A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 299 Running away from home

After Qiao Weidong got tired of walking around the living room, he plopped down on the sofa and picked up his phone to make a call. "Hello, Old Chen, what's going on? Don't pretend to be ignorant. You know why I'm looking for you."

"Dad, what are you doing?"

Qiao Yingzi, who was curled up on the sofa, immediately realized that her father was calling Chen Ming, and quickly stood up to grab the phone.

"Hey, Yingzi, stop making trouble. Your Uncle Chen and I have something to talk about." Qiao Weidong raised his arm to block Qiao Yingzi's outstretched hand and held the phone high.

As a father, he naturally didn't want his daughter to have any stain on her or to bear any inexplicable stigma.

But from Qiao Yingzi's perspective, this is not the case. What happened last night was obviously a misunderstanding, which can be clarified sooner or later. What she needs is her parents' understanding, not to discuss the issue of responsibility and indiscriminately push everything onto Chen Jinnian, acting like a villain who takes advantage of the situation.

Qiao Yingzi jumped up and reached out twice but failed to touch him. She shouted angrily, "Dad, what on earth do you want to do?"

"I'm doing this for your own good. It's Chen Jinnian's responsibility that this happened. He has to restore your reputation and apologize to you. Otherwise, how will others see you? Which boy will dare to be with you? How are you going to get married and have children in the future?" Qiao Weidong said emotionally.

Qiao Yingzi's eyes welled up with tears when she heard this, and she shouted in a hoarse voice: "Do you care about what others think of me, or do you care about what others think of you? You think I'm embarrassing you outside, and I'm embarrassing you as your daughter, right?"

After hearing her words, Fang Yuan, Song Qian and Tong Wenjie quickly stood up and wanted to go up and persuade her.

Qiao Weidong realized he had spoken out of turn, reached out to hug his daughter, and quickly explained, "Yingzi, you misunderstood. Dad didn't mean that."

Qiao Yingzi pushed her father's arm away, two lines of tears rolled down her cheeks, and her voice was choked with sobs.

"What do you mean by not meaning this? Dad, I am your daughter. I am the one being comforted now. Why do you always think about others? Who will marry me and have children with me? Is this my only value in your eyes?"

"Yingzi, Dad said something wrong."

Qiao Weidong wanted to explain, but Qiao Yingzi didn't give him a chance. She pushed him onto the sofa and ran out.

"Yingzi."

"Yingzi."

After seeing Qiao Yingzi open the door and rush out of the room, several parents panicked and hurried back to chase her, but Tong Wenjie was too anxious and suddenly felt some pain in her abdomen, so she grabbed Song Qian's arm.

"Ouch, my tummy."

The room was now in a complete mess. It was not right to go out, and it was not right not to go out.

"Fang Yuan, go chase Yingzi first. You won't be able to find her soon. I'm fine. This isn't the first time. Let me take it easy and then go to the hospital." Tong Wenjie said breathlessly.

"Yes, yes, leave Wenjie to me. I will take care of her. Please help me see where Yingzi has gone." Song Qian supported Tong Wenjie. Although she was very confused, she still felt that it was best to let Fang Yuan go.

"Okay, I'll go right away. I'll go to the hospital as soon as I find Yingzi."

Fang Yuan didn't dare to delay any longer. He hurriedly changed his shoes at the door and ran out to find Qiao Yingzi.

Qiao Weidong also chased after him worriedly, but was stopped by Song Qian and angrily scolded, "Qiao Weidong, what are you doing there? Don't you think it's not chaotic enough? Without your words, would Yingzi have run away from home out of grievance?"

"I was careless, I just spoke out of turn."

"Stop, I don't want to hear your explanation. Let's talk about it after Yingzi comes back. Drive the car downstairs first. I have to accompany Wenjie to the hospital."

After Song Qian finished speaking, she saw Qiao Weidong still standing there in a dilemma, not knowing whether to chase his daughter or drive. She no longer had any hope in this guy and directly picked up the phone to call an ambulance.

After Fang Yuan chased her downstairs, he saw Qiao Yingzi running out of the community gate with her head lowered, so he quickly took two steps to catch up with her.

He was very thankful that Qiao Yingzi came out in a hurry and was wearing slippers so he couldn't run too fast. Otherwise, with his current athletic ability, he would have had a hard time catching up with Qiao Yingzi.

But even so, Fang Yuan still spent more than ten minutes, and after being exhausted and panting, he barely caught up with the other party.

"Uncle Fang, please stop trying to persuade me. I don't want to go back now."

Fang Yuan bent over with his hands on his knees. He only had his mouth open and was trying hard to breathe, so he had no time to speak at all.

Seeing Fang Yuan so tired, Qiao Yingzi stopped walking and stood by the roadside to rest with him.

After gasping for breath for a long time, Fang Yuan just stood up and was about to speak, but Qiao Yingzi turned around and continued walking forward, so he hurriedly jogged to catch up.

"Yingzi, I'll drive you wherever you want to go. Let's not leave for now, okay? The amount of exercise we just did is greater than what I do in a week. I can't hold on any longer if we keep walking."

Yingzi finally stopped.

"Actually, I don't know either. I just don't want to stay at home anymore."

Compared with the pressure brought by external public opinion, what really made her uncomfortable was her parents' attitude.

What Qiao Weidong wanted was for Chen Jinnian to apologize, while what Song Qian wanted was for her to cut off contact with Chen Jinnian from then on, as if they were tacitly admitting that they were wrong and convicting them according to the principle of "flies don't bite seamless eggs".

Why? Flies can land anywhere. Why is it the fault of whoever the fly lands on? Have you ever thought that it is the fly's own fault?

"Then let's go to my house and sit for a while first." Fang Yuan suggested.

Qiao Yingzi shook her head. Tong Wenjie and Song Qian had such a good relationship and were so close that there was no obvious difference between going to Fang Yuan's house and going back to hers.

When the two were in a stalemate on the roadside, an Audi swerved to the left and lowered the window. Inside was Chen Ming, whom Qiao Weidong was looking for.

Qiao Weidong did not hang up the phone immediately after the call, so he heard the whole incident on the phone. Especially after he knew that Qiao Yingzi slammed the door and left, he hurriedly drove over from his son's company.

After seeing that it was indeed Qiao Yingzi standing by the roadside, Chen Ming quickly opened the door and got out of the car. "Yingzi, I'm sorry for making you suffer. I'll deal with that brat when we get back."

"Uncle." Seeing Chen Ming coming over, Qiao Yingzi rushed over as if she had found a family member, hugged Chen Ming and started crying.

"Be good, Yingzi, stop crying. Uncle will take you to beat him up."

Chen Ming quickly comforted her and looked at Fang Yuan, asking what was going on. After learning that Qiao Yingzi was still angry and didn't want to go home, he suggested, "Why don't you go to your uncle's place first? Your Aunt Su and Xuanyue are both home, and Xiaoyue can speak now. You haven't seen her yet, have you?"

Qiao Yingzi wiped her tears, calmed down, and turned to Fang Yuan and said, "Uncle Fang, I didn't bring my phone. Please tell Mom that I'm going to see Xuanyue. I'll go home in the evening."

"Okay, go ahead, I'll call her later."

Fang Yuan agreed straightforwardly. After standing by the roadside and watching Chen Ming drive away, he slapped his thigh in regret, "I should have asked Chen Ming to give me a ride to the gate of the community. Okay, another trip."

He trotted back to the community along the same route to get his car and go to the hospital.

Chen Jinnian acted very quickly, reporting the case and prosecuting simultaneously. Whether the case could be accepted was secondary. The key was to demonstrate the determination to get to the bottom of the matter, so that the direction of public opinion could be changed quickly. As for the subsequent rumor-busting, that could be accomplished overnight.

Before noon that day, shortly after Chen Ming left the company, more than a dozen lawyers' letters were published from his and Wang Yidi's accounts. After all, this was not the first time that Chen Jinnian had been the target of rumors, and the law firm was very familiar with the process.

Moreover, the record can be checked, and there are still several newly sent prisoners in the juvenile detention center.

For a time, the media that wanted to join in the fun began to frantically delete their reports. They all knew that this time it was for real, and no one dared to bet whether they would be the one hit by the fly swatter when it fell.