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Chapter 317: Chapter 216 Chapter 317: Chapter 216 “Fine!” Long Brother bristled with confidence, “If you’ve wronged me, you’ll have to kneel and kowtow in apology! I dare you to do that!”

He hadn’t met Wenyan before today, and he didn’t believe this woman could produce any evidence to the contrary. Ridiculous!

“Sure,” Wenyan replied with a smile, “Why wouldn’t I dare? But what if I haven’t wronged you—how do you plan to apologize to me?”

Long Brother’s eyebrows shot up: “That’s impossible, you’re definitely framing me. I’m a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide. Even if the Emperor himself were here, I wouldn’t be lending money at usurious rates.”

Such bold words… Chengcai felt nervous for him.

He couldn’t withstand an investigation; the public security system still had records of his time in prison.

Worried that he might say too much and cause trouble, Chengcai tugged at his clothes covertly.

Wenyan remained cool and collected.

She played the phone recording again.

“I’m sure everyone is familiar with this recording, as I just played it a few minutes ago. This is the recording of Chengcai calling me for a loan, leveraging his favor. But if you listen carefully, you’ll notice that there’s not just Chengcai’s voice on the other end. He is clearly in a place like a gambling den, with other voices discussing gambling and borrowing money,”

‘Yes, yes, yes!’ comments quickly floated up on the live stream, ‘I heard it too just now, someone over there did say that.’

‘+1, I heard it as well, so I believe Wenyan. Chengcai definitely called to extort Wenyan after losing money, trying to use her as his personal ATM.’

Wenyan paused the recording at the part where someone says, “Come gamble, if you dare to borrow money, don’t even think about running.”

“Long Brother, correct?” Wenyan looked toward the middle-aged man in the opposite studio, “Do you admit that’s your voice?”

Of course, there was no doubt that it was his own voice!

But how could he possibly admit it?

Long Brother cleared his throat: “So this is the evidence you’re talking about? Do you think this is child’s play? You claim it’s my voice—that makes it my voice? Little sister, seeing is believing, hearing is deceptive—have you not heard this saying? I’d think you’re old enough to know better.”

“Unless you saw those words come out of my mouth, you can’t prove I said them. People’s voices can sound different on the phone, and besides, there are many people in the world with similar voices. What gives you the right to pin this voice on me?”

“Let’s let the viewers judge, shall we? Come on, everyone, let’s hear your thoughts. Do you think our great star here is making sense?”

The onlookers, eager for drama, were all too happy to let things escalate.

‘That really doesn’t prove anything.’

‘Even though I think the voice on the phone sounds like this guy, it really can’t serve as evidence.’

‘Yeah, this female star was so confident, I thought she had some solid evidence, but this is it?’

‘Long Brother has a point, that female star is really playing house.’

‘I’m saying, isn’t it time for that female star to kneel down and kowtow to Long Brother in apology?’

‘Kneel your grandpa, this so-called Long Brother may be illiterate fine, but are you all, tapping on the keyboards, illiterate too? Don’t you know that every person’s vocal timbre is unique?’

‘Because the structure of everyone’s vocal cords, the vibration patterns, speaking habits, and the presence of resonant cavities are all different. These factors together create an individual’s vocal timbre. Even the police use equipment and technology to compare voices during investigations—once they check, they can find out, okay!’

‘A bunch of people who don’t know anything just blabbing here, really cracking me up.’

‘You know everything, you’re so knowledgeable, why don’t you go ahead and drag Long Brother to the police station for a voice comparison?’

‘Heh, you’re offended when I call you illiterate. That so-called Long Brother can’t be arrested by the police without suspicion of a crime, but as a citizen, he has the obligation to cooperate with an investigation.’

Wenyan watched the debate unfold.

She remained unhurried and composed.

“Everyone, please calm down. Of course, I wouldn’t conclude based solely on this that the voice belongs to Long Brother. But what if I have other supporting evidence?”

“Then show it!” Long Brother, seeing many netizens on his side, grew even more brazen.

“You’re not chickening out, are you? Afraid to lower your face and apologize to me on your knees? Let me tell you, I’m not easily provoked, nor can you just frame me without consequence.”