?Chapter 83: Episode 83: No Mercy for Scumbags Part 4 Chapter 83: Episode 83: No Mercy for Scumbags Part 4 “Kid, casually lying isn’t a good habit, you know,” Li Jiniang said in a different accent to Li Meng, “All the texts in your phone, they’re about borrowing money. I bet you’ve swindled quite a bit, haven’t you?”

    “No, no, no!” Li Meng hurriedly denied, “I did borrow money, but they didn’t give it to me!”

    No one knew who had given him such courage. The text messages clearly showed evidence of loans and receipts, yet Li Meng still craftily denied it.

    “Honey, I need to pay rent today. Can you lend me 2000 yuan? I’ll pay you back in a couple of days once I get reimbursed for the teaching aids I’m buying for the professor. April 3rd, 4:22 PM,” Li Jiniang saw the exchange of texts with Yao Shanshan and had Kang Siyin read it aloud, time and all.

    “I’ll give you 2500. It’s been transferred to your bank account, check if it’s enough. Don’t starve yourself because of buying things for others. April 3rd, 4:30 PM.”

    “Babe, the landlord said if I don’t pay rent, he’ll kick me out onto the street… Have pity on your future great artist! April 10th, 11:02 AM,” Kang Siyin read another text about borrowing rent money.

    “Received! I’ve sent the money. Your landlord is also nag, nag, naging, it’s like he’s rushing us to the grave! I’ll come see you tonight, miss me? April 10th, 2:23 PM.”

    “Dude, how many apartments are you renting? In just half a month, you’ve used the excuse of not having rent to borrow another 10,000 yuan from 5 different women! Where’s all that money going? Spill the beans!” Kang Siyin also tapped the rolling pin on the table in front of Li Meng that Zhou Xuyin had used earlier.

    Listening to the text messages, Li Meng, who was nearly having a heart attack, was startled by the tap of the rolling pin, “It’s… it’s all spent on tuition fees!”

    “Tuition fees? Really?” Zhou Xueyin asked again skeptically, “Then what about this text message?”

    “Husband! You’re wonderful! With your 10,000 yuan, we’ve taken another step closer to buying a house in Beijing! Love you, love you! April 15th, 5:00 PM,” Zhou Xueyin imitated, using a voice that made one’s skin crawl.

    “This… this person is a scammer! It’s her! She took all my money! You shouldn’t be tying me up, go ask her for the money!” Li Meng seemed to have found a scapegoat and desperately tried to exonerate himself.

    “Hmm… It seems their relationship isn’t ordinary. How about this? We’ll… and then…” Zhou Xueyin pretended to discuss a strategy with Li Jiniang and Kang Siyin, her voice rising and falling unpredictably.

    The way she modulated her speech was so comical, it nearly made the two of them burst into laughter.

    “Get the knife!” Zhou Xueyin said fiercely.

    “What for? What are you going to do? I told you, she’s a scammer! Even if you sent her my pathetic picture, she wouldn’t give you any money!” Blindfolded, Li Meng had no idea what was happening; his nerves on edge, he twisted his bound body and shook his head desperately in an attempt to throw off the blindfold.

    “Behave yourself!” Zhou Xueyin grabbed Li Meng’s shaking head.

    Using the back of the knife, Li Jiniang gently traced Li Meng’s wrist so he would feel a chill, making him think he was being cut.

    Then Kang Siyin dropped warm water from a wet paper towel onto his hand, and turned on the tap in the makeshift room to have water drip into a bowl, imitation the sound of cleansing drips.

    Frankly, after this series of actions, Li Meng really thought he was bleeding out: “Don’t, don’t kill me! That person is my legit girlfriend! She’s a model! Call her and have her bring the money!”

    “You say she’s your girlfriend, and we should believe that? What about this one where you borrow money? Calling them ‘baby’ and ‘wife’ with such endearment!” Zhou Xueyin interrogated Li Meng like a criminal.

    “It’s… they all came onto me first!” Li Meng spoke without thinking. S~ea??h the N??elFirё.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    “Fuck your bullshit!” Zhou Xueyin cursed bluntly, “Let me tell you, once the human body loses 20% of its blood, that’s around 1200 milliliters, you’re a goner! And a single drop of blood from your vein is about 0.05 milliliters, so according to the rate of blood flow…”

    “Spit it out, what’s going on with you and Yao Shanshan and the others! Otherwise, you’ll bleed out in this desolate environment!” Kang Siyin snatched Zhou Xueyin’s line, scaring Li Meng.

    By then, Li Meng truly believed he was bleeding and his face had turned deathly pale: “I’ll talk, I’ll tell everything! After I do, you have to save me! You must!”

    The guy probably was scared silly by then, spilling all about his dealings with several girls, admitting to coercing some of them and even taking compromising photos to threaten them.

    But those girls all cared about their image, so they paid to make the problems go away, even though it was just a few thousand yuan, but it also allowed Li Meng to make a decent profit.

    Part of it was indeed used to pay for the expensive tuition fees of a master’s in fine arts, while the rest was saved up with his official girlfriend.

    His official girlfriend knew he was doing these things, but in order to secure a foothold in Beijing, she turned a blind eye. Moreover, to earn more money, she even started doing peripheral business.

    “In my phone, there’s a text message with no recipient, that’s where I recorded the names of those girls, along with the money they gave me…” In order to save his life, Li Meng confessed everything.

    “So you’re collecting them like stamps? And you even kept a record?” Zhou Xueyin said as she checked the message, growing angrier by the second, “Bastard, son of a bitch! How many girls have you ruined!”

    These names of girls, these records of payments of a thousand, eight hundred yuan.

    “KK, did you get all that he said recorded?” Zhou Xueyin then removed the blindfold from Li Meng’s head, “You’re going to die understanding why!”

    Blinded by the sudden removal of the blindfold, Li Meng squinted against the bright light, making out the three people in front of him.

    “CNM! You three little bitches! Kidnapping is illegal! And… and so is intentional injury, it could all send you to jail!” Li Meng, upon recognizing it was Zhou Xueyin and the other two, yelled frantically.

    If it weren’t for the fact that he was still tied to a chair, he probably would have jumped up to fight, completely forgetting that he had been “cut on the wrist”.

    “When you let me go, I’m going to the police station to complain about you! I’ll get you all arrested!”

    “Sure, go ahead. Tell the police: Officer, I was kidnapped by three women thugs. See if the police believe you or us?” Li Jiniang said indifferently, looking at him.

    “Wow, believe it or not, if you go to the police, the next day the whole world will know that a self-proclaimed artist claims he was kidnapped by three frail women. Wow, hahahaha… that’s killing me, hahahaha,” Zhou Xueyin deliberately laughed exaggeratedly.

    “Go on, tell! But don’t forget, everything you just said, we’ve got it recorded. Not only that, the texts from your phone, they’re all sent to my phone now. If we expose all this material…” Kang Siyin said contemptuously, tilting her head at Li Meng.

    “Consider yourself tough!” Li Meng glared at the three of them venomously, yet he was powerless to do anything.

    Not only had he confessed everything in his fear of dying, but even the most private messages in his phone had been taken.

    Just adding up this money, it was enough to cause him trouble in prison.

    “Tell me, what do I have to do for you guys to let me go? I know I was wrong…” While his mouth admitted his fault, his attitude was one of: I can’t let this trivial matter ruin my reputation, I still have a bright future ahead of me!

    “Oh, you know you’re wrong, that’s good. All you have to do is return the money to the girls on the list, and we can let this incident slide!” Zhou Xueyin looked down on Li Meng, “Oh right, Yao Shanshan’s medical expenses, please reimburse those too. After all, you’re the one who needs your ass wiped!”

    “Based on…” Li Meng was about to retort but then remembered Zhou Xueyin and the others had responsibilities for injuring him as well, “I can return the money, but not the medical expenses! You’ve inflicted harm on me too? I’m already feeling dizzy and anemic.”

    “Look to your left…” Zhou Xueyin hinted with her mouth.

    When Li Meng looked to the left and saw the dripping tap water, he realized then that he hadn’t been slashed on the wrist, and he completely gave up any fight.

    With video evidence to boot, Li Meng had no way to argue back, so he obediently went to the ATM and returned the money he’d taken from Yao Shanshan to Zhou Xuyin and also paid the hospital bills.

    The money from the other girls was also returned in full, under the threat of being exposed online by the three.

    Li Meng was thoroughly humiliated this time, but he didn’t dare say much else. After all, being locked up for an afternoon by three girls was a huge embarrassment for an arrogant artist man.

    This time, he truly learned his lesson: ill-gotten gains must eventually be returned…