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"You all feel sorry for him, right?" She glanced mockingly at the group at the door. "Since that's the case, why are you so kind-hearted..."

"How about we just help this swindler pay back the money he cheated out of my friend?"

"..."

The scene fell silent. Those who had just been urging Li Kui to be more generous and not hold a grudge huddled in the crowd, too afraid to speak.

However, their silence didn't mean Ye Mo wouldn't speak. She directly called out, "That... auntie with curly hair wearing a blue knitted cardigan, and that grandpa in the gray sweater, and..."

She pointed out several people one by one, and those she mentioned subconsciously looked down at their clothes, then all instinctively tried to hide behind others.

Ye Mo said, "Didn't you just advise my friend to be more generous and forgiving? You all spoke so readily just now, why don't you help this swindler pay back the money... It's not much, just a few hundred thousand in total, you can definitely afford it. I think the jade bracelet on this aunt's wrist is worth more than that."

"Why should we help him pay it back?" the woman with curly hair and a blue knitted shirt asked instinctively.

Ye Mo remained calm and composed, saying in a nonchalant tone, "Didn't you yourselves say that this swindler's family is in such dire straits, and that you told my friend not to be petty and to be generous... You made me think you were incredibly generous."

Towards the end, Ye Mo's tone turned sarcastic, "In the end, it's just that the needle didn't prick you. You weren't the ones who got swindled, so you don't know the pain, do you?"

"We were just saying, why are you so unreasonable?" someone muttered, looking rather disgruntled. "Don't you know how to respect your elders and care for the young?"

Ye Mo rolled his eyes and said, "Don't give me that nonsense. Let me tell you, I have no morals, and my mouth is filthy; I really need to swear to clean my mouth."

She said to Li Kui earnestly, "As the saying goes, if you have no morals, no one can morally blackmail you, understand?"

Li Kui: "... Oh, oh."

[Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter! This woman is practically my mouth mush. Those people were just talking without any real experience, I almost got so angry I burst! I'm really worried that guy will actually forgive this liar.]

[This sister is right. They don't know the pain unless the needle pricks them. They're not the ones being deceived, so they have the nerve to pretend to be generous.]

[I was so angry just watching this! I've never seen anyone plead for a scammer these days.]

I wish I were there; I would have cursed these people to death!

[... Wait, don't you guys think that girl wearing a mask looks familiar? She looks a lot like my long-lost wife.]

[Like my long-lost wife +1, here's the code, Mo Bao?]

[Go away, don't try to associate yourself with celebrities or fans. Don't just grab anyone and say they look like your older sister... Does everyone in the world look like your older sister?]

Ye Mo had no idea that his own

Vest

It's already in a precarious situation, on the verge of being stripped of its power.

After silencing those pretentious people, she turned and looked indifferently at Hong Youtian kneeling on the ground.

Hong Youtian, who was being stared at, felt a chill run down his spine. He subconsciously straightened his back and looked at Ye Mo with trepidation, like a criminal waiting for a judge to pronounce his sentence.

But the next second, Hong Youtian came to his senses: Wait, why is he so afraid of this woman in front of him?

Thinking this way, he suddenly became confident again, but as soon as he met Ye Mo's gaze, the courage that had just risen in his heart vanished instantly, and he became timid and shrinking back.

Ye Mo looked at him coldly and said, "Considering your family's difficult situation, we won't call the police. Just return what you swindled from my friend, and that will be fine."

She stared at Hong Youtian, a half-smile on her face, and said, "What, you don't think that just because you cry and wail a few times, we'll soften and give up on this matter, and won't let you return your things?"

Upon hearing this, Hong Youtian looked embarrassed and said, "How could that be? How could I have such a thought? It's just that I took all those things to exchange for money and paid for my mother's medical expenses at the hospital..."

"Then there's nothing we can do," Ye Mo said calmly. "We'll have to call the police."

Hong Youtian's expression changed drastically, and he instinctively cried out, "No! Don't call the police! I beg you, please don't call the police! If you call the police and I get arrested, what will happen to my seriously ill mother and my child?"

As he spoke, tears streamed down his face as he pleaded, "Brother, please, please let me go!"

"You've said so much, but you haven't mentioned repaying the money even once." Ye Mo remained unmoved and said, "No matter how difficult your family's situation is, that's no excuse for you to lie... You should know that every penny you swindled from my friend was hard-earned money, his blood and sweat. You swindled it away with just a few words, and now you still want to lie to him."

Ye Mo directly exposed his lie. "The watch you're wearing is the latest KF model; it costs 23,000 yuan..."

As soon as Ye Mo said this, everyone's eyes fell on Hong Youtian's wrist. Hong Youtian subconsciously reached out and covered the watch on his wrist, and cold sweat almost dripped down his face.

"This, this is fake..." he stammered, then nodded emphatically, "Yes, it's fake, it's a counterfeit I bought, it only cost twenty-five yuan!"

He chuckled and said, "With my family's resources, how could I possibly afford the real thing!"

"Really?" Ye Mo raised an eyebrow, not saying whether he believed it or not, but instead took out his phone as if to make a call, saying, "In that case, I'll have no choice but to call the police and let them check if your watch is real..."

"No!"

"Don't want--"

Two overlapping voices rang out, one a man's and the other a woman's. Suddenly, two figures rushed out of the inner room: a woman and a girl of about four or five years old.

The woman rushed out with her child, and immediately knelt down before Ye Mo, along with the child.

"Please, don't call the police! What will happen to me and my daughter if you call the police?" The woman cried, holding her child in her arms. As she cried, the child cried along with her.

The woman cried out, "Brother, my husband really didn't mean to lie to you, he really had no choice..."

She looked at the child in her arms and said, "This is my daughter, Cancan. She's only five years old, but she already has a heart condition. The doctor said she needs surgery, which will cost a lot of money. My mother is also hospitalized because of her illness... We've really tried every possible way to raise money, but we had no other choice but to do this..."

"Waaah, Mommy," the child in her arms whimpered softly.

The child had a large head, but his body looked incredibly thin and frail; he certainly looked sickly.

The woman hugged him, tears streaming down her face like a faucet. Holding the child and doting on Li Kui, she suddenly began to kowtow violently, pleading, "Brother, we're so sorry, we've truly wronged you! Please forgive my husband!"

The girl beside her also kowtowed to Li Kui, calling out in a childish voice, "Uncle, I'm sorry, please forgive my father."

Li Kui: "..."

Throughout history, women and children have always been easily pitied, but now, with this mother and daughter crying so miserably, the level of pity has doubled.