Chapter 58: A Painful Lesson

  Liu Siyuan felt a surge of violent anger rising in his chest, and with a sudden movement, he punched the man's temple, sending him crashing to the ground. He didn't stop there, but continued to viciously kick the man several times, watching as he rolled around on the ground, unable to get up for the time being. Then, he rushed towards Wei Danyan.

  "Hey... hey, what are you doing?! You... do you know who I am?!!!" Wei Danyan was completely intimidated by the murderous aura emitted by Liu and Zheng, and he ran away while shouting.

  How could he, with his big belly, not see his own feet? He was caught by Liu Siyuan in just a few moves and pressed to the ground, receiving a barrage of punches. Every punch landed on flesh, even Zheng Gaofeng looked on in surprise, this kid is too ruthless.

  Manager Zhao reacted quickly, using the internal phone to call security early on. Before long, several security guards rushed in, shouting who dared to make trouble here. As soon as they saw Liu Siyuan and Zheng Gaofeng, they immediately shut up. They stood there stupidly, watching with their eyes wide open as Liu Siyuan beat Wei Dayan severely.

  Manager Zhao hurriedly urged, "Quickly go and stop that madman, what are you doing standing here?" The security captain hesitated for a long time before suddenly saying, "This gentleman, I think they're just fooling around, it's no big deal." Manager Zhao was so angry he almost spat out blood, this is too much, they've been beaten to a pulp and lost control of their bladder, and you say they're just fooling around?

  Finally, Ding Hui came to her senses and rushed over, trying to pull open Liu Siyuan's bloodshot eyes, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't budge him. In a panic, she shouted: "Siyuan, have you gone mad?!"

  In an instant, Liu Siyuan suddenly felt his whole body tremble, and the violent anger disappeared without a trace. He looked at Wei Danyan's face covered in blood and only then realized that he might have made a big mistake. For a while, he didn't know what to say, and he felt extremely uneasy about his unprovoked violent tendencies earlier. At the same time, he gradually became aware that it was that notebook again, just like when he had forcibly kissed Chen Jun. He had found it strange at the time, but the source of that sudden violent anger seemed to be that small black notebook.

  "Alright, it's all over, nothing to see here, you can all go back to what you were doing." Zheng Gaofeng stood up at this point, with a self-righteous expression, as if mediating the situation. Not even thinking about the fact that he still had half a beer bottle in his hand. The security guards surprisingly nodded in agreement, and really seemed like they were just going to let it go.

  "Ah!" The young man who was beaten to the ground by Liu Siyuan suddenly became furious, got up shaking and scolded: "You have the guts not to leave! I'm going to call the police! Do you know who you hit?! I'll tell you, you're dead for sure!"

  Zheng Gaofeng glanced at him with a look of disdain, and chuckled: "Call the police? Go ahead and call them, haha, it's just a deputy director of the Health Bureau."

  That young man was so angry that, in a fit of rage, he suddenly flew up and kicked Zheng Gaofeng's groin with one foot, while cursing loudly, "I'll kick your balls to pieces!" Zheng Gaofeng was caught off guard and almost got hit, but fortunately Liu Siyuan, who had been stunned earlier, reacted quickly and rushed over to knock the young man flying. Even so, it still scared the daylights out of our Master Zheng. When he came to his senses, his face turned ferocious, and he charged forward, giving the young man a severe beating. The latter refused to back down and fought back, and the two of them rolled around on the ground in a heap.

  This time is good, the security guards who were just slacking off suddenly moved, several people rushed up to mediate at the same time. However, what made Manager Zhao angry was that these guys seemed to be mediating at first glance, but in fact they were a group of people holding onto the young man, while no one took care of Zheng Gaofeng. As a result, the latter gave the young man a good beating.

  In the end, it was Liu Siyuan who ran over and pulled Zheng Gaofeng away, saying "stop, stop, if you keep fighting someone will get killed", which finally made him stop.

  Manager Zhao stared blankly at the two sanitation bureau officials who had just been beaten to a pulp, momentarily at a loss for what to do. It wasn't until Liu Siyuan spoke up and said "Call an ambulance" that Manager Zhao seemed to come back to himself. He then tried to help the two men to the door, but he was unable to move them on his own, especially Wei Danyan, who was as fat as a pig.

  In the end, Liu Siyuan gave a few security guards a signal, and several people dragged the two out like dead dogs.

  There were only three people left in the room, Zheng Gaofeng patted Liu Siyuan's shoulder and said I'll go back and tell Tianfang first, then walked out, leaving only Liu Siyuan and Ding Hui.

  "What's wrong with you today!" Ding Hui said with a scowl.

  Liu Siyuan originally had some guilt, feeling that things had gone a bit too far, but he didn't expect her to blame herself as soon as she opened her mouth. His anger rose and he immediately said: "Fine, if that dead fatty wants to take advantage of you, what's wrong with me beating him up?!"

  "Alas, what's wrong with you? They didn't do anything to me. Look at you, beating up a deputy director like this. Our company's big deal is definitely ruined!" Ding Hui said with a worried expression.

  "Come on, people are all stuck together and nothing's happening? Do they have to wait until he takes off his clothes? What about the big order? Can they sell their dignity for just one order?" Liu Siyuan was getting angrier by the minute!

  "Liu Siyuan! Tell me clearly, who betrayed us!" Ding Hui said angrily.

  Liu Siyuan was so angry that she felt a severe pain in her heart, and in a fit of rage, she flung out her hand and turned to run away.

  As soon as he returned to his own room, Hu Tian laughed and said: "Si Yuan, you're quite something, beating up a deputy department-level cadre!"

  Liu Siyuan hung his head and said: "Sorry, Hu, I'll take responsibility for my own actions and won't implicate you."

  "Haha, nonsense! Since it happened on my turf, how could I not intervene?! Besides, didn't you also save Gaofeng once? Otherwise, that kid would have been finished. Can he, just because of his surname Wei, drag me down? Ridiculous! Siyuan, you're looking down on me. Don't worry about anything, let's continue celebrating Lige's promotion, haha!" The people around also chimed in, saying things like "What the hell is wrong with this deputy director, daring to fight with our Little Liu over a woman? Has he gone blind?" and some even wanted to rush out and beat him up again to help Little Liu vent his anger.

  Li Zhexuan also said with a drunken tone: "Afraid of him? I'll call Vice Mayor Wang right now and have her discipline her Health Bureau."

  Liu Siyuan was a bit distracted afterwards, mainly because the dispute with Ding Hui made him very depressed. He had good intentions to help her, but ended up being blamed by her. In his heart, he was a little resentful of the laptop, what kind of stupid idea was this?

  However, there are gains and losses. Not long after, he received a call from Ouyang Qian. Her news was quite timely, and she already knew about the events that had just occurred. She said, "I didn't think you still had some blood in your veins. Considering you performed well this time, I, the young lady, will be generous and won't hold those past trivial matters against you."

  After Liu Siyuan hung up the phone, he thought for a moment and realized that she had thought that he had beaten Wei Chubby purely to avenge her, and it was possible that the person who told her about the situation had deliberately concealed Ding Hui's existence.

  In the following days he stayed at the Party School, but his heart was always hanging on this matter, and he didn't know if Wei would report to the police or take some retaliatory action.

  Fortunately, everything was calm for a few days until about a week later, he heard the news that the guy who tried to make Zheng Gaofeng cut off his offspring was criminally detained for three months due to drunk driving and assaulting police, and the Health Bureau announced the next day that he would be expelled from the party and removed from public office.

  Of course, this is just a superficial phenomenon. Listening to Zheng Gaofeng's phone call, that kid had a very colorful and rich life in prison. Liu Siyuan sighed, it seems that the consequences of trying to make the Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Hanjiang City and the Director of the Public Security Bureau cut off his son are quite serious.

  After a few more days, Wei Danyan was transferred to the Municipal Party Committee's Party History Office as its director. It is said that Minister Ouyang expressed at an Organization Department meeting that the Party History Office urgently needed cadres like Wei Danyan who were politically strong and experienced. Secretary Hu and Mayor Chen both agreed with this.

  From now on, Liu Siyuan also settled down and it seemed that someone above had helped him to turn things around. The only regret was Ding Hui's problem. After that incident, Ding Hui sent him a message, which roughly meant that she felt they came from two different worlds even more, so it was better to part ways early on.

  Liu Siyuan hesitated for a long time, thinking about whether to persuade her to stay or let her go. In the end, he didn't respond with a single word. It wasn't until much later, when he was alone in his room, that he would occasionally have an illusion that the innocent and lovely little girl from back then was still by his side.

  Of course, on another aspect, Liu Siyuan's phone calls every night were also non-stop. Ouyang Qian would call him from time to time, saying it was to report work, but in fact they chatted more about trivial matters. What she called reporting was actually what she did every day, especially liking to tell him how some young man was trying to curry favor with her.

  Chen Jun occasionally calls him, her voice is softer and more gentle, and the two chat more about some philosophical things in life. Finally, there's Fang Xinyi, who chats with him more about work, especially when it comes to official business.

  Time flies, three months passed in the blink of an eye. When Liu Siyuan graduated from the party school and returned to the inspection room, everyone's attitude towards him was polite but subtly estranged. He also understood that this moment had finally arrived, and everyone knew it - he too had reached the time to leave.