Father Ji had been greatly holding back his anger for the past few days, and kept wondering if there was some kind of misunderstanding somewhere.
He desperately had people check the matter over and over again.
However, no matter how many times they investigated, the results were always the same.
Ji Tongtong couldn’t get rid of her implication in that incident.
As for the birthday party incident, the aphrodisiac was brought by Yang Xixi, and she naturally wouldn’t use this kind of medicine on herself.
Since if couldn’t be for herself, then who did she plan on using it on?
No matter who she intended to feed it to, once can say that Yang Xixi ended up eating a loss by digging her own grave.
As for Ji Tongtong ……
“Old Ji, why aren’t you speaking? You have to give Tongtong justice, otherwise, how will she ever be able to meet people in the future?! Do you know what everyone is saying about Tongtong at the moment?!”
“Enough!” Father Ji finally reached the end of his patience and snapped.
Looking at his wife, he wanted to say something, but finally held back and simply pushed her away before quickly leaving.
“Old Ji!”
“Old Ji, stop right there!”
“What do you mean by this attitude?!”
Stepmother Ji desperately chased after him while yelling at the top of her lungs.
However, Father Ji decisively walked away without looking back once.
Stepmother Ji was so angry he gasped while trying to steady her breathing with great difficulty. When she turned around, she was immediately faced with Chu Zheng’s freezing cold gaze.
“It’s you ……” Stepmother Ji pointed at Chu Zheng with her trembling finger, anger surging from her eyes: “It’s you who harmed my Tongtong!”
Chu Zheng calmly carried her bag while walking down the stairs, “Do you have proof?”
“Ji Tongtong saw you!” She believed that Ji Tongtong wouldn’t speak nonsense, she must have seen her do it.
She also asked Ji Tongtong about the whole matter and the latter admitted that she and Yang Xixi initially attempted to mess with Chu Zheng. However, how did they end up being the ones to suffer in the end?
“Chu Zheng you little bitch, how dare you harm my Tongtong like this! From the moment I first saw you I knew you were no good!” Stepmother Ji only got angrier and angrier as she suddenly rushed up to Chu Zheng and raised her hand intending to slap her across the face.
Unfortunately for her, Chu Zheng nimbly avoided her, and casually pushed Stepmother Ji from behind while she held onto the handrail.
Stepmother Ji had used a lot of force in her attempted slap. Now that Chu Zheng had avoided it and pushed her, the impact as she fell on the steps was all the more painful.
“Ji Chu Zheng!”
“You’re so noisy.” If only she could directly kill her, she would have saved so much trouble, what a pity.
Chu Zheng indifferently left with her school bag to attend classes, her expression as calm and cold as usual.
By the time Stepmother Ji had climbed back up, Chu Zheng was already long gone.
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Ever since Father Ji started investigating Stepmother Ji, he hasn’t appeared home for several days. Stepmother Ji and Ji Tongtong only felt more and more uneasy, but no matter how they tried, they couldn’t figure out what exactly Father Ji was looking into.
Once she determined that mother and daughter pair to be annoying and noisy, Chu Zheng didn’t bother coming back home either and simply stayed at her apartment.
After a few days, she went back to the Ji House to get back something she needed and just so happened to witness Stepmother Ji fiercely arguing with Father Ji. However, she didn’t know what exactly they were arguing about.
At some point, Father Ji mentioned divorce and Stepmother Ji violently and madly disagreed.
Father Ji angrily threw her a pile of photos, and Stepmother Ji’s face paled instantly.
Chu Zheng ignored their heated fight and directly went upstairs to get her things.
Half an hour later, Father Ji knocked on her door.
Contrary to his usual firm and arrogant countenance, Father Ji looked somewhat haggard and apologetic: “Chu Zheng, dad was wrong and neglected you in the past. I thought that by marrying again, I’d find someone to take care of you, but I never thought that I would only make you suffer even more.”
It was all because that woman and Ji Tongtong usually behaved too well. He didn’t have the slightest suspicion that his daughter might be mistreated.
Chu Zheng was going through her rebellious phase, and whenever she came home, they would placate him and make him believe they were looking out for her when in fact they were gloating at her misfortune as she only suffered more and more grievances.
He never truly looked deeper into his daughter’s behavior and always stopped at the surface of what appeared to be true.
In the past few days, while investigating that mother and daughter pair, he calmly thought over everything that had happened over the years and finally realized how thoroughly he had been deceived by the appearances they put up.
Chu Zheng had warned him that they were after his family’s fortune.
Naturally, he didn’t believe her since his wife never asked him about his company’s affairs.
However, even if she didn’t ask him about his company. ….. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the woman he married had done a lot of secret transactions he was unaware of.
“I hope you’ll forgive dad. Dad knows that he was wrong and made you aggrieved though the past few years. Dad will definitely make it up to you in the future.”
“It’s all in the past.” Chu Zheng answered ambiguously.
Father Ji’s eyes intently reddened in guilt and relief, “En, it’s all in the past. Dad will handle this matter, don’t worry.”
Chu Zheng nodded indifferently.
Father Ji swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue and finally sighed before leaving the room.