Chapter 27: The Tide Has Turned

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“I have no idea.” Gu Yin pressed down the smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. He did not need any instruction from the policewoman at all; waving his hands, he continued to play dumb.

“I was following the car so closely, and the traffic around there was so congested. I was paying attention to the road—how could I have seen her get out of the car?”

“All I saw was the car in front suddenly stop for no apparent reason. So I got out to see what was going on…”

Gu Yin pointed toward the footage showing him getting out of the car and continued:

“I was going to ask what was wrong and why the car had suddenly stopped. But when I walked over and saw there was no one inside, it scared the hell out of me. I even thought the car was haunted…”

The moment he said “haunted”—

“Pfft…”

Several of the officers at the scene nearly burst out laughing. Even the stern expression on the policewoman Su Nuan’s face almost cracked at Gu Yin’s words.

“Who in their right mind gets out of a car without turning off the engine and just walks away?”

Completely oblivious, Gu Yin continued:

“And who would’ve thought anyone could be stupid enough to leave their car in the middle of the road without even turning off the engine?”

“I looked around, but I couldn’t find the owner anywhere. I figured the car couldn’t just be left there in the middle of the road, right?”

“What if some thief came along and stole it?”

“So I drove it over to our police station!”

As soon as he finished speaking—

[Pfft…]

[Hahahaha…]

The people at the scene were struggling desperately to hold back their laughter, but the viewers in the neighboring livestream absolutely could not contain themselves!

[I’m dying… Was he serious about the car being haunted? Hahaha!]

[He’s insulting her by implication. Is that really any different from cursing her outright?]

[He keeps hammering on the slippers and the engine not being turned off. No one can do a thing to Coach Gu, hahaha!]

…

This whole “playing dumb” routine…

Sometimes, it was genuinely useful.

The saying went that one should never let up when one had the upper hand. Qin Ou, the female Cadillac driver, had simply been too foolish. Her actions were riddled with holes, giving Gu Yin far too many points to attack.

Whether it was driving in slippers or leaving the engine running, there was no way she could refute either point.

“You… you!”

See?

Qin Ou was now pointing at Gu Yin, her face flushed with anger, yet she could not manage to produce a single rebuttal.

It was worth mentioning that…

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At the entrance to the police station, one of the onlookers suddenly called out:

“Officer, I can testify! I was right behind that handsome guy just now. There really was no one in the car!”

The moment he said this—

[Hahahaha…]

Many viewers watching Reconcile with Life burst out laughing.

To be fair, the drivers of the several cars behind Gu Yin had practically all seen Qin Ou get out of the vehicle. That man was blatantly lying through his teeth with his eyes wide open.

But the fact that people were willing to join Gu Yin in lying so shamelessly—didn’t that prove just how thoroughly Qin Ou had enraged the crowd?

Su Nuan restrained the smile at the corners of her mouth and spoke frankly to Qin Ou:

“You heard him. He said that when he tried to contact you, you were nowhere to be found. Your car was left in the middle of the road with the engine running, so he was worried it might be stolen and drove it to our police station…”

“That counts as returning lost property without seeking a reward.”

“You, at most, are here to reclaim your own car.”

“Then… should I be thanking him?” Qin Ou’s lips twitched violently.

“That’s up to you,” Su Nuan replied.

“I…”

Qin Ou was completely dumbfounded.

No, wait. How had things gotten to this point? Not only were the police refusing to arrest Gu Yin and put silver bracelets on him, they were actually telling her to…

Thank him?

Thank him for stealing her car, making her run all that way with her elderly son until one of her slippers came off?

Thank him for getting her drenched in spit from all those angry drivers, and making her humiliate herself in front of so many people?

“Whew… whew…”

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Qin Ou’s chest heaved violently. Gritting her teeth, she went completely red with rage.

“He…”

She raised a finger again and pointed at Gu Yin, clearly intending to start playing dumb once more.

But just then—

Her middle-school-aged son, who had followed her the entire time without saying a word, suddenly tugged lightly at her clothes.

When Qin Ou turned around, she saw her son standing there in his blue-and-white middle school uniform. In a tone that clearly said he was embarrassed by her, he said:

“Mom, that’s enough. Our car wasn’t stolen…”

“We were the ones in the wrong in the first place.”

At those words—

“…”

Quite a few people at the scene fell silent.

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Qin Ou’s son was a middle school student. Judging by his appearance, he had not yet entered puberty and was probably in his first or second year of middle school, around thirteen or fourteen years old.

At that age, his understanding of traffic laws probably went no further than traffic lights and zebra crossings. He was not even old enough to learn to drive.

Yet even he knew that his mother had been in the wrong—that she was the one who had parked in the middle of a three-lane road and blocked traffic along the entire street.

And this mother…

Had not set even the slightest example worth following for her son, who was about to enter adolescence.

People could not help wondering: Did a mother like that really deserve such a good son?

“Son, you…”

Qin Ou was stunned. Clearly, she had never expected her own son to say something like that.

But to be honest, her son really was much smarter than she was.

At the very least, the boy knew when to stop. He understood that their car had not been lost and that they had suffered no real loss.

If things continued, Gu Yin might indeed bear some responsibility. But with his own mother’s list of “offenses”—parking in the middle of a three-lane road and blocking an entire street, driving in slippers, getting out without turning off the engine, and so on—she would certainly be facing penalty points and a fine as well.

If they kept making a scene, no one would come out of it well.

[Even a child understands better than she does. Tsk, tsk…]

It was not only the viewers who could no longer stand watching. Some of the onlookers at the scene had had enough as well.

Someone shouted:

“You blocked the road and jammed up an entire street, and you still think you’re in the right?”

“How do you even have the nerve to keep making a fuss? Have you no shame?”

“He drove your car away and at least saved you from getting penalty points and a fine. You really ought to thank him!”

…

The onlookers enjoyed a spectacle, but they were not fools. Everyone had a scale in their heart and could tell right from wrong, good from evil.

Besides, Su Nuan had just explained the entire situation clearly to everyone. Some of the people gathered outside had even been among the drivers trapped in the traffic jam. How could they not say a few words in Gu Yin’s defense?

By then, the situation at the scene had already become completely one-sided.

Qin Ou, the female Cadillac driver, had lost all momentum.

“Tsk, tsk…”

It was worth mentioning that Mengmeng, who had been standing beside Xia Qianyi, could not help clicking her tongue in secret. She looked at Gu Yin several times with open admiration.

When Gu Yin had driven away the Cadillac that was blocking the road, she had assumed he had acted on impulse simply to vent his anger, without considering the consequences at all.

She never would have imagined that the boy would come up with so many reasons, so many excuses, and so many shameless explanations!

It was truly admirable—and utterly exasperating.