Under everyone’s siege and exclusion, Fan Jialuo was expelled from the group of parents. He stared at his phone screen with his brows furrowed tightly.
At this moment, the homeroom teacher’s private chat regained his attention. The other party’s tone was very bad, and she complained as soon as she opened her mouth: [Mr. Fan, I always thought that you were a good person, but I never thought that you would take someone else’s child in front of me, and hurt her. I was almost fired because of this incident! I told you at the school gate that Xu Yiyang accidentally fell down the stairs by himself. You didn’t believe me, and instead believed a child’s unfounded words. Xu Yiyang’s lying behavior also surprised me. It seems that the lack of family education has indeed had an extremely negative impact on him. Mr. Fan, you must pay attention to his mental health.]
Fan Jialuo’s eyes appeared pitch black, and he wrote word by word: [I believe in my child. He is not wrong, nor is he lying.]
The homeroom teacher didn’t reply for a long time, and only after about five minutes did she send a video, saying concisely: [Mr. Fan, you can watch it yourself.]
This was the surveillance footage she requested from the school. The small figure circled in red was Xu Yiyang. He walked back and forth along the corridor, stretching his arms and legs from time to time to relieve his stiff limbs. However, when he reached the stairs, somehow, his foot twisted and he fell head first. It could clearly be seen that the children standing around him kept a certain distance from his and couldn’t have pushed him down, and the culprit he kept insisting on, Xiao Yanling, didn’t appear at all.
From the eyes of ordinary people, the facts were already clear. The entire accident stemmed from a false accusation by Xu Yiyang, and as for the motive? Children didn’t need a motive, and would always tell some lies inexplicably.
However, in Fan Jialuo’s eyes, this video was not like that at all. A black gas twisted into a rope, tightly entangling Xiao Yanling and Xu Yiyang, caught Xu Yiyang’s foot when he was approaching the stairs, causing him to fall from the high floor. The so-called evidence proving Xiao Yanling’s innocence precisely verified that she was the murderer. The mechanism behind her thoughts was actually very similar to a curse, and her ability was comprehensive. If you had to use a phrase to describe it, it would probably be “making her heart’s desires come true.”
Such a terrifying ability could only be mastered by children, because they always had all kinds of fantasies in their hearts. Even if countless people refuted or corrected them, they would never doubt these fantasies. If they thought that they were the king of the world, then they would stick to this ridiculous idea until the day that they truly grew up. A child’s heart could be fragile, but at the same time it could also be very strong.
Xiao Yanling’s fantasy was being a princess, so she had become a princess who needed to be obeyed and sought after by everyone. Those who didn’t follow her or obey her would eventually be erased by her.
Fan Jialuo stared at the video with an obscure light in his eyes.
The homeroom teacher didn’t know that the world she saw was completely different from what Fan Jialuo saw, so she righteously made a request: [Mr. Fan, do you see it clearly? I have a solution for you to listen to, okay? Right now the parents are all very angry. Tomorrow, you should bring Xu Yiyang to school to issue Xiao Yanling a public apology. If the situation is not calmed down, Xu Yiyang is likely to be rejected by all the children. You also know that he has never been very talkative or played with other children. He still has psychological problems.]
[Of course, the school is deeply sympathetic to what happened to him, but it is also true that you and his actions have hurt other children, so we must punish you accordingly. The education of children’s morals is a big issue. Mr. Fan, if you really want the best for your child, then you can’t blindly favor him. You have to teach him right from wrong.]
Fan Jialuo sent a short message: [I understand, tomorrow I will bring Xu Yiyan to the school to go through the transfer procedure. An apology isn’t possible, as he was right.] There was no need for any explanation, because ordinary people simply could not understand the world he had glimpsed.
The homeroom teacher: …
Mr. Fan was really as rigid as he appeared on Weibo!
[In that case, I respect your decision.] In the end, the homeroom teacher could only sigh silently.
After exiting the chat interface, Fan Jialuo stared at his phone for a while. His handsome face showed a rare tangled expression, as if he had encountered some great difficulty. Five minutes later, he finally pursed his lips, dialed a very familiar phone number that he had never touched before, and opened his mouth slightly, unsure of how to organize his words.
It seemed that the other person could feel his entanglement and chuckled quietly. “Fan Jialuo, you don’t go to Three Treasures Hall for nothing. Tell me, what do you want me to do.”
“Good evening, Dr. Song,” Fan Jialuo greeted.
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He didn’t know which of Song Rui’s acupoints that these words hit, but his deep and mellow laughter flowed in a steady stream. He laughed for a while before gathering his emotions, his voice soft and low as he greeted, “Well, good evening.” Then, he waited silently.
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Song Rui finally couldn’t hold back and chuckled. “Okay, you don’t need to tell me more, I can guess what happened. Is the parent group chat up in arms, ready to launch a joint complaint to make Xu Yiyang transfer classes or schools? In order to calm down the situation, the school is asking you to publicly apologize to Xiao Yanling?”
Fan Jialuo: …
Dr. Song’s analytical ability was very powerful.
Song Rui said with certainty, “The fault originally didn’t lie with Xu Yiyang, so it’s impossible for you to take him to apologize. Are you planning to transfer him to another school?”
Fan Jialuo: …
Song Rui immediately promised, “Tomorrow I’ll take you to do the withdrawal procedure, and then we can go home and pick a better school for Xu Yiyang. Don’t worry, I still have a little face in the education field, so I won’t let him become a dropout.”
Fan Jialuo didn’t have to say anything before the matter had been resolved. He couldn’t help showing a grateful and relaxed expression on his face.
“Thanks…”
Song Rui cut off his words again, “You don’t need to thank me, just allow me to visit your house often in the future. In any case, I was once the owner of the frog, so I deserve to have visiting rights.” The threshold effect was used to the fullest extent by him.
As expected, Fan Jialuo agreed without hesitation. “Okay, you’re welcome to come often.”
Song Rui’s deep laughter came from the other end, followed by a gentle “good night.”
“Good night,” Fan Jialuo responded passively. After hanging up the phone, he let out a sigh. He looked at Xu Yiyang, who was lying beside him while looking at him with a pair of wide eyes, and said seriously, “I won’t let you become a dropout, let alone make you apologize for an unwarranted crime. Although our current situation is different from others, learning is equally important to us, do you understand? Even without strong spiritual powers, if we learn well and become like Dr. Song, then we can also be very powerful.”
“Understood! Brother, I will study hard!” Xu Yiyang nodded his head vigorously.
“Good boy.” Just as Fan Jialuo’s expression eased, another urgent call came in.
“I, fuck fuck fuck fuck! Mr. Fan, something serious has happened, quickly check Weibo!”
Without saying a word, Fan Jialuo logged into Weibo, and before he could start searching, he saw his name occupying the first position on the hot search list, with the title—”Fan Jilauo Beats Children.”
Cao Xiaohui’s urgent voice came from his phone. “Teacher Fan, did you see it? How could you bully a small child? There must be a reason, right? I don’t believe what those people on the internet say, you’re not that kind of person! But the current situation is very unfavorable for us! In the entertainment industry, there are two things that should never be touched: one is drugs, and the other is children. This video has been spread all over the internet. If you hit your own child, we could still help you, but the problem is that you hit someone else’s child, and that child is not a vegetarian. She’s a well-known child model and has millions of fans on Weibo, mother fans, father fans, brother fans, sister fans, and so on. Her reputation is better than yours!”
Cao Xiaohui took a breath and continued, “The matter of you cursing Fan Kaixuan and Su Fengxi before still isn’t over, and now that this has happened, netizens have strong doubts about your character, and are now madly attacking your social media accounts and our company’s official website. Those who are standing up for you are also being affected and scolded. The impact of this incident is so bad that the Chengxi Police Branch has also issued a case announcement to confirm the rumors. Mr. Fan, what should we do now? Your fan count is dropping like crazy!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he let out a miserable cry again and said angrily, “Why are people so bad nowadays! Mr. Fan, what you said in the parent group was published on the internet by a marketing account, and now the public opinion is overwhelmingly against you. They say that you’ve gone off the deep end and really consider yourself a psychic. You released a few prophecies from time to time, and now you’re even throwing dirty water on innocent children. They say that you have a problem with your brain and should go to a mental hospital. Fuck that! These people are the ones with the real brain problems, do they know the truth? Dam, what kind of world is this?”
Fan Jialuo listened quietly as Cao Xiaohui vented, and didn’t express his opinion. He slowly scrolled through his Weibo page and found that the vast majority of netizens attacking him were asking for him to come forward and apologize ot Xiao Yanling’s family, and also viciously cursed Xu Yiyang, saying that he would also be a psychopath or murderer in the future.
[Apologize! As a public figure, don’t you even feel that sense of responsibility?]
[Hurting an innocent child, you have lost your humanity!]
[No wonder you adopted Xu Yiyang, your natures are equally vicious!]
[Apologize or get out of the entertainment industry!]
[Apology or not, you have to get out! Society will not tolerate scum like you!]
The netizens’ comments had become extremely fierce, and even those who tried their best to defend Fan Jialuo before were being madly attacked by them. This was naturally being driven by someone behind the scene, but the video was also to blame. There was no way to wash away this matter, so Fan Jialuo didn’t care too much about it.
He only posted a simple sentence: [My child is not wrong, so there’s no need to apologize. Evil things will continue to happen around evil children. Only time will tell who is right and who is wrong, so I’m done with this.] He did not warn the public or attempt to dissuade the parents of Year 4 Class 2, because it was useless.
Cao Xiaohui soon called again, but his mood had completely calmed down. “Mr. Fan, is there something wrong with that child? Since you said so, we won’t apologize. Mr. Zhao has also said that the company will always support you! Director song just called and said that ‘The World of Strange People’ will never let you quit because of this.”
Fan Jialuo smiled softly. “Okay, thank you.”
As soon as he had put down the phone, one WeChat message after another popped up:
Dr. Song: [Although I know you don’t need it, I still have to send this sentence of consolation as proof of our friendship.]
Zhao Wenyan: [Don’t worry about all that crap out there, just do what you should do. I’m looking for who is messing with you, I’ll find out and kill them!]
Bai Mu: [Mr. Fan, I believe you wouldn’t do that kind of thing.]
Song Wennuan: [What the hell is that kid?]
Yaya: [Teacher Fan, don’t worry about dragging us down, we’ll always support you!]
Liao Fang: [Mr. Fan, why don’t you send that child to our branch office? We’ll definitely handle this case seriously, and won’t let that child go easily. I know of many crimes committed by children, such as the James Bulger murder which caused a sensation in the UK. The perpetrators were two 10 year old boys. They used extremely cruel methods to abuse a 2 year old boy to death, and afterwards knew to abandon the boy’s body on the railway tracks, trying to use the train accident to cover up their crimes. After seeing such cases, I know that not every child is innocent. Mr. Fan, I know better than anyone how cruel naive children can be, so I believe you! Wrong is wrong and right is right, there’s no need to apologize!]
Similar text messages kept pouring in: I support you, I trust you, don’t worry about us, don’t apologize…
No one was fooled by that seemingly real video. Even if they would become enemies with the world, they always believed in what they saw and felt with their own eyes.
Fan Jialuo shook his head helplessly, but the corners of his mouth silently curled up in a smile.
This was why he loved life so much…
Meanwhile, Wen Guiyun, who realized that things were getting worse and worse, was completely panicked. Of course she couldn’t release those chat records. She was afraid that others would find out about her daughter’s abnormality, so how could she provoke the media? She didn’t even dare to speak up in the parents’ group.
Her frightened expression aroused her husband Xiao Runmin’s suspicions, so he grabbed her phone and checked her chat records, asking impatiently, “How long are you going to protect her? She already killed Doudou and broke another child’s hand. Her behavior will only grow increasingly worse and out of control until she becomes a murderer! Money, money, money, you only have money in your eyes. If it wasn’t for your compliance, Lingling wouldn’t have become what she is today! You’ve raised her to be a demon! Mr. Fan can help us, I want to take Lingling to see him!”
Xiao Runmin threw the phone back into his wife’s arms and went to pull on his daughter, who was sitting in another room and doing her homework.
“Daddy, what are you doing?” Xiao Yanling screamed in shock.
Wen Guiyun rushed forward and hugged her husband’s arm tightly. “No, you can’t send your daughter there! We don’t even know that Fan Jialuo, so how can we know whether he’s a good or bad guy? I’ll teach my daughter well, husband, please, just give her one more chance! She’s still young, so everything will be fine when she understands!”
“Will she understand? Does she know what she did wrong?” Xiao Runmin squatted down and clamped his daughter’s shoulders, asking sharply, “Xiao Yanling, tell me, what did you do wrong today?”
In response, he got his daughter’s puzzled gaze. She even tilted her head, showing an expression that seemed innocent, but was heavily disguised. She knew how to deceive others too well.
Xiao Runmin smiled sadly and stood up, preparing to forcefully drag his daughter away. “I’m taking her to see Fan Jialuo, she can’t go on like this!”
It was only after hearing the name of Fan Jialuo twice that Xiao Yanling finally realized what her father was going to do, so she struggled frantically and screamed shrilly, “I won’t go, Dad, let go of me! You can’t hand me over to that person, he’ll kill me! Dad, let go, Dad, don’t you love me anymore?”
How could Xiao Runmin not love her? It was because of love that he had to do this.
However, his legs were firmly held by his wife and he was unable to move.
She raised her head and burst into tears. “Husband, I beg you not to take Lingling away! Do you know how Fan Jilauo will treat Lingling? What if his so-called solution is to kill our daughter? Didn’t you see the surveillance footage? He almost choked our daughter to death today! Think about it again, there must be another solution. We can take Lingling to a psychiatrist, a psychiatrist can really help her. Husband, let’s try seeing a doctor first, okay? If that doesn’t work, then let’s go find Fan Jialuo, husband, I beg you!”
Xiao Runmin’s cold expression loosened.
Xiao Yanling immediately broke free from his iron-like grip and burrowed into her mother’s embrace. In a corner where no one could see her, her bloodshot eyes burst out with a chilling hatred.
Yeesh! This little girl is scary!!
Will she do something to her father? What a scary kid.
Ah no! Protect the dad!
Thanks for the chapter <3
Dad is on radar now
Will the mother finally send her to Fan Jialuo if husband will be killed ir injured? How can she teach her child if she herself is afraid of her own daughter.