in the ICU.

Faced with false accusations, Lin Xi found it pointless to argue. She looked disgustedly at the feigned sorrow of Zhang Yanran who was crying her eyes out, her useless father and stepmother, all barely containing their schadenfreude at her predicament. In the eyes of everyone, Lin Xi was a thorn in their sides, and they would stop at nothing to get rid of her.

In return for these underhanded tactics, the night before the unavoidable catastrophe, Lin Xi purposefully slipped a drug into the supreme VIP of the Emperor's Club, spending an entire night entwined with him.

It was said that Gu Yunsheng never kept a woman by his side, and one who could become his woman could command the wind and clouds in F City.

It was a pity that after a passionate night with him, the moment she proposed her request for help, Gu Yunsheng’s face, who was embracing her and whispering sweet nothings just a second ago, turned cold instantly.

After confirming her intention, he walked away mercilessly, leaving her alone to face the impending disaster.

Men are all the same at their core. When they can't have you, they do everything they can to get in touch. The minute they get what they want, they turn their back and deny you.

Ha-ha, thankfully she never fell for him.

Gritting her teeth, Lin Xi had to pep talk herself. She really couldn't rely on men.

Her times spend happily with Gu Yunsheng at the gym over the past two years were all a mere joke. The sympathetic look he gave when she was sent to the hospital for an acute attack of gastroenteritis, was all an act, right?

No one was coming to save her, so she had to save herself.

With this thought, Lin Xi who was handcuffed by police, was now wearing a mysterious smile. "Dad, don't forget to visit me in the interrogation room. Or, the thing you want will be sent to the Internet by my friend. You can think about the consequences yourself.”

Lin Zheng Xiong was half skeptical and said in hate: "You have truly disappointed us, if you wanted to work, I would've provided you with the best job for your development, who knew you, only a month an a half into the job, would dare to divert millions and you wanted to kill the finance manager when discovered. How could our Lin family raise such a failure?"

"Disappointed? A failure? Ha, you mediocre people haven’t experienced true despair yet."

Seeing the scene, a police officer pushed Lin Xi, "Stop being stubborn, let's go."

Lin Xi gave a warning glance at Lin Zheng Xiong, her spotlessly dressed father with blood on his hands, and left the presidential suite.

At the detention center, Lin Xi responded to the police inquiries with apathy, answering every question with "no comment".

In a plot devised by her own father, stepmother, and half-sister, at the age of 16, Lin Xi had become the shameless sly fox of F City. They claimed that Lin Xi's mother was a mistress, and that Lin Xi herself was a frequent home breaker, specializing in taking away the boyfriends of sisters, aunts, classmates, and best friends. Now that Lin Xi was in jail, it should have been a cause for universal celebration.

However, the truth was, Lin Xi's mother was the legitimately married wife. After Lin Xi's maternal grandfather's company got emptied out due to a scheme by the scumbag Lin Zheng Xiong and both of them passed away, and with Lin Xi's mother's murder while six months pregnant, Zhang Qili was swiftly made the legitimate wife by Lin Xi's dead-beat father. They slanderously labelled Lin Xi's mum as a homewrecker and Lin Xi a bastard child.

Because before Lin Xi's mother met Lin Zheng Xiong, this stepmother had already lived with him in secret for two or three years and gave birth to a daughter. After she became the legitimate wife, she gave birth to a son.

Lin Xi's closest ones had been eliminated, and only Lin Xi was left, who was isolated and helpless. Yet, she still held a trump card, which made Lin Zhenxiong's departure not a concern.

An hour later, he did indeed come over, lowering his voice to ask, "Lin Xi, what exactly do you want?"

"What can I possibly want? Isn't everything in your control?" Lin Xi retorted with a cold chuckle.

Dressed in a prison uniform, her hair comfortably messy, and her face pale without makeup, she still radiated a magnetizing beauty.

Under her penetrating gaze, Lin Zhenxiong avoided eye contact a bit guiltily. "Lin Xi, your guilt is proven, even with great efforts to pull you out, you won't be able to escape jail for the next ten or so years."

"Concrete guilt? Trash father, you really have the gall to feign ignorance. Isn't all this the elaborate scheme of you, Zhang Qili and her sisters, and your children? I won't fall for your tricks. Give you three days. If I can't get out, you'll have to join me in here and rot in jail."

Amid unease, Lin Zhenxiong cursed, “You cheap girl, Lin Xi!”

"Isn’t that the truth? With the atrocious genes I inherited from you, it's no surprise that I'm born twisted, disgracing the reputation of my grandfather's family. And everyone from the your household, I’ve become just like you.”

The anger made Lin Zhenxiong gnash his teeth. “I should have killed you back then."

"But unfortunately, you no longer have the chance to continue harming the only descendant of my grandfather's family."

Images of her mother’s tragic death from a fall, and her nearly formed brother falling out from the womb - Lin Xi never forgot that bloody tragedy.

Ever since Zhang Qili took control, they had been torturing Lin Xi for amusement as dictated by their moods. She mostly endured their brutalities and only occasionally retorted when it was unbearable, which only invited more cruel torments. She was still young, helpless and unable to take revenge.

"Lin Xi, cooperate properly and hand over what you've got. I can help you pull a few strings and reduce your imprisonment."

"Hah, do you take me for a fool? You cannot wait for me to rot in jail or be killed by someone, to completely let go of your worries."

Lin Zhenxiong lowered his voice threateningly, "Since you know, hand over your stuff obediently, or else, your death won't be a pleasant one."

With an increased volume, Lin Xi replied, "Officer, I want to report something. I no longer want to negotiate with Lin Zhenxiong…"