She sensed the oppressive pressure.
Li Yin panicked a little.
She was trying to figure out how to smooth things over.
But before she could think of anything, Dou Hua, who had been silent for a moment behind her, suddenly let out a series of cold sneers.
"Who did I think it was? So it's you, the mother and daughter with no father and no husband!"
A child's behavior was, more often than not, influenced by adults.
The things Chen Hao had called Tang Yao had obviously mostly been learned from Dou Hua.
As for how Dou Hua had learned about the situation, that went back to Chen Hao himself.
On the first day of school, the adorable Tang Yao had become the center of attention in the entire class.
Chen Hao had wanted to sit beside Tang Yao, but Tang Yao had not wanted to. She had wanted to sit with another little girl.
After being rejected, Chen Hao, though still so young, had already become vicious inside under Dou Hua's influence. When he got home, he spoke badly of Tang Yao to Dou Hua.
Everyone else had both their mother and father take them to school, while Tang Yao only had her mother. She definitely had no father.
Doting on her son, Dou Hua followed his lead after hearing that. All sorts of vile words came out of her mouth, and Chen Hao learned them all.
And ever since kindergarten had started, Tang Yao's father had never appeared.
That only made Chen Hao even more brazen and arrogant, leading to the situation today...
"Who did I think it was? So it's you, the mother and daughter with no father and no husband!"
Dou Hua sneered. "Was my son wrong?"
"Isn't she just a child without a father?"
"She got beaten for telling the truth. What's wrong with making you apologize?"
"Like mother, like daughter."
She gave a mocking laugh, then glanced at Tang Chen with contempt. "You found some wild pretty-boy to pretend to be her father? How cheap. No wonder you raised such an ill-mannered daughter!"
Dou Hua's words gave Li Yin, who had been sweating nervously and at a loss, something to rely on.
She quickly chimed in, "Yaoyao's mom, it's not that I'm ignoring Yaoyao. But there are so many children in the kindergarten, as you can see. How could I possibly have the time to keep watching your Yaoyao all the time?"
She wore a smile, but her tone was dripping with sarcasm.
Shen Qingyan's lips trembled with rage.
Just then,
she felt Tang Chen gently squeeze the hand he was holding.
Tang Chen turned and gave her a gentle look, calming her down considerably. Then he reached out and rubbed the little girl's head before placing her in Shen Qingyan's arms. "Protect Mommy. Daddy is going to beat up the bad guys!"
Tang Yao nodded her little head hard, earnest and resolute.
"Okay!"
Tang Chen turned back around.
The instant he did, his expression became incomparably dark and cold.
A powerful, invisible pressure spread through the air!
Tang Chen's aura of one who held life and death in his hands was nothing Shen Qingyan could compare to.
It was like a dog seeing a butcher who sold dog meat.
One glance alone was enough to make the dog collapse to the ground and tremble.
Chen Hao, who had already stopped crying, was so frightened that he started crying again...
Dou Hua immediately lost all her earlier arrogance and hid behind Chen Xianyun.
Chen Xianyun wanted to hide too, but there was no one left to stand in front of him. He could only face Tang Chen head-on.
Pointing at Tang Chen, he shouted angrily, "What? Want to fight? Let me tell you, I'm a public servant. If you dare lay a finger on me, I'll make sure you end up behind bars!"
"A public servant?"
Tang Chen stared at him coldly. "Heh. Trash like you deserves to hold public office?"
Tang Chen's laugh made Chen Xianyun feel deeply humiliated.
His rage flared at once as he pointed at Tang Chen. "You dare insult a public servant..."
"Stop waving a chicken feather around like it's an imperial decree."
Before he could finish, Tang Chen cut him off coldly.
"The Qing Dynasty has been gone for a long time."
"Under today's laws, everyone is equal."
"If insulting you is a crime..."
"Then your wife and son should have been beheaded long ago."
"Waaah!"
Chen Hao suddenly burst into tears. "Mom, I don't want to be beheaded! I don't want to..."
Behind them,
Tang Yao saw this and burst into laughter through her tears. Leaning against Shen Qingyan's ear, she whispered, "What an idiot!"
"But... Daddy looks so gentle. How can he scare someone into crying?"
What she did not know was that
Tang Chen's gentleness was something that rarely appeared!
"Don't cry, my precious son..."
Dou Hua hurriedly comforted her son, then raised her head and angrily shouted at Chen Xianyun, "Chen Xianyun, he scared your son like this! Why are you still standing there?"
Chen Xianyun froze. What else was he supposed to do if not stand there? Was he supposed to go fight Tang Chen?
He did not think his five-foot-six frame stood a chance against Tang Chen.
"For the sake of your pride, you're making your husband take a risk and do something he has no chance of winning. Marrying a woman like you is truly pathetic."
Tang Chen shook his head. "Only a shrew like you could raise a son who is so vicious at such a young age."
"He grew up looking this ugly. Do his classmates go around talking about how ugly he is every day and tell everyone not to play with him?"
"A piece of trash full of flaws jumped out to mock my daughter over one tiny flaw."
"How ridiculous!"
"And one more thing."
Tang Chen looked at Dou Hua with calm, icy, profound eyes. "How do you, someone who raised garbage, have the nerve to say my daughter has no manners?"
"Are you... worthy?"
Tang Chen's words slammed into Dou Hua's ears like a hammer...
Dou Hua felt a numb sensation shoot straight to the top of her head.
That was her blood pressure rising!
She swayed, clutched her chest, and gasped heavily. Her vision went black, and she nearly fainted.
"Daddy is amazing!"
Tang Yao excitedly wrapped her arms around Shen Qingyan's neck.
Looking at Tang Chen's back, more than half of Shen Qingyan's anger faded away. A powerful sense of security rose within her, accompanied by a deep warmth.
So this was what it felt like to be protected!
At that moment,
her wavering heart suddenly became firm.
She wanted to bravely face her own feelings!
Was she afraid?
She still was!
But she felt Tang Chen was worth taking a gamble on.
Even if losing meant being shattered to pieces and falling once again into that pitch-black abyss...
Dou Hua, who had nearly died from being unable to catch her breath, pointed at Tang Chen and screamed hysterically, "You dare insult me!?"
"You actually dare insult me!?"
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