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Chapter 407: Chapter 0407: The Abused Girl
Going to work was a very busy affair for others, but for Ye Xunhuan, it was an extremely dull and tedious matter; he had absolutely nothing to do!
After work, Ye Xunhuan had intended to go directly to the hospital to see Qiu Ruoxi, but then he thought that Mei Hanqing and several other department heads from the company would be visiting Qiu Ruoxi.
Why not just wait until it got dark to go?
Out of boredom, Ye Xunhuan decided to drive to the bar for a change of pace, but who would have thought that as soon as he turned the corner, a pretty girl darted out from the green belt beside the road, startling Ye Xunhuan so much that he hastily braked!
As soon as the car stopped, the girl fell to the ground and started emitting painful moans.
This took Ye Xunhuan aback!
What the hell?
What’s going on?
He clearly hadn’t hit her, so how did she end up on the ground!
Could he possibly have encountered a scammer?
Scammer or not, Ye Xunhuan still got out of the car.
"Little girl, are you alright?" Ye Xunhuan asked, looking down at the girl on the ground.
The girl was not very old, her face still childishly delicate with a hint of youthful naivety. Her black, shiny eyes sparkled like black jewels. She appeared to be about fourteen or fifteen years old, very pretty, definitely a beauty in the making.
"My leg... my leg..." The girl covered her leg, wailing as if Ye Xunhuan had broken it!
The girl’s scream immediately attracted many passersby, who gathered around and started pointing fingers at Ye Xunhuan while looking sympathetically at the little girl on the ground.
Meanwhile, Ye Xunhuan was stunned. Others might not know, but he was sure that he hadn’t hit the little girl.
Damn, was he really so unlucky to run into a scam?
"It hurts, it hurts so much..." The girl not only showed a face of pain, but tears also began to swirl in her eyes: "You hit me... you hit me..."
Since the girl was quite young and now that tears would fall from her eyes whenever she blinked, looking just like pearls slipping from a broken string, she immediately gained everyone’s sympathy, with people pointing at Ye Xunhuan.
If Ye Xunhuan had actually hit the girl, then being pointed at would have been fair, but he clearly hadn’t hit her!
Yet Ye Xunhuan knew that if he tried to defend himself at this moment, it would only incite public anger, so he quickly crouched down and looked at the little girl with a concerned expression, saying, "Is it here?"
As he spoke, Ye Xunhuan reached out to touch the girl’s leg!
Just as he touched her, the girl immediately let out a high-pitched scream: "Ah, it hurts so much..."
Ye Xunhuan was instantly covered with a look of frustration. He had barely touched her, was it necessary to exaggerate like that?
But Ye Xunhuan did not stop there. Instead, he gripped the girl’s leg and gently squeezed. The pain made the girl gasp and she cried out in agony.
Yet this time, she genuinely cried out in pain. Although Ye Xunhuan did not exert much force, the strength in his hands was not something ordinary people could withstand, especially not a little girl!
"Are you sure you want to continue playing this game?" Ye Xunhuan said softly, "If you keep this up, I might really break your leg and then take you to the hospital..."
The girl immediately burst into tears: "You hit me, and now you’re threatening me..."
Ye Xunhuan’s expression darkened; he had underestimated this little girl.
At that moment, the crowd was filled with an accusatory atmosphere directed at Ye Xunhuan, as if in this moment, he had become a monster despised by both humans and gods!
"You hit me, and then you threatened me, I can’t live, I can’t live anymore..."
This girl must have graduated from a film academy, right?
Such acting skills, tsk tsk...
"Little girl, don’t be afraid, we’ll help you call the police, let the police help you, we’ll all be your witnesses..."
"Yes, call the police, call the police..."
Ye Xunhuan glanced at the little girl and said, "If you don’t get up soon, when the police arrive, you’ll be taken away. The charge will be extortion. Yes, you might not be of age yet, but you could still be detained for a few days..."
Hearing Ye Xunhuan’s words, the little girl immediately clung to Ye Xunhuan’s legs: "Daddy, I know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have lied to you, but you can’t just abandon me..."
The crowd was stunned. What the hell was happening?
How did the situation suddenly change?
"Daddy, I know I’m not your biological child and you don’t love me. You’re afraid that in the future, I’ll compete with the child you and Mom will have for the inheritance. You want to drive me out, but I promise I will never compete with your child with Mom for the inheritance. I’ll do as you say; I will never tell anyone that you married Mom for her money..."
"Please stop mistreating me when Mom is away on business trips. Don’t beat me, okay? The next time you bring other women home, I absolutely won’t tell Mom. You can do whatever you want; I know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have mocked you, and I definitely shouldn’t have pretended to be hit by your car..."
The crowd, after hearing the girl’s words, seemed to understand something.
Ye Xunhuan had married this little girl’s mother, who was very wealthy, but frequently had to travel on business. Meanwhile, Ye Xunhuan was a freeloader who married the little girl’s mother for her money.
But when the girl’s mother was away, Ye Xunhuan did as he pleased, mistreating the little girl and spending his wife’s money on other women!
The little girl must have been desperate to come up with such a plan to pretend to be a scam victim!
The little girl clung to Ye Xunhuan’s legs, crying and shaking him, seemingly overwhelmed with genuine emotion.
"Daddy, I was wrong, I truly know I was wrong. I pretended to be hit by your car because I want to come home. I don’t want to be out on the streets; please let me come back home, I really will be good..."
The little girl cried her heart out, and the bystanders began to murmur, cursing that the little girl’s mother had encountered a scumbag, a beast in human clothing!
And Ye Xunhuan was at a loss, couldn’t help but marvel at such impressive acting, not to mention how smoothly the story had been fabricated!
First pretending to be a scam victim, and when that failed, she promptly played the sympathy and emotional distress cards, preventing the crowd from getting angry at the girl for lying. Instead, they grew increasingly sympathetic toward her.
"Young man, living off a woman is one thing, but isn’t it too much to mistreat her daughter when her mother is not at home?"
"Little girl, what’s your mom’s phone number? We’ll call her and tell her..."
"It won’t work, my Mom won’t believe it; she only trusts my Dad!" The little girl said with a face full of grievance, tears welling in her eyes: "As long as Dad lets me come home, I’ll be satisfied!"
The crowd, after hearing the little girl’s words, couldn’t help but feel a surge of sympathy for this poor child.
At that moment, the crowd grew increasingly displeased with Ye Xunhuan, some appearing ready to cripple him!
After witnessing this scene, Ye Xunhuan’s heart skipped a beat, thinking, Damn, they aren’t going to lay hands on me, are they?
