novelraw Chapter 516 - 317: Look at That Out-of-Province Rich Kid, Professional Villain!
Chapter 516 - 317: Look at That Out-of-Province Rich Kid, Professional Villain!
As soon as Mr. Lewis mentioned this, the group chat exploded with messages.
[Dang, I heard about this. Lewis went home this morning and got beaten up by his dad. He’s been in the hospital all morning. The others are hiding, afraid to go back.]
[Just a lunatic looking for trouble everywhere. He’s lurking around all the major clubs, and once he stays, he certainly finds someone.]
[I nearly ran into him today, but luckily the waiter informed me early, so I snuck out through the back door.]
[What’s the background of that bastard? He’s so lawless. Have you guys found any info on him?]
[From out of the province, he calls himself the Northwest Master. I especially asked friends from Northwest to check him out, he’s nothing but a habitual offender, causing trouble everywhere, even the rich second generation in the Northwest fear him, like he’s a beast of flood. This guy is really despicable.]
[An outsider being this unruly?]
[Ethan Scott is having a really unlucky year. First, something happened at his grandpa’s birthday banquet, and now he’s entangled with such a troublemaker. It’s made us all worried too. Better cut ties and stay away early.]
[I heard he got beaten up in the hospital. Everyone knows it was that bastard from the Durant Family, yet there’s no evidence to be found, just have to endure in silence.]
[Dammit, I just heard, the Stone Clan had a business deal prepared for six months ruined by that punk from the Durant family. Rich and willful, can’t afford to provoke. Everyone, fend for yourselves—cut off ties with Ethan Scott, trouble reaching the family is no small matter.]
...
[Isn’t there anyone who can deal with that bastard?]
[No one has the ability. We’re just some uneducated spoiled heirs.]
[No one has the ability. +1]
[No one has the ability. +2]
[Can’t compete in assets, can’t beat him in fights, can’t outplay him in games. Do you know what my mom said? We can’t even compare as spoiled heirs, worse than useless.]
[Been stabbed in the back.]
[Been stabbed in the back. +1]
[Been stabbed in the back. +2]
...
[The people from Langley Residence, Ford Family, and Nogueira Family can face him head-on, the problem is, this bastard doesn’t provoke them.]
[Bullying the weak and fearing the strong.]
[Cowardly and unscrupulous.]
[Spitting steel while swallowing softness.]
[Despicable scoundrel.]
...
[I heard when he causes trouble, he’s fully equipped with a lawyer and a bodyguard. The lawyer ensures his actions don’t cross the line, within legal limits, while the bodyguard ensures his personal safety, preventing anyone desperate from resorting to violence against him.]
[凸(艹皿艹), so well-prepared, must have done these sorts of things a lot?]
[Professional villain.]
[Damn professional villain, it’s too disgusting.]
[Will the spoiled heirs have to develop professionally in the future?]
[Look at the spoiled heirs from outside the province, so competitive! So aware of safety! Compared to them, we’re nothing, just cannon fodder.]
...
[Forget it; we’re just making small blunders, while they specialize in this field. Better stay away from Ethan Scott, fend for yourselves.]
[Fend for yourselves. +1]
[Fend for yourselves. +2]
[Fend for yourselves. +3]
...
After the screen was flooded, many people voluntarily left the group.
???
Glenn Flynn was dumbfounded.
Their spoiled heir circle actually has a food chain... spoiled heirs bullying other spoiled heirs?
It’s quite funny to say.
An outsider’s spoiled heir rampaging in Fenton City, making a bunch of spoiled heirs tremble, it really is a spectacle. Probably all the major upscale clubs will be slow in business for a while.
However——
The Northwest Master they mentioned, is he the guy who stood up for Nora Scott in the tavern that day?
If so...
There’s nothing to worry about for Nora Scott.
Even if Nora Scott gets involved, she probably has the ability to protect herself.
"Mr. Flynn——"
Oliver Scott’s voice came from the front.
Glenn Flynn came back to his senses, left the gossip temporary group, and then put down his phone.
"Coming."
He responded, and stepped forward towards the two.
*
Benjamin Durant’s actions of "punishing evil and promoting good" against various idle spoiled heirs in Fenton City spread like wildfire.
Those spoiled heirs with a clear self-definition and acquainted with Ethan Scott all consciously stayed indoors, not going out to provoke this jinx.
In secret, they cursed the Durant Family ancestors up and down.
Dammit, how much sin and lack of virtue did the Durant Family commit to give birth to such a troublemaking bastard?
In ancient feudal societies, there was only the idea of "implicating nine generations," but this bastard even drags out innocent groups like friends who have nothing to do with them for targeting... this bastard is so damn unreasonable!
Everyone’s grumbling.
But, helplessly.
The collective finally couldn’t hold it in any longer and organized a group to curse Ethan Scott—
Why on earth would you provoke some spoiled heir from out of state?
Now every spoiled heir in town is on edge, suffering along with you!
...
Meanwhile, Ethan Scott, who was still in the hospital, sneezed non-stop every day, unaware that he had long been blacklisted by Fenton City’s spoiled heirs.
*
Nora Scott originally thought that the issue of the golden cup being swapped and Evelyn Winter being forced to take the blame would be difficult to resolve.
Unexpectedly, Boss Alex sent her a list of staff the very next day.
The number was astonishingly large.
She asked someone to investigate each one of them, and the feedback was that it would take at least half a month to go through every person.
Furthermore, trying to find any trace of a clue from such a large group was incredibly difficult.
Nora Scott could only ask them to do their best.
Unexpectedly, the matter found resolution through another event—
Friday, afternoon.
Henry Chapman took some time to come to Cloudwater Haven to give Nora Scott an acting lesson—on performing crying scenes.
Nora Scott wasn’t naturally inclined to cry, never liked to since she was a child. Her tears were as precious as mermaid tears, making it torture for her to act in crying scenes. Every time she shot a crying scene, she basically relied on external aids to succeed.
—So the final effect was always quite poor.
Nora Scott’s requirement for herself was that if she could squeeze out tears, it counted as success.
Henry Chapman watched her coldly for almost half an hour.
He taught her about the methods, the layers of crying, and different acting forms.
At first, when she couldn’t cry, Henry Chapman used onions to make her tear up while she "cried" and "attended the lesson." He demonstrated different crying scenes and required Nora Scott to perform on the spot.
By the end of the afternoon, Nora Scott felt no emotion inside, but her eyes, being irritated, were streaming with tears, leaving them red and swollen.
That was when Humphrey Jennings’s video call came in.
She didn’t really want to answer, but, given their acquaintance, Nora Scott didn’t bother to put up her Northwest Master persona and connected the video call directly.
"What’s up?"
She asked while wiping her eyes with a tissue.
"You—" Humphrey Jennings was instantly shocked, his expression plummeting visibly, a dark air swirling around his brows, his tone biting with danger and force, "Who the hell bullied you?"
"Practicing acting," Nora Scott replied blandly, her voice slightly hoarse, "Crying scenes."
"..."
Looking at Nora Scott in the video, Humphrey Jennings was stunned for quite some time.
Her eyes were red and swollen, the rims of her eyes were rimmed with red, her black pupils were moist, and her slender eyelashes were wet, seeing this could break one’s heart.
—He had never seen Nora Scott this way.
Still not convinced, Humphrey Jennings frowned tightly, "Can you really end up crying like this just from practicing a crying scene?"
"Wiped with onion juice."
Nora Scott briefly explained, then couldn’t help but ’hiss’ in pain as tears welled up again.
She turned to look at Henry Chapman, "Why does it hurt more the more I wipe?"
"No common sense?" Henry Chapman remained unmoved by her teary eyes, showing not an ounce of sympathy, "Wash it first."
"..."
Taking a deep breath, Nora Scott suppressed her temper and told Humphrey Jennings to ’wait a minute’, then went to the restroom.
After a long while, she finally returned, her eyes were even redder, but the burning pain had subsided, and her tears had finally stopped.
But—
The beautiful woman who had just cried, with red-rimmed eyes and slightly damp hair, was irresistible to any man, except for a monster like Henry Chapman who could ignore it.
As soon as Nora Scott picked up the phone and glanced at the video, Humphrey Jennings ended the call without a word.
Nora Scott: "..."
*
On the other side.
Humphrey Jennings, after hanging up, smoked two cigarettes on the balcony before calming down and returning to the living room.
"Did you talk?"
Benjamin Durant came out of the bedroom, playing a mobile game while asking Humphrey Jennings casually.
Taking a deep breath, Humphrey Jennings picked up his phone again, "I’ll talk now."
"..."
Weren’t you just on the phone?
Benjamin Durant looked up, full of confusion.
Humphrey Jennings dialed another call, this time it wasn’t a video call, just a voice call.
After the call connected, Nora Scott inexplicably asked, "What happened just now?"
Humphrey Jennings glanced at Benjamin Durant, who was engrossed in his game, and with a straight face passed the buck.
"Benjamin Durant wanted to discuss something with me."
Benjamin Durant: ???
Since when did I need to talk to him?
"Oh." Nora Scott didn’t ask further, shifting the topic to business, "What do you need to say?"
"There are leads on the person targeting Miguel Smith and Henry Chapman," Humphrey Jennings said, "and some other findings too."