You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

The entire site was petrified.

This slap plunged the entire banquet hall into a deathly silence.

The air seemed to freeze, with countless flashes going off like crazy, the clicking sounds echoing as if trying to etch this astonishing scene into the film.

The reporters, who had been clinking glasses and exchanging toasts, suddenly became red-eyed, their cameras fixed on the center of the stage.

Wang Defa, the top philanthropist in Jiangcheng, founder of the Deshan Foundation, and a living bodhisattva...

He was slapped in public at his own charity gala, in front of all the city's celebrities!

This is absolutely the most explosive headline in Jiangcheng this year, no, in the last ten years!

Wang Defa covered his rapidly swelling left cheek, completely stunned.

The burning pain on his cheeks caused a crack to appear for the first time in his mask of compassionate smile, revealing the bewilderment and disbelief beneath.

He looked at Lin Chen as if he were looking at a madman.

Lin Chen didn't look at him again.

He took a tablet computer from the special police officer and, amidst the astonished and uncertain gazes of the crowd, calmly connected it to the huge LED display screen in the center of the banquet hall.

The screen lights up.

There were no touching charity promotional videos, nor any tear-jerking images of impoverished children.

What appeared was a stark white interrogation room.

The dwarf assassin A-Gui's ugly, distorted face was magnified in a close-up shot, taking up the entire screen and appearing particularly ferocious.

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything!"

"The underground wine cellar of the Xishan villa! There's a secret room there! Inside... inside it's full of his 'collection'!"

Ah Gui's inhuman, shrill roar, amplified by the top-of-the-line audio equipment, resonated clearly throughout every corner of the banquet hall as surround sound.

Screen switch.

The camera shakes violently; this is the first-person perspective of a body camera.

The SWAT team used a battering ram to smash open a wall disguised as a wine rack in the wine cellar, revealing a dark, secret room reeking of formaldehyde.

Rows of glass containers, like museum exhibits, are neatly arranged on the shelves.

Inside the container, human hearts of various shapes and sizes were soaking, along with human skin that had been made into exquisite butterfly specimens...

"vomit--"

A pampered lady in the audience could no longer hold back and bent over to dry heave.

Immediately following were the suppressed screams of terror that rose and fell in waves!

The image on the screen changed again.

In the abandoned chemical plant on the outskirts of the city, beneath the No. 3 incinerator, charred and mangled skeletons were carefully removed by forensic doctors from the excavated concrete floor.

Finally, the image freezes.

That was a PowerPoint presentation of a forensic medical report.

The cold text clearly states that the human finger bone DNA detected in the stomach contents of "Ahu," a Tibetan Mastiff owned by Mr. Wang Defa, matches 99.9% with that of the missing female college student, Lili.

The entire venue went from deathly silence to uproar, and then to utter panic.

Those celebrities and tycoons who had just been vying to chat and toast Wang Defa now retreated in fear, as if avoiding a plague, afraid of getting even the slightest bit involved.

The look in their eyes when they looked at Wang Defa was no longer one of worship and reverence, but rather one of intense disgust and fear.

On stage, Wang Defa stared intently at the lines of irrefutable evidence on the screen.

His once ruddy face lost all color at a visible speed, turning ashen.

His proudest perfect crime, his meticulously built philanthropic empire, the saintly aura he enjoyed for half his life...

At that moment, it was smashed to pieces by that young man in the most brutal, public, and humiliating way.

Lin Chen turned off the screen.

He walked over to Li Mingyu, who was still stunned, and took the cold handcuffs from his hand.

Then, he walked back to Wang Defa's noodle shop, leaned close to his ear, and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"Mr. Wang, I noticed that your collection seems to be missing a custom-made silver bracelet."

"Today, I'll give it to you."

Wang Defa trembled and suddenly raised his head, his cloudy eyes finally filled with fear.

"Snap!"

The cold handcuffs precisely locked his right wrist, which was adorned with a multi-million dollar watch.

Lin Chen patted Wang Defa's bloodless face, the force was light, but the insult was extremely strong.

"In your next life, be a human being."

Two special police officers stepped forward, one on each side, and dragged Wang Defa, whose legs had gone weak and who had completely collapsed, off the stage like a dead dog.

After a brief silence.

In the banquet hall, someone started clapping first.

The applause was initially hesitant, but it quickly grew from one to ten, then from ten to a hundred, eventually merging into a surging wave of sound that resounded throughout the entire venue!

This time, it's not a gift to a hypocritical "living Buddha," but to a hero who pulls the devil down from his pedestal!

Amid thunderous applause, Lin Chen stood alone under the spotlight, his expression calm.

He simply did what he felt he should do.

Below the stage, Su Qingge stared blankly at this scene.

Looking at that man who remained calm and composed under the spotlight.

Her heart, which was always as hard as an iceberg, seemed to have cracked.

Those usually clear and sharp phoenix eyes now reflected Lin Chen's figure, shimmering with an unprecedented light.

It was shock, it was admiration, or perhaps... a kind of flutter in her heart that she herself was unwilling to admit.

Just then, a heavenly system notification sounded in Lin Chen's mind.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, for successfully solving the "Jiangcheng Celebrity Dismemberment Case," arresting the mastermind Wang Defa, causing a huge social impact, and completely purifying the atmosphere of Jiangcheng!]

[Case Rating: S-Rank Perfect!]

[Rewards being processed...]

[Reward 1: 5 million RMB in cash (already transferred to the host's bank account; the source is absolutely legal, please feel free to spend it).]

[Reward Two: God-level Culinary Skills (including all eight major Chinese cuisines, medicinal cuisine, and exquisite knife skills).]

[Reward Three: God-level hacking skills (top-tier code control, a god in the cyber world).]

[Reward Four: God-like Insight (Extreme discernment, seeing through all disguises and details).]

[Reward 5: Charm +10 (significantly increases attractiveness to the opposite sex; exudes a refined and elegant aura).]

Lin Chen silently vowed, "Take them all!"

In an instant, an unimaginably vast flow of information flooded into his mind!

The textures of countless ingredients, the subtle changes in cooking temperature, and the knife skills as fine as a hair seem to have become his innate instincts.

What followed was an endless waterfall of code. The entire world's network seemed to become a transparent matrix in his eyes, firewalls were useless, and data streams became playthings at his fingertips.

A refreshing coolness washed over my eyes, and the world seemed brand new.

Beneath the expensive foundation on the wealthy woman's face lay stiff muscles; beneath the tycoon's feigned composure lay hidden unease. In his eyes, nothing in the world held any secret.

The +10 charm value, like a warm current, subtly transformed his temperament.

His eyes became even more profound, and the unintentional curve of his lips seemed to possess a fatal attraction.

Lin Chen took a deep breath, feeling the tremendous transformation in his body and mind.

Especially when he saw the long string of numbers in his bank account, a genuine smile appeared on his lips.

Five million arrived, skills were acquired, and there was a round of applause.

This life is much more hopeful than being a beast of burden at an internet company.