Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu
Chapter 1005 - 1005: 10% progress

"Thank you so much, Miss. Ren! I am so much more confident now. Your plans are amazing," her aura emanated a cheerful light.

Alix smiled. "Of course, it's my pleasure. Oh, excuse me. I will just head to the washroom."

Jin glanced at Yuze on the other side with whom he seemed to be discussing his own plans with Mui. Yes, a little bit of tardiness but she had finally arrived to organize her own plans.

The fashion show is the last thing he must be talking about with her.

Jin held a burning curiosity to sneak in their conversation but it was a relatively open space. There was no place to hide or peek from.

"Where are you burning holes into?"

He looked at Alix behind him and asked, "Are you feeling okay?"

She blinked twice. "Why do you ask?"

"I just felt you took a little longer than necessary…Nevermind it," he coughed awkwardly.

Jin saw her glance away as if slipping into some sort of a confused trance. "Alix?"

"Why…why did you ask if I was feeling okay?"

"Huh? Like I said, nevermind it."

"It's strange. I was just in the washroom. I didn't even look sick. I am not sick."

"No, I…know that."

"So why the concern?"

"Look, if you think that I am stalking your private time then-"

"Earlier also, you didn't have to really…"

"Didn't have to what?"

"I didn't mind whose hands she shook first."

Jin expressed his puzzlement at first but realized a second later that she was talking about his insistence on Wang Xia's greeting.

"You didn't mind it but I did. Recognition should be given where it is due. Right recognition to the right person. But well," he threw a look at Wang Xia from a distance and sneered. "Like father, like daughter."

He looked back at her. "Are you satisfied with my answers, Miss. Ren?"

He still saw confusion float around in her gaze but overall, her demeanor hadn't changed much.

Alix slightly forward and whispered in his ear. "I was just executing a part of my plan."

T-That was quite…abrupt change in the topic? Jin wondered.

He arched his brow. "I see. Did you get success?"

Now he saw her coming back to her usual zone. "Tch. I am only ten percent there and I don't have much time."

Lines of frustration creased on her forehead.

"Why are people so stubborn? Stubborn for the wrong reason?"

"Either they are too overconfident or too timid to change," he said as he shrugged.

"This is the case of too timidness," she said.

"I think you are lacking in the right motivation part."

Alix looked dumbfounded. "What else in the world could be a sparkling and shining motivation than what I have planned?"

Jin smiled. "Sometimes, people need very simple things in life."

"Simple is boring."

"Yet very satisfying at times."

She folded her arms, her gaze staring at him with a glint of challenge in it.

"How about you try it out with your 'simplicity' theory?"

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"You just want them to apologize to you, right?"

At the far end of the parking zone where Jin brought his car to a stop, a woman was seated at the back side along with Alix. Her expression looked haggard as if she had lost her vitality ages ago. Her cheeks were slightly shrunken, showing her slightly older than her age.

Wang Ningli stared at the duo before her without any lackluster in her eyes.

"I don't understand."

"You want your husband and in-laws to apologize to you. Right?"

"You say impossible things."

"Doesn't mean that you don't think about those impossible things."

"Hold up," Alix raised her hand. "I don't follow any of you. Why does she need an apology?"

"Because her in-laws treated her like dirt and her husband cheated on her?" Jin stated the obvious.

She returned an equally obvious look. "Isn't it why I am offering her a chance to take her revenge from them duh?"

"That wouldn't give her an apology."

"Why does she need an apology in the first place?" She gasped in shock. "Wait."

She looked at Wang Ningli. "Why do you need an apology when you can take your revenge from the pricks? I mean, you just need a large tub of popcorn in your hands and enjoy the show. Who cares about an apology? As if their apology would mean anything anyway. Violence! Choose violence!"

Wang Ningli didn't respond.

Jin said, "I don't think she cares if they apologize from their heart or not. She simply wants to hear them say sorry. For all that she has put up with while living with such a family, she got betrayal and disrespect in return. A lot of it. So she wants them to apologize for all the time and energy and emotions she wasted on them."

"Are you a mind-reader? How do you know this?"

"Revenge is glorious and all I concur, but admitting to your mistakes and apologizing for them is way more mortifying. Especially for people like Wang Tianhui and his family who introduced her as Wang Xia's assistant. Imagine bowing your head to a person who you treated as a servant all this time."

"That is indeed tempting but my revenge plan is super awesome too! Don't you want them to go down? You are wronged so of course you should take revenge. Just make people bleed left, right and center!"

Alix simply couldn't fathom Wang Ningli's thought process.

Jin said, "And that is why you are still at 10% progress."

"..."

"Do you think an apology wouldn't bleed them out?"

"It doesn't sound so fancy."

He snorted. "It's because you haven't seen first hand what an apology can do to egoistic people. Words are more lethal than a sword."

"Don't insult me."

"How is this an insult?"

I was an editor in the past so don't you talk about words with me. I feel targeted, she thought.

Alix grimaced. "How am I supposed to add their apology in my revenge equation anyway?"

Jin ignored her mumbling and looked at Wang Ningli.

"If we assure you that we will make your husband and in-laws apologize to you, then will you agree?"

Wang Ningli clasped her hands together and exhaled a long, quiet breath.

"Yes."