"The boss has a daughter?"
Liu Ying's eyes widened in shock. "The boss doesn't even have a woman. Where did a daughter come from?"
"That starts with the boss's first day back home."
"Honestly, fate can be incredibly mysterious sometimes."
"The day the boss arrived downstairs, a little girl grabbed him..."
Liu An briefly told Liu Ying about everything that had happened over the past few days.
Liu Ying was utterly dumbfounded, looking like her worldview had been shattered for an entire year...
The car stopped at the kindergarten entrance, and Shen Qingyan practically ran inside.
Not long after entering the kindergarten,
Shen Qingyan saw Tang Yao, Tang Yao's teacher Li Yin, a middle-aged woman in her thirties, and a skinny little boy with a pointed mouth and monkey-like cheeks.
Seeing that Tang Yao did not appear to be injured, Shen Qingyan finally let out a long sigh of relief.
The little boy was crying and sniffling.
Tang Yao was not crying. She merely stood there, her little face full of stubbornness.
"Yaoyao."
Shen Qingyan called out.
Hearing her voice, the little girl turned around.
The moment she saw her mother, she sniffed hard and pumped her little legs as she ran over, throwing her arms around Shen Qingyan's leg...
The instant she hugged Shen Qingyan,
tears filled the little girl's eyes.
But she did not cry.
Though tears swirled in her eyes, Tang Yao refused to let even one fall.
Seeing her daughter like this,
Shen Qingyan's heart nearly broke.
She rubbed Tang Yao's little head, then looked up at Teacher Li Yin and asked, "Teacher Li, what exactly happened?"
"Well..."
Li Yin adjusted her rimless glasses and was about to speak when a middle-aged couple hurried in.
The husband and wife looked remarkably alike. Both had prominent cheekbones, pointed chins, triangular faces, and small eyes. They looked extremely similar to the skinny little boy.
The moment they entered,
the middle-aged woman saw the boy bawling and immediately looked heartbroken. She rushed over. "My precious son, what happened? Who bullied you? Tell Mommy!"
"Good boy, don't be afraid. Your mother and father will stand up for you!" the man said as he walked over to comfort the boy.
Already covered in tears and snot, the little boy heard his parents comforting him and immediately buried his head in his mother's arms. His wailing became even more heart-wrenching and hysterical.
Shen Qingyan's willow-like brows drew tightly together.
Even for the sake of her child, it was unpleasant that they spoke like that before even finding out what had happened.
"Sweetheart, don't cry. Don't cry."
As the middle-aged woman soothed the boy, she looked up at the teacher. "Teacher Li, what exactly happened? Aren't you going to give us an explanation?"
Seeing how fierce the woman was, Li Yin swallowed nervously. "Here's what happened."
"During activity class, I went to get yogurt for the children. When I came back, I saw... Tang Yao holding a little stool and chasing Chen Hao, trying to hit him. Fortunately, we stopped them in time, so nothing serious happened. But Chen Hao was badly frightened, and that is how things became like this."
"What?!"
Hearing Li Yin's words, Chen Hao's mother, Dou Hua, immediately flew into a rage.
She looked around.
When she saw Shen Qingyan standing there, she realized that the little girl clinging to Shen Qingyan's leg was Tang Yao. She immediately pointed at the girl and shrieked.
"You're Tang Yao? You dared to hit my Chen Hao with a stool? You little brat, how could you be so vicious? Have you no respect for anyone?!"
Tang Yao clung tightly to Shen Qingyan's leg. Her little face was pale, and her eyes were filled with fear.
Shen Qingyan held her tightly, then turned to Dou Hua and said coldly, "Ma'am, before we have even figured out what happened, isn't it inappropriate for you to speak to a child like that?"
"I said it. So what?"
Dou Hua pointed at Shen Qingyan's nose. "Your child hit my son. She deserves to be scolded!"
"You..."
Shen Qingyan's lips trembled with anger.
"Enough, enough!"
Seeing the situation escalating, Li Yin hurriedly stepped forward.
"This is not such a big deal. There is no need for you two parents to argue like this. Let's settle it peacefully. Peacefully!"
"How are we supposed to settle it peacefully? Tell me, how?"
Dou Hua rolled up her sleeves with a fierce expression, as though she had shifted her anger toward Li Yin and was about to fight her.
Li Yin was startled. She forced out two ingratiating smiles, then turned to Shen Qingyan. "Um, Yaoyao's mother, Yaoyao was at fault first in this matter. Why don't you have Yaoyao apologize to Haohao? Then we can let this matter go. What do you think?"
"I don't think that is acceptable."
Shen Qingyan coldly rejected Li Yin's suggestion. "I know my daughter. I believe she would not attack someone for no reason. There must be a reason for this."
She knew that making Tang Yao apologize without understanding the situation would hurt her deeply.
She crouched down and gently rubbed the top of the little girl's head, which she had spent a long time carefully combing for her that morning. "Yaoyao, tell Mommy what happened. Why did you hit him?"
Tears shimmered in Tang Yao's big eyes. Pursing her lips, she leaned close to Shen Qingyan's ear and whispered, "Mommy, let's go. I don't want to stay here anymore..."
She did not dare to say it.
Because she was afraid.
She was afraid Shen Qingyan would be bullied, afraid that she would cause trouble for her mother...
"Yaoyao, don't be afraid. It's okay. Tell Mommy why."
Tang Yao was her own flesh and blood. How could Shen Qingyan not understand what her daughter was thinking? Her nose stung, and she softened her voice even further.
But Tang Yao merely lay against her shoulder, repeating the same words. "Mommy, let's go. Yaoyao wants to go home."
Dou Hua sneered from the side. "You believe your daughter would not do something for no reason? Then say it!"
"Does she not want to say it, does she not dare to say it, or did she simply bully my son and have nothing to say?"
Shen Qingyan ignored her and gently stroked Tang Yao's back, soothing her.
"I know why Yaoyao hit Haohao..."
At that moment, a little girl suddenly stood up and raised her hand.
"You know? Why?" Li Yin asked.
The little girl continued, "I told Yaoyao to come play with us, but Haohao would not allow it. He said he would not play with children who did not have fathers, and he would not let us play with children who did not have fathers either."
"Yaoyao never said anything when this happened before. But this time, she stood up and loudly said that she had a father. Then Haohao cursed at Yaoyao and said her father had long been dead, and told her to dig her father out of his grave. Then Yaoyao grabbed a chair and chased after him."
The child's tender voice struck Shen Qingyan's ears like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. Her eyes visibly reddened.
When Tang Chen heard the little girl's words,
his heart suddenly clenched.
He suddenly remembered Tang Yao pretending to be sick a few days ago...
So...
this was why the little girl had not wanted to come to kindergarten...
Tang Chen's gaze grew increasingly cold as he clenched his fists tightly.
He was truly furious!
"Mommy, let's go!"
Tang Yao tugged hard on Shen Qingyan's hand and choked out softly.
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