Chapter 230: Sincerity

Chapter 230: Chapter 230: Sincerity

"You can look down on me, you can even despise me."

"I admit, I was focused on the school’s success rate, but I never, ever intended to harm them."

"I just wanted to make things better for them. Most of the children living in the neighborhoods around this school are left-behind children."

"They either live with their maternal grandparents, their paternal grandparents, or they come from divorced families."

"The trauma from their home lives might have made their personalities a bit extreme."

"I just wanted to suppress that a bit, to smooth out the rough edges of their personalities..."

With that, Lin Shu dropped to his knees with a THUD, tears streaming down his face as he sobbed.

"Your intentions may have been good, but the final outcome is irreversible."

"So you don’t need to cry here, and you don’t need to apologize to us."

"Take the money and go. We’ll handle things here."

"Don’t let them see you again, and don’t show your face here again."

"If you have any conscience, give me the contact information for those three families."

Jiang Fan really couldn’t be bothered to talk to someone like this anymore.

’What’s the use of regretting it now? There’s no cure for regret in this world.’

"Are you signing or not? If not, then just forget it."

Seeing him still kneeling there, unmoving, Jiang Fan grew impatient.

"I’ll sign. I’ll get the hell out of here as soon as I’m done."

"This money is for the wages owed to the teachers and for compensation to the parents of those three children."

"I won’t pocket a single cent of this money."

"Believe it or not, that’s absolutely what I’m going to do."

After saying this, Lin Shu stood up and signed his name with a trembling hand.

Then he pulled a small notebook from his back pocket and placed it on the desk with both hands.

Then he turned and left.

From his retreating back, Jiang Fan could see the emotions he was forcefully suppressing.

He could also tell that the man hadn’t been lying just now.

"I was a bit too naive. I didn’t expect things to be this troublesome."

"I originally just thought this school was poorly managed. Plus, according to the information I received, someone already had their eyes on it."

"After all, as long as you buy it and invest in its development, it’s a surefire profit."

Gazing at the contract and the series of qualification certificates on the desk, Jun Yue crossed his arms and looked at Jiang Fan.

"Everything else is fine. The most urgent task now is to deal with those three families."

"If they have the power to drive a legitimate, legal school into bankruptcy, then it’s basically impossible for us to get around them."

"So, only by solving this problem can we rest easy, and only then can the children attend school in peace."

Jiang Fan sat down on a nearby sofa.

"So, what’s your plan?"

"Quiet. I’m thinking."

After saying that, he fell into deep thought.

After a long while, he slowly spoke, "Let’s meet them first. We’ll figure out the rest after we see them."

"Then how do we get them to meet us?"

"Just call them directly and tell them the school is reopening."

"They’re bound to come."

Jiang Fan nodded slightly. The two of them were on the same page.

They acted immediately. Without any hesitation, they sent text messages to the three families.

After all that, the two of them sat and waited quietly for their arrival.

Half an hour later, the two of them stood by the window, staring at the scene before them, completely dumbfounded.

They had originally thought it would be outrageous enough if the three families just brought a huge entourage of their extended relatives.

Or, if they had connections, that some official authority would come to seal the school or conduct all sorts of qualification inspections.

But it was none of that. Instead, there was an incredibly neat square formation.

Every person was dressed in a suit and tie, wearing sunglasses.

A careful count revealed there were over a hundred people.

And outside the school, there was also a large group of various thugs.

"BANG."

With a loud crash, the door to the principal’s office was violently kicked open.

The two of them whipped around at the same time.

Three men and three women—three couples in total—walked in. Seeing Jiang Fan and Jun Yue, they all looked a bit stunned.

"Who are you? Where’s Lin Shu?"

The man standing in the middle was the first to ask.

"Did you send us the message?"

The man on the right also took a step forward.

"What’s your goal? Since you sent us this message and got our contact information, you must have looked into this school and what happened to us."

"What is it? Here to rub salt in our wounds?"

The man on the left also spoke, his voice extremely cold.

Jun Yue was just about to speak when Jiang Fan pulled him back.

"We’re the ones who have taken over this school."

"We have indeed learned something of what happened before, and we wish to express our deepest condolences to you."

Jiang Fan’s voice carried a strange magnetism, and he gave them a deep bow.

"But I sincerely hope you can show mercy. You are all local big shots, with power, people, and influence."

"We went through great trouble to take over this school, and not for the purpose of making a profit."

Jiang Fan sighed, took his phone out of his pocket, found a photo, and held the phone out to them with both hands.

"This is our orphanage. A new regulation from the Bureau of Education means that nearly forty of our children are about to be left without a school to attend."

"Some of them are in elementary school, some are in middle school, and some are stuck at the critical moment of their senior year of high school."

"I can’t just watch them be left without an education. I can’t watch their entire lives be ruined in our hands."

"That’s why we took over this school, and why we’re having this meeting today."

"I hope you’ll be merciful."

Jiang Fan’s attitude was as sincere as it could be, his posture as humble as possible.

This was the only method he could think of. Fighting fire with fire was definitely not a long-term solution.

The three couples looked at each other. Jiang Fan’s move had completely thrown them for a loop.

This was especially true for the three mothers who had lost their children.

Gazing at the smiling, hopeful, and innocent faces of the children in the orphanage, they could faintly see their own children, as if they too had once looked that way.

Tears began to fall from their eyes uncontrollably.