By the time the police arrived, the commotion had more or less died down.
Little Bai had been soothed after sobbing his heart out, and Fang Yun and Auntie Huang had hauled Li Hao up after he had gone flying. The atmosphere was still tense, but it was no longer as explosive as it had been at first.
Ding Ding was furious. He rolled an egg Fang Yun had just boiled in the electric kettle over the bump on Little Bai's head, cursing nonstop.
Li Hao slumped in a chair, panting heavily without a word.
"What happened? Who called the police?"
"I did!"
Fang Yun stepped forward at that, pointing at Li Hao in the chair as she spoke with righteous indignation.
"Officer, this man barged into our company for no reason and even hit one of our people!"
Li Hao immediately grew agitated. "Stop talking nonsense! I came to reason with Ding Ding. He was the one who ran into me first!"
"Bullshit!" Ding Ding flared up. "He ran into you himself, and you shoved him hard enough to leave that huge bump? I don't believe that for a second. Come here..."
"Brother Ding, Brother Ding!"
Bai Congming was very afraid of the police. If he got locked up in a pitch-black little room, Brother Ding would never see him again.
"No fighting! We're not fighting!"
"..."
Ding Ding reluctantly sat down and looked toward the two officers.
"Officers, you can see for yourselves. At home, I don't even let our boy sweep the floor for fear he'll bump into something and hurt himself. Yet I bring him to my own company, and someone hits him! I insist on holding him accountable!"
The two officers exchanged a glance. One went to ask property management for the surveillance footage, while