[Oh dear, if something really happens to this child, these sisters will be in big trouble!]
[Heh, I said before that this woman was too cold-blooded and aggressive, and you all said she was rational. Now look what happened, she's driving that woman's daughter to her death. Is this what you wanted to see?]
[Shut up! This couple is a bunch of liars. No matter how difficult their circumstances are, that's no excuse for them to scam people. Don't try to defend them!]
"Waaaaah..."
The child was still crying, and Mei Yi was holding her, looking extremely anxious. Hong Youtian, on the other hand, glared at Ye Mo and the others with resentment and anger, indicating that if anything happened to the child, they would definitely hold them accountable.
Suddenly, Hong Youtian's angry gaze met a pair of clear, calm eyes. He shuddered, feeling as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him.
What's going on? Why isn't this woman panicking at all?
Hong Youtian suddenly felt a little panicked, as if something had happened beyond his expectations.
Ye Mo, however, remained remarkably calm, because 888 was shouting in her mind.
[Host, that girl does have a heart condition, but it's not serious. With proper care, she can likely recover!] 888 was very angry. [She cried because that woman pinched her several times; she cried from the pain!]
888 dropped a bombshell, saying: [Host, this girl isn't even the couple's child; they bought her!]
Ye Mo's expression hardened.
She stared intently at the woman who was crying while holding the child, then suddenly strode forward, pulled the child from her arms, and held it in her own.
"Waaaaah..." Mei Yi, who was crying miserably, never expected that the child in her arms would be taken away. She looked up in astonishment, her face filled with shock and tears still clinging to the corners of her eyes, making her look somewhat comical.
She looked up and saw Ye Mo looking down at her, his sharp gaze making her feel a little flustered.
"What are you doing? Why are you trying to take my child?" Mei Yi shouted, reaching out to snatch the child back.
Ye Mo took a step back and reached out to lift the girl's clothes, immediately revealing a patch of bruises on her waist, causing everyone to gasp in shock.
Ye Mo coldly observed the couple, whose expressions were already somewhat panicked, and said, "I knew it! That's why the child was crying so pitifully. You really didn't hold back at all."
As she spoke, she let the child rest on her shoulder and gently patted the child's back. Under these circumstances, the girl's crying gradually subsided and finally became less intense.
"Fine, so that's why the child suddenly started crying! It was you pinching her!" Niu Guangping looked at Mei Yi in disbelief. "Didn't you say you loved your daughter the most? How could you be so cruel as to pinch her like that? Are you even human?"
With their facade of dignity ripped off, the expressions on Hong Youtian and his wife's faces finally turned ugly. At this moment, they finally stopped pretending.
"This is my daughter. I can treat her however I want, what's it to you?" Mei Yi said gruffly, reaching out to snatch the child away. "Give me back my daughter!"
Ye Mo took another step back and shouted to the people around him, "Stop her!"
Upon hearing this, Hu Pingping stepped forward without hesitation and swiftly twisted the woman named Mei Yi's hands behind her back.
"What are you doing?" Hong Youtian shouted from the side, questioning, "In broad daylight, you want to hit someone? If you do this again, I'll call the police. You'll go to jail for this!"
"Call the police? Pshaw~" A sneer suddenly came from the side; it was Ye Mo. Her icy gaze fell on the couple, and she said in a chilling voice, "What a coincidence, I was just about to call the police myself..."
After saying that, she turned her head slightly and said to Shen Yan beside her, " Brother Shen, call the police right now and tell them that there are people committing online fraud here, and even trafficking people!"
Upon hearing this, not to mention the others, the expressions of Hong Youtian and his wife changed drastically, and they looked at Ye Mo as if he were a ghost.
"What do you mean by buying and selling people?" Shen Yan asked in astonishment.
Ye Mo sneered and said, "Because I suspect that this child isn't the couple's, but rather one they bought..."
Shen Yan: "..."
After a few seconds of blank expression, he came to his senses and immediately picked up his phone to dial 110 without any hesitation—he knew Ye Mo's capabilities, and if she did this, it was most likely true.
Damn, they just came to ask for money, how did things get so complicated?
On the other side, seeing this scene, Hong Youtian's eyes widened in fury, and he instinctively rushed over to stop Shen Yan from calling the police.
"Don't call the police!" he shouted.
Seeing this, Li Kui and Niu Guangping instinctively stopped him.
Niu Guangping hissed, looked at Ye Mo, and said incredulously, " Miss Ye, this guy's reaction is so strong, could this child really be one they bought?"
Everyone could see how flustered Hong Youtian and his wife were when Ye Mo mentioned "human trafficking," even more so than when Ye Mo and his team exposed their online fraud. There was something fishy going on.
Wow, could they have really run into some big case?
"... Nonsense!" Hong Youtian's face turned pale, and he denied it without even thinking—even if it were true, he wouldn't dare admit it.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, I admit that I dressed as a woman and deceived people online, but you don't need to accuse us of human trafficking. What you're doing is really going too far."
He glared at Ye Mo and said, "Give me back my child!"
Mei Yi's hands were twisted behind her back by Hu Pingping, and her face showed a pained expression, but she couldn't care less. She turned to the child in Ye Mo's arms and called out, "... Cancan, Cancan, come to Mommy!"
He soothed her gently.
The girl looked at Ye Mo, then at Mei Yi, and called out blankly, "Mom..."
Mei Yi nodded vigorously, forcing a smile, and said, "Yes, come to Mommy! Those people are bad people, come to Mommy!"
The child looked bewildered. Ye Mo reached out and pressed her head against his chest, preventing her from looking at Mei Yi, then said, "Whether this child is yours or not, we'll know when the police arrive..."
She gave a half-smile, "Paternity tests are so convenient these days. A single test won't take long, and we'll soon know whether the child is yours or not."
Hong Youtian and his wife. "..."
"Yes, I lied to you online!" Hong Youtian made up his mind. He gritted his teeth and said, "I admit it. I lied to you about my elderly mother being sick and my child needing heart surgery. In reality, my family isn't short of money..."
Upon hearing this, the crowd erupted in uproar.
"You just want us to return what we cheated you out of, right? Fine, it's just a few tens of thousands of yuan, I'll give it back to you!" Hong Youtian continued, then looked at Ye Mo and pleaded, "But this child really is our daughter, I really didn't lie to you about that, so please, please give the child back to us!"
"This child is shy and timid, and she really does have a heart condition..." He looked at Ye Mo cautiously, tears welling in his eyes. "Without her mother holding her, she doesn't feel safe, and if she gets emotional, she'll have a heart attack and might even faint!"
He kept rambling on and on.
Ye Mo wasn't stupid; he could tell from the undertones that the man wanted Ye Mo to hand over the child. He Mingming previously been crying and putting on an act, refusing to Ye Mo the money he'd swindled from Li Kui and Niu Guangping, but now, to get his child back, he was willing to agree, and even seemed quite eager.