Chapter 2396

Chapter 2396: Chapter 2396

After she finished speaking, she turned her head to the theater manager. "Today it was Lu Zishu’s fault. Manager, please help us tell the people in that screening room that we disturbed their movie and we’re very sorry. Right now we’re willing to compensate each of them with a ticket of equal value, leave our personal information, and they can redeem it anytime."

Tickets are three yuan each now. Ruan Jiaojiao knew this Yang Family cinema well—the smallest auditorium had forty seats, the largest only fifty-five. That amount of money, they could afford to pay.

But Lu Zishu’s phone wasn’t cheap. It was a new model this year, bought for nearly five thousand.

She got to this point and looked at the couple. "As for you two, we’ll compensate your tickets the same way, but you have to pay for our phone too!"

"Why should we! He’s the one who disrupted the theater in the first place!" The couple didn’t have a phone themselves, but they still knew how expensive they were. Even the cheapest kind cost several times their monthly salary, and as for Lu Zishu’s model, the girl could just barely recognize it as the most famous brand right now—the kind she usually didn’t even dare look at twice.

Ruan Jiaojiao let out a cold laugh. "Exactly, that’s why we’re willing to compensate. We’re taking responsibility for what we did wrong. And you also beat my brother up like this—just the fact we’re not asking you for medical expenses is doing you a favor. Now all we want is the money for the phone!"

"Of course, if you feel the mediation from the police uncles here isn’t enough, we can hire a lawyer and take it to court." As she said this last part, Ruan Jiaojiao was completely exuding the air of someone rich and domineering, making the young couple across from her so furious their faces went pale.

"How much." the man asked. He was actually feeling somewhat guilty too. It was true that Lu Zishu had disrupted the theater, but he was the one who had reached out and shoved him first, and that was why Lu Zishu had flung his arm back. Compared to mouthing off, being the first to use force clearly put him at a disadvantage.

"This is the latest MOTO. I’ll give you a discounted depreciation price, eighty percent of the original. My brother’s used it for about a month. He bought it for five thousand eight hundred."

Five thousand eight!

The couple instantly sucked in a breath of cold air.

Five thousand eight—even at eighty percent that was over four thousand. That was the two of them’s combined monthly salary!

The woman’s face went bloodless in an instant, the man’s too. His hands even trembled a little as regret for his impulsiveness hit him.

But faced with Ruan Jiaojiao’s tough stance, the two of them no longer had the courage they’d shown before. In the end, under the police’s witness, they signed the mediation agreement.

After the couple left, Ruan Jiaojiao kept her word and told the manager to put all that compensation under Lu Zishu’s name.

And throughout the whole process Lu Zishu was like a wooden puppet, just being dragged along by them.

Once they exited the theater and reached the parking lot, he suddenly thought of something and ran straight toward the direction where the Xin Family’s car had been parked.

When he reached the spot and saw that the space where the Xin Family’s car should have been was empty, with nothing there except his coat lying on the ground, crushed by passing cars into streaks of mud, his whole body froze on the spot. Only a bone-eating chill was left.

Especially the chest area stained by the black coffee he had flung out earlier—there it was as if a huge hole had been torn open, the cold seeping through, so cold his whole body was shuddering in the wind.

Following his gaze, Ruan Jiaojiao saw the coat that had already been flattened by the traffic and sighed softly in her heart. She walked over and said, "Since it’s already wet and filthy, just leave it. You’re dressed so lightly—let’s go back."