The Real Heiress Has an Appraisal System

After hearing that, who could possibly stand it?

In any case, Brother Hei couldn’t. It was the first time he’d ever met someone who humblebragged so much.

Inside, Brother Hei crushed the cup in his hand!

He strode out and pointed at Gu Shengsheng. "You, watch your mouth! Eating skewers to ’cleanse your stomach’? No wonder you can eat so much!"

"You’re stuffing your face, but have you thought about anyone else? Everyone’s watching!"

Gu Shengsheng leaned back lazily in her chair.

She laughed. "Well, look who’s here. I thought you were some shy maiden in a sedan chair, too precious to show your face. Or were you just too scared?"

"You’re scared to even face a little girl like me? Just how weak are you?"

"With your level of skill, you kidnap old professors. Why don’t you try kidnapping me?"

It had to be said, Gu Shengsheng’s words were really asking for a beating.

But it seemed these old-hand thieves fell for this trick completely.

They couldn’t resist being goaded at all!

"You just wait!"

Brother Hei went back inside and said to his two brothers, "We’re going out to eat! The hostages will stand off to the side. I want to see just what tricks this woman is trying to pull!"

"I don’t believe for a second that she can handle us. She just has a sharp tongue."

"Second, Third, let’s go!"

With that, the three of them dragged the five tied-up people out in a swarm.

The hostages stood while they sat on the small stools next to Gu Shengsheng.

Brother Hei didn’t even bother speaking to Gu Shengsheng; he just snatched the skewers and started eating. The three of them devoured the food as if they hadn’t eaten in their entire lives.

Gu Shengsheng, on the other hand, was full... stuffed to bursting, really.

The viewers in the livestream chat were dying of laughter watching Gu Shengsheng’s utterly listless expression as she soaked up the sun.

"LMAO, our streamer really knows how to spice things up!"

"We can’t call her an appraisal streamer anymore. Look how talented she is as a food streamer! This isn’t just making the kid next door cry from hunger; she’s driven the bandits mad with craving!"

"LOL, that’s a perfect description. And I’ve gotta say, that delivery guy is a legend. I knew delivery guys weren’t just some ordinary organization, but a mysterious and righteous one."

"I freaking love this streamer. I feel like this is in the bag!"

Indeed, it wasn’t just the viewers who felt it was in the bag. Even Zhang Lianqing thought the current situation was looking very good.

With these bandits coming out into the open, right under the police’s noses, their chances of success had increased by at least 50%.

Of course, Gu Shengsheng was very calm. It seemed she had a way to resolve this without using force...

So, Zhang Lianqing waited, and the people around him didn’t move either.

As they ate, the leader seemed to need to prove something to Gu Shengsheng. "I’ve never met anyone like you. You’re so disrespectful toward food."

"A young girl like you, using our skewers to ’cleanse your stomach.’ You’re supposed to drink soup to cleanse your stomach, you know? Since you were already full, wouldn’t it have been better to just give the skewers to us?"

Gu Shengsheng nodded casually, not really listening.

But the more she acted this way, the more worked up they got.

"Hey! You out-of-towner, do you even know how to eat?!"

Gu Shengsheng said, "Yes, yes, yes."

She seemed to be enjoying the breeze, but in reality, she was watching the trio’s every move.

The leader, the chatty one, was busy checking his phone. He’d look at it every other minute, then sulk by himself...

Gu Shengsheng asked, seemingly by chance, "How’s it going? Did something happen?"

"Lost contact with your buyer?"

"What the hell does it have to do with you?! Stop being nosy. This is adult business, so stay out of it. And what’s with the police? Are they on drugs or something, sending you to persuade us? The previous ones didn’t work, and someone like you definitely won’t work either!"

"You even helped us kidnappers recover our stamina! You people are so stupid!"

Gu Shengsheng looked at his smug expression and knew. ’This level of intelligence... he’s easy to fool.’

She relaxed even more.

She said, "I’m not an ordinary person. I’m in the antiques appraisal business. I often trade in relics, and I deal with people in your line of work all the time."

"I’ve never been to Anxi, but I know a lot of people in Beijing City." Gu Shengsheng paused here, seeming to want to say more but holding back, and even sighed.

Brother Hei asked, "So you know people. What does that have to do with us? What are you sighing for?"

Gu Shengsheng said, "I knew someone, but he’s dead now. No, wait, it was a team. A team of three, just like you."

Then, Gu Shengsheng started making things up:

"I met him at a flea market. Back then, he often brought me goods, but then he just disappeared. He stopped replying on WeChat. I always thought he’d just blocked me, his client. It wasn’t until I saw his obituary notice on WeChat that I knew he was dead."

The third brother was scared to death. "How did he die?"

"From what I read on the obituary, they were on a tomb-raiding job. They’d arranged the time with the buyer, but when they got there, the police had them surrounded. Just terrible luck."

"So they tried to escape. They couldn’t just surrender their lives to the police, right? So they took hostages from the people nearby. And then... I don’t know what happened to the three of them. They made a wrong move, and they were executed on the spot."

After speaking, Gu Shengsheng even made a throat-slitting gesture.

She looked around in a panic.

And said, "Don’t tell anyone, okay? That guy... he really died."

The second and third brothers were so scared they hugged each other.

Then Brother Hei got angry. After the initial fear wore off, he thought it over and felt something was off. "You’re just making this up, aren’t you!"

He then pointed his gun at Gu Shengsheng. "Shut up! Don’t spout nonsense, or I won’t let you leave here alive."

The sound of a bullet being chambered could be heard. The surrounding police also broke into a cold sweat.

But Gu Shengsheng just looked at Brother Hei.

She said, "It is real. You’re just too much of a failure to believe it, aren’t you?"

"It’s okay. It’s a guy thing, totally normal. I get it. Who can accept their own failure?"

"After all, you’ve been abandoned by your buyer. The police arrived so conveniently. Why so fast, you think? Could it be that you were reported?"

"The only one who knew your whereabouts was the buyer. Now, with all these relics, and yourselves... can you really get out?"

"Oh, right. Let me remind you, illegally carrying a firearm is already a prison sentence. And you’re pointing it at people who’ve made contributions to the nation—them. And now you’re pointing it at a bystander like me."

"You’ll never get clean from this."

Then Gu Shengsheng looked at the second and third brothers and said, "The same goes for you two."

The third brother was terrified. He said, "We have to go to prison?! Boss, what do we do!"

"I don’t want to go to prison."

Gu Shengsheng comforted them, "It’s okay, prison isn’t that scary! You just hang out inside for a bit. At most, some people might beat you half to death, there’s forced labor, you’ll get bullied, lots of people die in there, and also your children won’t be able to take the civil service exams, probably for three generations of your family..."

Gu Shengsheng counted on her fingers for a long while before finally saying, "Aside from all that, there’s nothing else. So don’t worry."

The three of them were about to die of fright.

Normally, they never had to deal with these things. Now that Gu Shengsheng had laid it all out, they believed her without a doubt and were even showing signs of breaking down.

Of course, Gu Shengsheng herself had never been to prison either; she was just randomly guessing.