"Miss, it's all my fault." Boss Guo immediately slapped himself across the face. "That's right, it's all our fault." Boss Zhou chimed in. When apologizing, one had to show the right attitude. "Yes, yes, yes. We just thought you were breaking the rules of our trade and wanted to scare you a bit, purely with empty threats. We never imagined they'd actually steal something so valuable from you. That was our mistake. Please forgive us, miss." "I'm actually a bit curious. Now you come begging for my forgiveness, but did you ever think about letting me off? If I didn't have someone backing me up, if I were just an ordinary young girl, would you have let me go?" "We never intended to do anything to you. The four of us combined are hundreds of years old—how could we gang up to bully a young girl? Where's our dignity?" Boss Zhou trailed off as he spoke. He felt pretty embarrassed about it. Boss Guo quickly added, "We really just wanted to scare you. We never meant to harm you." "But you sent six big men to my house. I'm as beautiful as a flower—can you guarantee they wouldn't have had any wicked thoughts when they saw me?" The men fell silent, at a loss for words. "Enough. Don't bring this up again. You want me to write a letter of understanding? No way! You've already bullied me right into my own home, and now you expect me to write a letter of understanding? Isn't that just blatant bullying?" "Miss, this was truly our fault. We were blinded by greed. We'll kneel for you. I have an eighty-year-old mother at home and a hungry child to feed—I can't afford to get into trouble. If something happens to me, my whole family won't survive." Boss Zhou went straight to playing the victim, his lines so half-hearted. "Same here. My wife has a tumor and is undergoing chemotherapy—it costs a lot of money. The reason we've been so ruthless this year is that we're strapped for cash and trying to earn more." Shen Yunyun thought to herself that Boss Guo was really ruthless, even cursing his own wife. But she wasn't about to fall for their moral blackmail. "What does your elderly mother have to do with you sending people to attack my home? And you—didn't your wife pass away last year? How is she still in treatment? Oh, so you're both trying to guilt-trip me? Was offending me once not enough? Do you want to offend me a second time?" The men had assumed Shen Yunyun was just a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old girl, soft-hearted and easy to fool with a few words. Who knew kids these days weren't so easy to trick? Playing the victim hadn't worked; instead, they'd only offended her further. What were they supposed to do now? Just then, Liao Zhen arrived. He saw the bosses and, with a dark look, whispered to Shen Yunyun, "Boss, we can't afford to completely alienate all these people." Shen Yunyun glanced at him in surprise, then at the bosses. "Have a seat. We need to discuss something." The bosses were just thinking about their next move, so this gave them some space. Boss Guo quickly said, "Go ahead, go ahead." Shen Yunyun and Liao Zhen went to the backyard, making sure no one was eavesdropping before she let him speak. Liao Zhen said, "Boss, we can't completely offend all these people." Shen Yunyun was a bit annoyed. "They've already bullied me right into my home, and I can't even defend my legal rights? If the police hadn't arrived quickly, who knows what might have happened? These criminals, and the ones who incited them, deserve to face the law. Why can't I offend them? They offended me first."