Chapter 57: Check the Surveillance! A Slap in the Face!

“I don’t care what you mean; I will not allow Tang Tang to stay here any longer,” Yan Yueqing said, her voice cold as ice. “At a hotel, the owner is responsible for guests’ safety. Who would have thought that here, a guest gets slapped and is then forced to apologize to the landlord? Where’s the justice in that?”

Qin Youran tried to mediate: “Yueqing, you’ve misunderstood. I’m not forcing Tang Tang, I just thought about Xiaohua—”

“Just because Xiaohua is sick and pitiful, everyone should give in to her?” Yan Yueqing sneered. “Youran, the world doesn’t operate on the principle of ‘the weak are always right.’ Does being sick give her the right to hit people randomly?”

Hearing her sister speak up for her, Tang Tang felt both moved and wronged. She buried her face in Yan Yueqing’s shoulder, crying softly like a little koala.

[I can’t believe I’m impressed by Yan Yueqing’s fierce protectiveness! Come on, I’m supposed to be her professional black fan!]

[Qin Youran looks young, but why is her thinking more outdated than my mom’s?]

[After all, she’s from an ordinary background. No offense, but most families in China do raise kids this way! Always telling them to give in to younger siblings or guests, never doing anything good for their own children! Qin Youran is just a reflection of society.]

[Not Yan Yueqing though! She’s more like our generation. When I was little, my neighbor’s sister came over, and my mom made me give her my favorite teddy bear. Yesterday, when my daughter cried because her grandma gave her toy to a visiting child, I marched right over and got it back!]

“You… you people!” Tian Xiao’e, seeing Yueqing’s firm stance, began to wail. “Heavens above, have you no sense of reason?! She just got slapped once, but my daughter was cursed to die by her!”

[I’m utterly speechless!]

[What kind of mother is this? It’s like something out of a TV drama. I bet if her daughter does something terrible in the future, this mom will say, ‘The other person just lost their life, but my daughter’s psyche has suffered great trauma!’]

[If we’re talking about being frail and sickly, Yan Wang is the true picture of a fragile child, isn’t he? I have a friend working at Ren’ai Hospital in C City. She’s always telling me about a child in the intensive care unit who’s had to live in the hospital since he was little, spending hundreds of thousands a month just to stay alive. He’s beautiful but so pitiful! Last night I showed her Wang Wang’s video, and she said it’s that same child from their hospital!]

[Intensive care? Hundreds of thousands a month? Living in the hospital since childhood? Damn, this illness sounds incredibly serious!]

[My heart aches for Wang Wang. No wonder he was in a wheelchair when he first appeared on camera…]

[Suddenly, Yan Yueqing’s previous ‘bad’ behavior makes sense. They say the worse your image in reality shows, the more money you make. Maybe she’s really been working hard to earn money for her son’s treatment?]

[Hey, hey, hey, remember Liushu Jiangling. Does Yan Yueqing really lack money?]

[Sisters, we’re off-topic! We’re discussing Song Xiaohua now! I hope the production team takes a firm stance on this and doesn’t play dumb! Yan Yueqing is standing up for Tang Tang here. If the production team chickens out just to keep the peace, I’ll be the first to object!]

Keep the peace? That’s impossible!

The crew members had been with Tang Tang for five seasons, almost half a year. Whether rationally or emotionally, they would naturally favor Tang Tang.

Especially Cao Heng, the crew member who had just opened the door for Song Hui and his wife. After witnessing the clothes-grabbing incident, it wasn’t hard to imagine how Tian Xiao’e usually treated Song Xiaoyu!

Let alone Tang Tang, who wasn’t even related to them!

Qin Youran tried to please both sides: “Sister Tian, don’t be upset. Tang Tang is known for being well-behaved in our group. This is all a misunderstanding! Tang Tang, Xiaohua didn’t mean to hit you on purpose. How about you both apologize to each other and we can put this behind us, okay?”

“Not okay,” Before Tang Tang could respond, Yan Yueqing said coldly, “Didn’t you hear what I just said? Our Tang Tang will absolutely not apologize!”

Her imposing attitude made everyone around gasp!

So bold!

Even Tian Tian looked at Yan Yueqing with newfound admiration.

“Yueqing, you—”

“Qin Youran, I don’t object to you wanting to be the peacemaker. I won’t stop you. But if you want Tang Tang to take the blame, are you treating me like I’m dead?” Yan Yueqing said with a cold smile. “Let me be clear: if anyone dares to force Tang Tang to apologize today, don’t blame me for not letting it go!”

[Damn, that’s too badass! It’s hard not to be moved!!!]

[I used to think Yan Yueqing’s fawning over Tang Tang was disgusting. Now I just wish she was fawning over me, wuwuwu…]

[If I had Yan Yueqing as a mom, how much less wronged would I have felt as a child?]

[Setting aside my prejudice against her for now! Yueqing, I support you on this one!]

Tian Xiao’e’s face was full of resentment as she laughed sarcastically: “Hmph, they say the powerful bully the weak, now I see it clearly! You’re just using your numbers to bully us!”

Yan Yueqing knew she wasn’t convinced, and she also knew the weakness of people like Tian Xiao’e.

“Ten thousand yuan!”

Everyone turned to look at her in unison.

Yan Yueqing, holding Tang Tang, stood straight. Her outstretched index finger had a decisive air that could overturn the situation.

She looked into the greed in Tian Xiao’e’s eyes and said unhurriedly, “Let’s check the surveillance footage and watch it in front of everyone. If Tang Tang really cursed Song Xiaohua, I’ll compensate Song Xiaohua ten thousand yuan for each word she said!”

Her boldness was astonishing!

Tian Xiao’e didn’t even hold Song Xiaohua anymore, jumping up from the bed with joy all over her face: “Really? You can’t go back on your word!”

Yan Yueqing nodded, adding a condition: “But if Tang Tang didn’t curse her, and Song Xiaohua falsely accused her, then I’ll slap Song Xiaohua as many times as the number of words Tang Tang supposedly said. Do you dare to bet?”

Tian Xiao’e hesitated for a moment.

Qin Youran tried to persuade: “Yueqing, this isn’t right. Slapping a child… isn’t that going too far?”

“I’m not asking for your opinion, I’m informing you,” Yan Yueqing didn’t even look at Qin Youran, mocking Tian Xiao’e with a smile, “Or do you also know deep down what kind of person Song Xiaohua is?”

“My Xiaohua is so innocent, how could she be like you say?” The more guilty Tian Xiao’e felt, the louder her voice became.

Yan Yueqing didn’t answer, her eyes full of contemptuous amusement.

[Good, good, good! This plot is thrilling! I love it!]

[Isn’t this more satisfying than those female-lead power fantasy novels?]

Tian Xiao’e thought for a minute. That was ten thousand yuan per word! Although her daughter could be a bit willful, she shouldn’t lie about something like this, right? Even if she lied, it didn’t matter! Tang Tang must have said something similar. She could just twist the truth later!

Unable to resist the temptation of the huge sum of money, she nodded firmly: “Okay! I agree! Let’s check the surveillance footage!”

The netizens went wild!

[Quick, quick, I want to see them kneeling and begging Tang Tang for forgiveness later!]

“Wait a minute!” A sudden voice interrupted.