Negative Marketing

If you couldn't afford to provoke them, couldn't you at least avoid them?

Seeing that they were about to leave, Wen Yao reached out and grabbed Xu Han's stroller. Afraid she might hurt Koukou, Xu Han was about to pick him up when Wen Yao suddenly clutched her stomach and cried out, "Ow!"

The man beside her quickly supported her and asked anxiously, "Yaoyao, what's wrong?"

"She hit me with the stroller. Ow, it hurts."

Xu Han: "..."

Tang Yueyue immediately flew into a rage. "Our stroller was moving backward. How could it have hit you? Even staging a scam should make some sense, Miss Wen!"

"You deliberately hit a pregnant woman and still won't admit it. You say I'm staging a scam? I'm not stupid enough to joke around with my child." Wen Yao clutched her stomach in pain, as though she had truly been hit badly.

This was a public place, and Wen Yao was not speaking quietly. Before long, several onlookers had gathered, along with a sales assistant.

Once there were more people around, Wen Yao began twisting the truth, accusing Xu Han and the others of deliberately hitting a pregnant woman. She made it sound so convincing that everyone looked at Xu Han and the others strangely. Some bystanders even took out their phones to record.

Afraid Koukou had been frightened, Xu Han hurriedly picked him up. Tang Yueyue was furious and argued with Wen Yao for a few moments, only for the other woman to start making a scene and accuse her of bullying a pregnant woman.

"Miss Wen, don't rush to cry injustice," Xu Han said while holding Koukou. Unlike Tang Yueyue, who had a temper that ignited at the slightest provocation, she remained calm. "If I'm not mistaken, this store has surveillance cameras. Why don't we wait for the manager and have him pull up the footage? Then we can see whether we hit you or whether you deliberately ran into me to frighten my child."

Of course Wen Yao knew the mall had surveillance cameras, but with her powerful husband backing her, she was not afraid at all.

She was only a little surprised. When had Qiao Wanqing become so calm and clever? She had once been so stupid that people thought she was all looks and no brains. That was precisely why Wen Yao had dared to bully her like this.

Seeing that she remained silent, Xu Han said, "Miss Wen, don't be afraid. If I hit you, even a little, I will compensate you and apologize. The same goes for you."

"Why would I be afraid? You were the one who hit me." Wen Yao sounded perfectly self-righteous, still clutching her stomach. "Ow."

Only then did Xu Han realize, from Wen Yao's arrogant manner, that the other woman had no intention of reasoning with her at all.

She frowned. This was going to be troublesome.

Author's Note:

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone~

There won't be much of the city storyline. They'll be heading back next chapter.

Black Marketing

As soon as the manager heard that a pregnant woman had been injured, he hurried over. The scene gave him a headache: one was a pregnant woman, while the other was a young mother holding a baby only a few months old. No matter who was right or wrong, neither would be easy to handle.

He said awkwardly, "Um, I'm the manager here. What happened between you two, ladies?"

Tang Yueyue was not someone to be pushed around. After hearing Xu Han's words, she immediately spoke with confidence. "It's not a major dispute. Sorry for the trouble, but could you pull up the store's surveillance footage? This lady says we deliberately hit her with a stroller. I'd like to see just how tricky the angle was for us to hit her so badly."

Xu Han knew that, at a time like this, she could lose anything but momentum. Otherwise, Wen Yao would only become more arrogant. She said coldly, "I know Miss Wen has powerful backing and can twist black into white, but if this really blows up, it's hard to say who should fear whom. Isn't that right, Mr. Qi?"

Mr. Qi was Wen Yao's husband. He frowned slightly.

The manager was truly afraid of this situation. Hearing that reviewing the cameras could solve it, he said, "Then I'll apply to retrieve the footage right away. Ma'am..."

Seeing how uncomfortable Wen Yao appeared, he asked, "Would you like to sit down up front for a while? Should I call an ambulance for you?"

Wen Yao was about to speak, but her husband cut in first. "No need. It was just a bump, nothing serious. This young lady just needs to be more careful in the future. We'll be leaving now."

Wen Yao immediately looked displeased and was about to say something, but her husband glanced at her and said heavily, "Yaoyao, behave."

Wen Yao froze, then gave an unwilling "Oh."

But Tang Yueyue was not the type to let things go just because she had the upper hand. Seeing him support Wen Yao as they prepared to leave, she said indignantly, "Don't make yourselves sound so generous. Your wife was obviously trying to stage a scam. If there hadn't been footage, who knows how much money you would've tried to extort?"

Seeing that the matter might be resolved easily, the manager immediately stepped in to smooth things over. "Miss, this lady is about to give birth. Let's just consider it doing a good deed and not pursue this any further, all right?"

Tang Yueyue laughed in anger. "You really are generous. Our child was frightened today too. How about you do a good deed and waive our bill?"

Manager: "..."

In the end, to settle the matter, the manager applied an eighty-eight percent discount to their purchases. Only then did Tang Yueyue reluctantly let it go.

In truth, the two of them had not bought much anyway. They were mainly no longer in the mood to shop. Tang Yueyue carried a bag of things and sighed. "Sigh, I was hoping to take the chance to extort that shameless couple."

Xu Han: "..."

Xu Han thought the matter had ended there, but she had no idea which busybody had uploaded the video online. It was reposted by a marketing account that loved stirring up trouble, and it quickly entered the public eye.

Weibo never lacked gossip-hungry spectators. The video featured both a pregnant woman and a baby only a few months old, so the controversy was obvious. The topic's popularity rose rapidly.

A thousand readers had a thousand Hamlets, and Weibo was full of contrarians and trolls. Some sided with the pregnant woman, while others sided with Qiao Wanqing and her group. The two sides cursed at each other until the matter even made the trending searches.

Some people even assumed Xu Han was some kind of actress or internet celebrity, because she was simply too beautiful. That then drew a group of misogynists who attacked her appearance, calling her a plastic-surgery freak, a breast-implant freak, and so on.

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