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Chapter 1299 ends, back to normal.

Lin Hao didn't say a word, just stared at Shen Man, and Shen Man felt a chill run down her spine from Lin Hao's gaze.

Seeing that Lin Hao wasn't buying it, Shen Man said somewhat helplessly:
"Lin Hao, we don't really need to go this far. As long as you sign this property transfer agreement, I can pretend nothing happened, and you can leave with a sum of money."

Lin Hao was placed on a chair with his hands tied. To prevent him from breaking free, HIA specifically arranged for someone to guard the door.

Upon hearing this, Lin Hao showed no fear on his face, but instead revealed a playful smile, leaning forward slightly as his gaze swept over Shen Man.

"Manman, you want my money that badly? How about we try a different approach? You and Jane together..."

"That would have a unique charm," Lin Hao said flippantly, openly flirting.

Shen Man's face darkened, and her feigned composure crumbled instantly.
"Lin Hao! Don't push your luck! I don't have time to argue with you!"

She slammed the documents on the table and shouted angrily, "If you don't sign, don't blame me for being impolite!"

"You're welcome?" Lin Hao chuckled, leaning back and teasingly remarking in a relaxed manner.
"How exactly are you being impolite? Are you going to find someone else to impersonate my wife and torture me together?"

"Or... kill me?" Lin Hao shook his head indifferently, his tone laced with sarcasm.

"If I die, won't you get nothing? Director Shen, this script isn't very good."

Seeing that he wouldn't budge no matter what she said, a fierce glint flashed in Shen Man's eyes, and she gave a wink to the door.

Soon, a "doctor" wearing a white coat and a mask walked in, pushing a cart with various terrifying instruments on it.

“Mr. Lin!” the doctor’s voice said, devoid of any emotion or threat.
“If you continue to resist, we will have no choice but to take some… necessary coercive measures.”

"For example, minimally invasive surgery on the prefrontal cortex. This part of the brain is very interesting because it determines a person's cognitive and decision-making functions!"

"Removal may cause dementia, but it won't kill you. You won't have any more worries in the future. It can effectively treat your mental illness, and you will live a simpler and happier life."

He picked up a gleaming, probe-like instrument and began setting up the surgical equipment on Lin Hao's forehead.

Lin Hao's pupils contracted slightly, and a look of fear appeared on his face at the opportune moment, his body tensing up slightly as well.

Seeing this, Shen Man sneered inwardly, thinking that he was finally scared.

However, when Lin Hao spoke, his tone was nonchalant:

"Removing the frontal lobe? That sounds like high-tech, but doctor, are you sure this crappy place, and that thing in your hand, is suitable for this kind of surgery?"

He then gestured with his chin to the doctor's surgical instruments and said:

"Where's the skull drill? The milling cutter, the wire saw? And the meningioma dissector, the periosteal elevator, and those?"

"Since it's a brain surgery, at least prepare all the necessary instruments. Who are you trying to scare by just holding a small scalpel?"

"By the way, you didn't even prepare disinfectant?"

"I don't want to get tetanus or some strange infection just from signing a document. Are you sure you have a medical license?"

"You...!" Shen Man trembled with anger. Besides being angry at her own inadequate preparation, she was also surprised that Lin Hao knew so much, even what instruments were needed for craniotomy.

Seeing Lin Hao's arrogant demeanor, Shen Man was furious and angrily shouted at the doctor, "Teach him a lesson!"

The "doctor" stepped forward, as if about to make a move.

"If I die, are you sure you can still get my assets?" Lin Hao's face showed no fear, but instead a cold sarcasm.

"Shen Man, you dare touch me? If you dare to lay a finger on me, I guarantee you and all your actors will spend the rest of your lives working sewing machines in prison! You won't get anything!"

His confident and all-knowing demeanor thoroughly enraged Shen Man.

"Sister Man! Stop!" Just as she was on the verge of losing control and about to order the torture without regard for anything else, Jane's voice suddenly came from the doorway.

She was out of breath, clearly having rushed there, but when she tried to rush in, she was stopped by the people at the door.

"Sister Man! Wake up! I already know that the person under the lighthouse is a mannequin, it's not Mu Zi at all!"
"Whether it was you or someone else who put it there, you can't keep making the same mistake!" Jane shouted urgently, hoping to wake Shen Man up.

However, Jane's arrival and cries did not bring Shen Man to her senses. Instead, the news Jane brought was like a fire that ignited the fuse of her final madness.

Looking at Jane's face, which was filled with worry and pleading, and then at Lin Hao, who was unyielding to reason, Shen Man instantly conceived an even more vicious plan.

"Arrest her!" Shen Man pointed at Jane and ordered Zheng Cheng.

Zheng Cheng hesitated for a moment and did not take any action, because he also felt that something was wrong with Shen Man.

Zheng Cheng's inaction did not mean that others had no ideas; another foreigner in the crew subdued Jane.

"Shen Man, how could you do this!" Jane was stunned to see Shen Man so disregarding their relationship and actually using her to threaten Lin Hao. She questioned Shen Man in disbelief.

"What can I do?" Shen Man glared at Jane, then said resentfully, "If you had helped me, things wouldn't have come to this!"

"Lin Hao!" Shen Man turned her head and said with a wild, triumphant look on her face:

"It seems you care about her a lot? Sign the papers and I'll let you leave. Don't sign...!"

She picked up a scalpel from the table, slowly approached the restrained Jane, and then said to Lin Hao:

"I'll leave a memento on her beautiful face right in front of you. I mean it!"

Lin Hao looked at the knife tip pressed against Jane's cheek, and then at Jane's fearful yet still gazing at him. His nonchalant and mocking expression slowly faded.

Lin Hao remained silent for a long time, as if he were having a fierce internal struggle.

Finally, as if all his strength had been drained away, or as if he had given in, he sighed and said, "Fine, let her go, I'll sign!"

Shen Man's eyes blazed with ecstatic joy.

“However,” Lin Hao stared at her, and then added:
“I need to make sure Jane and I can leave safely. And this is only a partial transfer of assets, not all of them. That’s my bottom line.”

Under Jane's threat to his life, Lin Hao was forced to pick up a pen and slowly sign his name on the "negotiated" document.

Shen Man snatched the document, looked at the signature on it, and let out a near-manic laugh.

Lin Hao, expressionless, watched the nearly frantic Shen Man and shielded Jane behind him.

At this moment, Shen Man tightly gripped the property transfer document that had just been signed.

The touch of the paper brought an almost thrilling pleasure, like an electric current coursing through her limbs.

A fortune of hundreds of millions, within reach! A twisted smile, a mixture of ecstasy, successful revenge, and immense ambition, uncontrollably spread across her face.

Then, looking at Lin Hao, her voice slightly hoarse with excitement, she said, "It's over, Lin Hao, it's all over!"

At the pinnacle of this "victory," a soft yet crystal-clear voice, like a thunderclap, resounded in everyone's ears.

The door to the medical room was opened from the outside, followed by a clear female voice:

"Manman, what's over?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Man was struck dumb, as if time had frozen. The smile on Shen Man's face instantly froze, like plaster that had been frozen solid.

She turned her head sharply, her pupils contracting rapidly, and looked incredulously at the source of the sound.

"Mu, Mu Zi!"

Wearing a simple white dress, she stood there with a complicated expression, her gaze fixed on Shen Man and the incredibly glaring document in her hand.

"Mu...Muzi?!" Shen Man's voice shrilly changed tone, her mind went blank, and a huge sense of absurdity and fear gripped her.

"You...you're not dead?! Impossible! I clearly...I clearly saw it with my own eyes...!" She subconsciously looked at Lin Hao, then remembered Jane's words from earlier.

"Fake? The corpse was fake? So Jane was telling the truth!" Then she looked at the living Li Muzi, her worldview collapsing in an instant, and she became incoherent.

Jane, standing to the side, was struck dumb. She looked at the real Li Muzi who had suddenly appeared, and all color drained from her face.

A profound sense of shame made her wish she could disappear into the ground.

She had been entangled with Lin Hao as a "fake wife," but now, facing the real person, she was overwhelmed by guilt and embarrassment. She subconsciously lowered her head, not daring to meet Li Muzi's gaze.

Lin Hao remained the calmest person in the room. He even gently straightened his collar, which had become slightly disheveled from the struggle.

The look in his eyes as he looked at Li Muzi held a smile that only the two of them could understand.

Li Muzi ignored Shen Man's shock. She walked steadily closer, her eyes fixed on the documents in Shen Man's hands.

Her gaze shifted from initial confusion to gradual understanding, and finally to a look of disappointment.

“Manman,” Li Muzi’s voice was soft, yet it was like an ice pick piercing Shen Man’s heart, “Tell me, what are you holding in your hand?”

Shen Man reacted as if burned, abruptly hiding the documents behind her back, forcing a smile that looked more like a grimace:

"Mu Zi...you, you're alright, that's great! This...this is...this is Lin Hao..." She tried to explain, but her explanation was full of holes.

"It's for my 'legacy,' isn't it?" Li Muzi interrupted her, the last trace of warmth in her eyes vanishing.

"After my 'death,' the first thing they did was try every possible means, even resorting to such methods, to get their hands on it?"

These words, like the final boulder, completely crushed Shen Man.

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out. Li Muzi's disappointed eyes were more damaging than any accusation.

All her self-justifications seemed so ugly and unbearable in the face of the living, breathing Li Muzi.

At this moment, Lin Hao stepped forward, stood next to Li Muzi, and naturally put his arm around her shoulder.

"Now, do you understand, Mu Zi?" Lin Hao asked, his voice calm and even.

"People change eventually. She may have been grateful to you for saving her. You also firmly believed that she was the most innocent and trustworthy best friend you could entrust your life to."

His gaze shifted to Shen Man, whose face was ashen, and he spoke to her with eyes as sharp as knives:

"You always tell her that I have ulterior motives towards her and that my marriage to Mu Zi is for my own purposes. Although she never believes it, I still have to be careful!"

"As our ancestors wisely said, 'Many voices can melt metal, and accumulated slander can destroy bones,'" Lin Hao said calmly.

"No matter how deep our friendship is, it can't withstand your provocations for so long!"

"Of course, I didn't say anything good about you in front of Mu Zi either. I told Mu Zi long ago that your feelings for her were not pure. Just like when you spoke ill of me, Mu Zi never believed it."

“We argued about this that day. I told Mu Zi that your feelings towards her were more like a shift from gratitude to another extreme, called ‘a little kindness is appreciated, but too much kindness breeds resentment.’ You were jealous that Mu Zi had everything you desired.”

"But Mu Zi believes in you just as much as she believes in me!" Lin Hao sneered as he said this, then, seeing Shen Man's deathly pale face, he continued:
"We co-directed this play so that she could see for herself whether this so-called friendship would choose sincerity or ambition in the face of billions of dollars."

"I'm sorry, Shen Man!" Lin Hao's voice was devoid of any emotion, merely stating a fact:
"Your answer sheet proves my judgment. After confirming Mu Zi's death, you didn't think about finding the real culprit or seeking justice for her, but rather how to take everything that belonged to her for yourself."

The truth, like the cruelest punishment, stripped Shen Man of all her last shred of dignity.

She collapsed, her eyes vacant, making meaningless hoarse sounds, completely broken down.

She lost. She lost her friendship, her integrity, and everything she wanted.

Mu Zi is not dead at all. The property transfer signed by Lin Hao is just a piece of paper and has no meaning whatsoever.

Looking at her distraught best friend, Li Muzi's eyes flashed with a hint of pain, but more so with a resolute clarity.

She whispered to Shen Man, as if she were saying to herself, "Manman, let's end our friendship here."

However, Shen Man still didn't give up the struggle. A brilliant idea flashed through her mind, and she said confidently:
"Don't you find it interesting that you take a hypothetical question and ask for a correct answer, and naturally you won't get a correct answer?"

"You're testing me, so how can you be sure Lin Hao is sincere towards you?"

This time, without waiting for Lin Hao to speak, Li Muzi sighed and said:
"Shen Man, don't you know that after I married Lin Hao, he started managing the company?"

"If Lin Hao wants money, there are countless ways to legally and legitimately transfer funds."

"But not only did he not do such a thing, under his management, the company's size expanded from over 100 million to over 1 billion, more than ten times!"

Li Muzi didn't continue speaking, but her meaning was clear: Lin Hao had enough talent to make the company bigger and stronger, and didn't need to resort to any underhanded tactics.

Although it was only a month ago that he began to substantively manage the company, the fact that he was able to develop a company into a scale of more than 3 billion in just one month demonstrates his remarkable talent.

How could someone possibly have such despicable thoughts as Shen Man!

Then Li Muzi turned to Lin Hao and glanced at Jane, who was sitting next to her, looking anxious and almost curled up in a ball.

He then sighed softly, but ultimately said nothing. He knew that he couldn't control a man as outstanding as Lin Hao on his own.

Li Muzi glanced at the ashamed Jane, then reached out and took her hand, saying, "Come with us!"

"Ah~!" Jane looked at Li Muzi in surprise, then looked to Lin Hao for help.

"Let's go, wife!" His voice returned to its usual gentle tone, but with a hint of regret as he said, "The game is over."

Then Lin Hao put his arm around Li Muzi and held Jane's hand with his other hand, and walked out of the warehouse.

Sunlight streamed in through the doorway, outlining their figures nestled together.

For the next year, Lin Hao spent time with Li Muzi and Jane, living a shameless life together.

As for Shen Man, Lin Hao had no intention of taking revenge on her. In fact, the reason she did such an extreme thing was mainly due to Lin Hao's secret instigation.

Therefore, Lin Hao naturally wouldn't go so far as to kill them all; in fact, six months later, he took the initiative to reconcile them.

Of course, their friendship after making up was just a facade; they mainly relied on each other to fill in when Li Muzi and Jane were playing cards and needed one more player.

After playing in this world for a year and a half, Lin Hao had had enough and naturally prepared to return.

"System, return!"