Unaware of their pending doom, Rui Wang saw Qiao Li in tears and was filled with proudness.
Just now Qiao Li was acting like a lioness and now she was acting like a scared cat.
As the saying goes, a cat can act like a tiger, till the tiger appears.
With a smug expression, Rui Wang said,
"As for my husband, even though he is not good in business, he at least cos ho daily and asks Qin about her day. He even praises her, if her rank increases.
What about you? Did your father praise you? Did he ever say a word of encouragent to you?"
Qiao Li who was faking her tears till now, suddenly felt like crying for real.
Her eyes turned a bit red.
Even though she didn’t want to admit but she was indeed a bit jealous.
Usually, Qiao Li would have looked at the ceiling to stop herself from crying but today she wanted Qiao Heng to know that she was hurt.
She was hurt not only by Rui Wang and Shi Qin but by his behavior too!
Hence Qiao Li lightly glanced at Qiao Heng who just happened to look in her direction and said,
"Aunt Rui, it’s not like this...My dad loves ..."
Shi Qin felt that sothing was amiss.
Why did Qiao Li suddenly sound so familiar?
(Author: Oh! She is trying to copy you.)
No! She was acting pitiful.
Shi Qin decided to caution her mother.
However before she could caution her, Rui Wang sneered and said,
"Oh really? When was the last ti, your father visited your school to know about your progress? When was the last ti he clicked a photo with you?
When was the last ti your father asked about your well-being?"
Qiao Li’s closed her eyes and said,
"My father...father..."
Rui Wang ruthlessly interrupted her,
"Shut up! Just like how your father doesn’t like your mother, he doesn’t like you too."
"Rui Wang!" Qiao Heng’s voice sounded.
He said her na very loudly proving, how much angry he was.
Rui Wang and Shi Qin’s face turned pale and they turned around to look at Qiao Heng.
Qiao Heng walked in with a dark face.
He looked at Rui Wang and Shi Qin coldly, before walking toward Qiao Li.
When he reached in front of Qiao Li and saw the tears in her eyes, he pulled her into his embrace and patted her head as if he were coaxing a child,
"Li, don’t cry. Don’t cry."
Qiao Li who was still trying to stop herself from crying, cried and complained at the sa ti,
"Dad...they...they are saying....you don’t like ...Dad do you really not care for ?"
Qiao Heng said with a helpless face,
"It’s not like that Li. I do care for you."
"But...but...they are saying the right thing, you never...you never check on my progress..."
"Who said that?" Qiao Heng said with a raised eyebrow.
"She." Qiao Li pointed at Rui Wang.
Qiao Heng looked at Rui Wang coldly and said,
"Mrs. Shi, do you know that spreading rumors is called slander? I can sue you for it."
If his tone was a little playful then, Rui Wang would have laughed.
How could normal words be regarded as slander?
But the one who said it was Qiao Heng.
If he said he would sue her, then he might really sue her for her words.
Rui Wang coughed and said,
"Heng’er I wasn’t lying to her..."
"You lied." Qiao Heng said and all the people present were stunned.
Qiao Heng said with confidence,
"I call my daughter’s heart teacher every week to check on her progress. I even knew that she ranked second in her class and entire standard."
This ti Qiao Li was stunned.
Her father checks on her progress.
He doesn’t neglect her!
But when Qiao Heng continued his words, Qiao Li received a bigger shock,
"I indeed haven’t clicked a photo with my daughter for a long ti but I do have her photos."
Saying so, he took out his phone and opened the photos app.
Qiao Li who was standing beside Qiao Heng saw that he had an album for all the mbers of the Qiao Family.
However, the most highlighted ones were hers and Mrs. Qiao’s.
Then Qiao Heng showed various photos of her.
In so she was eating desserts, in so, she was talking and in so, she was laughing.
There was also so from her Weibo.
But what caught her eyes was the photos that even she didn’t have.
Photos of her winning so competition, photos of her teasing her friends.
God!
Qiao Li’s eyes brimd with tears and she heard her father say,
"I was always there Li. I just didn’t want to stop you from living your life. I didn’t know that you would end up thinking that I don’t care for you."
Qiao Li sobbed and hugged Qiao Heng tightly, hearing him say,
"As for checking on your health. I have your reports of all the monthly body checks your school conducts. If you don’t believe you can visit my study, and in the left drawer of the cabinet."
Yu Holea suddenly stood up, and hurriedly entered the study, and took out the reports.
For a minute she touched the file and looked at the file with a complicated expression.
Taking a deep breath, Yu Holea went out of the room.
In a surprised voice, Yu Holea said,
"Wow! Uncle Qiao is telling the truth."
Then she waved the reports in the air.
Rui Wang and Shi Qin looked in disbelief.
Shi Qin especially felt jealous.
Others didn’t know but the truth was her father hated her.
The reason why he asked about her daily progress was so that he could nitpick or taunt her.
In fact if possible he wanted her dead so that his illegitimate son could inherit his property.
As for having her photo?
Shi Qin was sure that his entire photos app might be filled with inappropriate photos of him and his mistress.
Shi Qin tried to take a deep breath in order to not cry and looked at Qiao Heng.
How she wished, she had a father like him.
Qiao Li smiled slightly when she heard Yu Holea’s words.
Her dad...is so cute!
But more than cute, what she saw today made her look at everything with a different perspective.
Qiao Heng looked at Rui Wang with a cold gaze,
"Now shall we proceed with how you just now insulted my daughter? I will call the police in order to deal with you."
Then he took out his phone to call police.
"No!" Shi Qin said hurriedly.
"Uncle I apologize on my mother’s behalf! She ant no harm!"
However, Qiao Heng ignored her pleas and started dialing.
"Uncle! Uncle, don’t you like ? Don’t you always ask Qiao Li to follow in my footsteps! Please Uncle, for my sake leave my mother."
Usually, this line might have hurt Qiao Li, but today before she could feel any pain, Qiao Heng answered,
"Follow your footsteps? When did I say that?"
Silence.
For a minute Shi Qin couldn’t believe her ears.
She asked in disbelief,
"But...but.."
"Shi Qin." Qiao Heng called her na out in a stern voice and said,
"I never wanted my daughter to beco a pretentious person like you. I only wanted her to beco a bit scheming like you.
After all, my innocent daughter needs to learn that there are many scheming people like you out there."
Shi Qin’s face turned pale while Qiao Li’s heart burst into joy.
For the first ti, she felt that Shi Qin was pitiful.
Shi Qin always showed off in front of her and claid that she was the child, that Qiao Heng admired the most.
However, to her dismay, Qiao Heng outright said that he admired Shi Qin’s scheming behavior.
What admiration? He was clearly calling her scheming!
Qiao Li suddenly hugged Qiao Heng tightly and said in a sweet voice,
"Dad... thank you!"
That was all Qiao Li could say.
Right now she couldn’t express her feelings in words.
She was feeling thrilled, sad, and liberated, and felt like crying too.
At the sa ti, she felt shaful.
She always thought that Qiao Heng was the worst father but today she realized how good he was to her.
Tears dripped down her cheeks but she didn’t feel sad this ti.
Instead, she felt joy.
Joy and relief.
She even felt like floating.
Yu Holea looked at the protective Qiao Heng and koalas like Qiao Li.
Her heart was filled with strange emotion.
And why she was calling it strange?
Well, it was an emotion she never felt before.
How she wished that she could have a father like Qiao Heng.
How she wished that when soone was bullying her, a father like Qiao Heng would appear and take a stand for her.
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