ECG -Chapter 160 A Pretty Face Alone Cannot Sustain a Lifetime of Good Fortune

Seeing the KT boards held up by those fans, Lin Hao felt that it was quite a coincidence. He had actually run into this Wei Dan at the airport.

“Move! Move aside!”

A shout came from behind Lin Hao. Before he could react, a powerful force suddenly pushed him from behind.

“Thump, thump, thump!”

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Caught completely off guard, he was shoved sideways and staggered several steps. He finally managed to steady himself, but the paper bag in his hand slipped and fell to the ground. Before he could bend down to pick it up, a black leather shoe stepped right onto it.

Lin Hao’s anger surged. He raised his head and saw a young man wearing a black suit and sunglasses, standing with his back to him and both arms stretched out to block people.

Looking closer, he realized it wasn’t just this one person. There were five more men dressed the same way, all stretching out their arms and pushing away the passengers.

Then, a woman wearing oversized sunglasses slowly walked out under their protection. Two young girls who looked like assistants followed behind her.

The woman had long hair draped over her shoulders, and her expression was arrogant. Only her delicate nose and bright red lips could be seen beneath her sunglasses. She wore a long white dress embroidered with a colorful phoenix.

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Although she was wearing a pair of extremely exaggerated high-heeled sandals, it was obvious that she wasn’t very tall—at most around 160 centimeters.

Lin Hao recognized her at a glance. This woman was none other than Wei Dan!

The scene was chaotic. Many passengers were cursing angrily, and some people wanted to go over to take photos or ask for autographs, but they were all pushed away by those men who looked like bodyguards.

At that moment, a girl of about sixteen or seventeen cleverly slipped past the bodyguards. She was holding a CD and shouted excitedly,

“Sis Dan, I really like you! Could you sign this for me?”

Wei Dan coldly glanced at an assistant beside her. The little assistant immediately panicked and hurried over to pull the girl away. The girl desperately shook the CD in her hand, tears already streaming down her face.

A bodyguard came over and grabbed the girl’s shoulder.

“Thump, thump, thump—”

The girl was pushed back into the crowd. If there hadn’t been so many people around, she probably would have fallen over.

A man in the crowd who was obviously the girl’s father raised his hand and angrily shouted at them, but with the crowd making so much noise, no one could hear what he was saying.

Lin Hao thought to himself: What a grand display of arrogance!

That fall just now had probably broken the glass trophy inside the paper bag. His anger grew even stronger. He bent down, grabbed the ankle of the foot that was stepping on the bag, and lifted it upward with all his strength.

“Bang!”

The bodyguard was flipped over and fell heavily to the ground. The crowd let out a startled cry, not understanding what had happened.

Two bodyguards immediately stepped in front of Wei Dan, while the remaining three surrounded Lin Hao.

Lin Hao ignored them. He bent down and picked up the paper bag from the ground. When he opened it and looked inside, he found that the trophy’s base and the main body had indeed broken apart.

Although the trophy itself wasn’t worth much, it was something he had promised his teacher he would bring back. It hadn’t even reached Xuecheng before it was damaged—how could he not be angry?

“What are you doing?” one of the bodyguards pointed at him.

Lin Hao gave him a cold glance, too lazy to bother with this kind of person who relied on someone else’s power to act arrogantly. He looked at Wei Dan and said loudly, “Miss Wei, may I ask if this airport belongs to your family?”

Seeing one of her bodyguards being knocked down, Wei Dan stopped walking. She hadn’t expected this young man in a white shirt to actually criticize her. Her expression immediately changed.

More and more passengers gathered around, whispering among themselves.

Wei Dan raised a hand and pushed up her oversized sunglasses. She gave a disdainful smile. Her red lips pressed tightly together, as if even speaking to Lin Hao would dirty her mouth.

Lin Hao stepped forward and pointed at her, but before he could say anything, a bodyguard reached out toward him and shouted,

“Take your filthy hand away! Don’t fucking point around. Who do you think you are?”

Hearing how dirty this person’s mouth was, Lin Hao could imagine how these people usually treated ordinary passersby.

His anger flared. His right hand shot out like lightning and grabbed the man’s wrist. Then he forcefully pulled downward. At the same time, his right leg was already raised, and his knee slammed heavily into the man’s stomach.

The man let out a cry and collapsed to the ground while clutching his stomach.

The other bodyguards quickly surrounded Lin Hao. At that moment, a man in the crowd shouted:

“Good!”

Then a wave of cheers followed, and soon people started clapping.

The bodyguards surrounding him became noticeably hesitant. It wasn’t that they were afraid of Lin Hao. After all, he was only one person. Even if he had good skills, there was no way he could beat all of them.

What they feared was angering the crowd and damaging their employer’s reputation. Seeing that so many people were clearly supporting Lin Hao, they naturally restrained their earlier eagerness to attack.

“Move aside! Move aside!”

Two fully equipped police officers pushed through the crowd and walked in.

Lin Hao ignored them. He continued raising his finger toward Wei Dan. Seeing that he was about to speak, everyone at the scene fell silent.

“You’re just a small-time singer. You may not even be that famous, but your show of status is quite impressive! That girl just wanted your autograph. Was there really a need to be so afraid?”

“I want to know—who exactly are you afraid of harming you? And who would even want to harm you? Is it us ordinary people?”

Another wave of cheers erupted from the crowd. The two police officers had seen too many incidents like this at the airport, and the moment they came over, they understood what was going on. Seeing that the person lying on the ground had already gotten back up, while a young man was still speaking, they decided to observe the situation first, so they stood to the side and did not step forward.

Wei Dan’s face alternated between red and pale. She had already noticed someone recording with a DV camera, and others were holding up the latest phones capable of recording videos. The crowd had now completely surrounded them, making it difficult even to leave.

She knew she couldn’t act rashly at this moment, so she continued standing there with a cold expression, saying nothing.

“Going out requires so many people to clear the way for you. You’re only missing having yellow earth spread on the road and clean water sprinkled on the streets. What’s this supposed to be? Are you the Empress Dowager going out on a procession?”

Laughter broke out among the crowd. Even the two police officers couldn’t help but laugh.

“Even if some people are granted certain privileges in specific situations, those privileges also come with responsibilities they must shoulder! It’s not for using your influence to seek special treatment or priority over others! May I ask what have you ever done that benefits the people? Are you worthy of it?”

The applause continued.

Every time Lin Hao finished a section, he was met with a wave of enthusiastic applause.

Wei Dan’s face turned even more red and pale by turns. One of the assistants beside her started tugging at her sleeve, the meaning obvious: Leave quickly!

Lin Hao hated this kind of behavior from her. How could he possibly let her off so easily?

“Celebrities are the same as us—they’re ordinary people too. The only difference is the type of work they do. What made you become so inflated that you think you’re superior to others? And why should we have to make way for you?”

Wei Dan’s oversized sunglasses could no longer hide her flushed face. She continued to remain silent.

The crowd erupted into applause again.

“Lastly, I’ll give you one sentence: A pretty face alone cannot support a lifetime of good fortune. A person’s character is their best passport in life!”

“Boom—”

The applause exploded. Even the two police officers joined in and clapped.

“Well said!”

“Wei Dan! Get lost!”

“Get lost!”

“Get lost!”

“Bitch!”

“What’s so great about you?”

“…”

Many people started cursing. Especially the passengers who had almost been pushed over earlier, and the man who was holding his daughter and wiping away her tears. Lin Hao’s words had stirred their blood, and at this moment they shouted angrily, filled with righteous indignation.

One of the bodyguards in black suits was clearly smarter than the others. He knew that if they stayed any longer, they would only end up being drowned in everyone’s insults. He shouted something to the other five bodyguards, and the six of them quickly surrounded Wei Dan and her two assistants.

The two people in front took the lead, acting much more low-key this time. In a very polite manner, they said:

“Please make way, please make way…”

The crowd was clearly still quite tolerant. Although some people couldn’t help but spit a few times toward them, they still opened a path. Wei Dan and her group hurriedly ran out of the airport lobby in embarrassment.

The fans at the exit holding KT boards were all stunned. When Lin Hao had been speaking earlier, many of them had also applauded and cheered along with everyone else. Only now did they realize—

How had they ended up being convinced by him?

So the group of people grabbed their KT boards and ran outside, chasing after Wei Dan and the others.

The two police officers turned around and shouted, telling everyone to disperse. Then they walked over. One of them, a round-faced officer in his early thirties, reached out and patted Lin Hao on the shoulder.

“Kid, did you lose anything?”

Lin Hao thought of that trophy and sighed inwardly. He knew there was no point telling the police officers about this matter, so he shook his head.

The other, slightly taller officer gave him a thumbs-up. The gesture was small, and he lowered his voice as he said:

“Good. You cursed her well. Damn, that was satisfying!”

They stood guard in the airport lobby every day and had long been annoyed by these so-called celebrities who acted like they were something special. But with their duties, they couldn’t say anything. Today, Lin Hao had vented everyone’s anger for them, so naturally they felt extremely pleased.

The crowd dispersed. The excitement was gone, and everyone started leaving.

Lin Hao carried his paper bag out of the airport lobby. Standing at the entrance, he put a cigarette in his mouth, only then remembering that he didn’t have a lighter. Fortunately, this was the place with the most smokers, so he casually found someone nearby and lit his cigarette.

Just as he finished one cigarette, a black GMC van stopped by the roadside.