Strike Back, Proud Goddess!

Chapter 161: Making Phone Calls

Translator: Henyee Editor: Henyee

Lin Jiao shrank back under Mrs. Chen’s cold stare. Eyes fixed on the former, Mrs. Chen snorted coldly and said, “Ms. Lin, the people at Furao International don’t know you at all. Do you think I’m a fool who is so easy to cheat?”

Lin Jiao’s face changed at Mrs. Chen’s words. Great! Lin Ru, how dare you treat me like this?! She faced Mrs. Chen and replied awkwardly, “Let me make a phone call. I’ll call and ask what’s wrong.”

She was definitely going to call her mother and ask her to teach Lin Ru a lesson. How dare she make her lose face?! She would absolutely regret it!

Mrs. Chen sneered at Lin Jiao as she pushed down the mahjong tiles before her and stood up to walk over to Lin Jiao. “What if you still can’t get the money after you make the phone call?” With a snort, she continued, “What will you do then?”

Lin Jiao firmly believed that as long as she made the phone call, she would definitely get the money. She knew Lin Ru well. As long as she threatened the latter, she would send over the money obediently

“If I don’t get the money, Mrs. Chen, I’ll be at your disposal,” Lin Jiao answered with that thought in mind.

Mrs. Chen raised her eyebrows slightly at Lin Jiao’s insolent words, then turned towards the other ladies and asked with a smile, “Have you heard what Ms. Lin just said?”

The chubby lady nodded and the other two ladies followed suit. “Yes, we heard. Ms. Lin said she would be at your disposal.”

Mrs. Chen grunted in response and turned to look at Lin Jiao with a pleased smile. “Now that Ms. Lin has said so, it would be rude if I didn’t give you face. Okay. I’ll lend you my phone now and you can make the call, but if you still can’t get the money afterward, you’ll have to leave a hand behind.”

The other ladies were shocked to hear Mrs. Chen say that Lin Jiao would have to leave her hand behind. They had heard of people getting their hands cut off at casinos before, but they didn’t expect it would happen in Mrs. Chen’s casino… But since Mrs. Chen was capable of running such a big establishment in City W, she had to have a strong background. It seemed that Mrs. Chen would really do it since she had said so. The ladies all turned silent and they even began to think back on whether they owed money to the casino recently.

Lin Jiao was also stunned at Mrs. Chen’s words, but thinking that she would surely get the money, she no longer hesitated and nodded. “Okay. If I make the phone call and still can’t get the money, you can chop off one of my fingers. I won’t say anything!”

Mrs. Chen responded to that with a smile, saying, “I knew Ms. Lin would never be afraid of death as a frequenter of casinos. Let me dial the number for you.” Mrs. Chen unlocked her cellphone and, facing Lin Jiao, she asked, “Ms. Lin, please tell me the number.”

Lin Jiao turned surprised eyes toward Mrs. Chen and replied with a question. “Can’t I use my own cellphone? Only when I use my own cellphone will she know the call is made by me, won’t she?” More importantly, she didn’t remember Lin Ru’s phone number!

Hearing her words, Mrs. Chen cast a look at a bouncer. The latter took Lin Jiao’s bag and handed it to Mrs. Chen, who took out Lin Jiao’s cellphone only to find it required a password to unlock. She raised her eyebrows and looked at Lin Jiao as she tossed the phone to her, saying, “Ms. Lin, go ahead. But I have a condition, which is that you must turn on the speakerphone.” Seeing Lin Jiao scowl, Mrs. Chen explained with a smile, “I think Ms. Lin can understand me, right? I don’t know whether the other party will really send me the money or not. If Ms. Lin just fools me, wouldn’t that be a waste of my time and energy?”

Lin Jiao took a hesitant glance at Mrs. Chen as she thought of how Lin Ru wouldn’t dare to be too mean when she called; she would at most try to advise her not to gamble or the like. If Lin Ru dared to scold her, she would scold her back. In the end, Lin Ru would still send her the money out of fear for their mother, and then she would take the chance to teach a good lesson to these snobs!

With this in mind, Lin Jiao no longer hesitated. She nodded and agreed, “Since Mrs. Chen wants to listen, I don’t mind. Anyway, it’s a fact that Xiao’s Group belongs to my brother-in-law.” As she said this, she began to look for Lin Ru’s phone number. After a while, she found it and wearing a sarcastic smile, she dialed it out.

Mrs. Chen and the other ladies stopped playing mahjong and began to listen to her. A long while passed, but no one answered the phone. Contemptuous smiles gradually appeared on the faces of Mrs. Chen and the other ladies, while Lin Jiao turned paler and paler. When they heard the voice prompt to leave a message, Lin Jiao hung up the phone and said hurriedly, “My sister may be in a meeting, which is why she had her phone muted. Let me try again.”

Mrs. Chen directed a cold smile at Lin Jiao and nodded. “Sure. I’ll give you ten more minutes to get through this phone call. Is that enough?”

The other ladies chuckled at this. Lin Jiao could tell the ridicule in Mrs. Chen’s words. She merely snorted and began to dial again, cursing Lin Ru in her heart. How dare that damned woman make her lose face?! She would surely teach her a good lesson! Did she think she was somebody after becoming rich now? She was a b*tch, just like her daughter!

She thought that even if she did get the money, Lin Ru would have to pay for causing her to be laughed at by these people!

When the busy tone came from the phone again, Lin Jiao hung up.

Lin Ru, b*tch, if you still don’t answer the phone, I’ll call Mom!

Lin Jiao dialed for the third time…

On the other side of things, Tang Xi was sitting beside Lin Ru’s sickbed and looking at the cellphone on the bedside table that had been vibrating. When she saw the caller ID, she narrowed her eyes and smiled coldly. How dare this woman keep calling? I haven’t even gone to you and you dare come to mess with me?

Tang Xi glanced at Lin Ru lying on the bed before taking the cellphone, tucking Lin Ru in and then leaving the ward. As soon as she left, the cellphone rang again. She answered the call with a raised eyebrow and said indifferently, “Hello.”

Finally hearing someone pick up the phone, Lin Jiao asked harshly, “What took you so long? What were you busy at?!”

It was now afternoon and the sun had set. Standing at the end of the hospital corridor, Tang Xi raised her eyebrows at being questioned and her voice became even colder. “What’s up?”