Tang Ye still wanted to rush forward, but Tang Yu held him back tightly.
Tang Zhongcheng stood up and reprimanded.
"Sit down and talk, you think fighting shows you're capable!"
Tang Xiaomin plopped down on the sofa, looking defiant.
At this moment, Tang Yiyi had already showered and changed her clothes, transforming back into that delicate doll.
Zhang Meiyu asked Tang Xiaomin, "Xiaomin, Yiyi was bullied. She said it was your idea. Is that true?"
Zhang Meiyu, uncharacteristically, managed to stay calm.
They were all composed.
Only Tang Ye, eager to fight for Tang Yiyi, wished he could kill her.
Under Tang Yiyi's resentful gaze, Tang Xiaomin said faintly.
"I saw her being bullied by a large group of people. There were many people there, so I stepped in. That's when they stopped bullying her."
Tang Yiyi stood up and retorted, "Tang Xiaomin, you instigated them to bully me! You gave me a red card, and now you dare not admit it?"
Faced with Tang Yiyi's accusations, Tang Xiaomin was not to be outdone.
"Tang Yiyi, empty words prove nothing. You say I gave you a red card and instigated people to bully you, then show me the evidence!"
Tang Ye said angrily, "Yiyi came back covered in mud..."
Tang Xiaomin interrupted Tang Ye.
"A little mud doesn't prove anything. You're good at acting, aren't you? Pretending to have mud on your body."
"Without evidence, it's slander."
Tang Yiyi cried, "Dozens of people saw it. Are you still going to deny it?"
It wasn't denial, but the fact was that Tang Xiaomin hadn't laid a finger on Tang Yiyi.
There was no evidence to prove she had bullied anyone.
Besides, the reason the red card game could proceed so unscrupulously was because Ye Lingyun had a team behind him constantly eliminating evidence.
Finding proof was as difficult as reaching the heavens.
"Who saw it? Do you have witnesses or physical evidence?"
"I..."
Tang Yiyi was speechless; she truly couldn't produce anything.
Seeing that she couldn't speak, Zhang Meiyu assumed Tang Yiyi was deliberately smearing Tang Xiaomin and said with a cold face.
"Yiyi, don't make wild accusations without evidence."
Tang Yu looked at Tang Yiyi with disappointment. It wasn't the first time she had lied.
Tang Zhongcheng shook his head.
"Yiyi, how can you wrongly accuse Xiaomin without any proof?"
Wrongly accuse?
She had been wronged so badly by Tang Xiaomin, and her family wouldn't stand up for her, instead calling her a liar?
Tang Yiyi had never felt so strongly that her family's favoritism towards Tang Xiaomin had reached an irredeemable point.
Looking at the distrust in her family's eyes, Tang Yiyi felt an unprecedented collapse and despair.
"Dad, Mom, I'm really not lying," Tang Yiyi said excitedly.
"Tang Xiaomin gave me the red card, and she instigated everyone to bully me. I'm really not lying!"
...
After being severely bullied, Tang Yiyi's mental state was not good.
At this moment, her uncontrollable excitement made her seem almost frantic.
"Dad, Mom, I really didn't lie. The one who lied is Tang Xiaomin!"
Tang Ye also said, "Mom and Dad, you can't just believe Tang Xiaomin and not Yiyi. Don't you remember how badly Yiyi was treated when she came back today?"
Tang Ye's words had a slight effect.
Zhang Meiyu said, "Stop talking. I'll go to the school tomorrow and ask myself, and then we'll know."
Thus, no one could say anything more.
Tang Ye, still unwilling to let it go, said, "'Tang Xiaomin, you injured my face. I have an important performance tomorrow, and I can't perform now. You must give me an explanation for this."
In response, Tang Xiaomin simply shook her head.
In front of everyone, she brazenly mocked Tang Ye.
"If you're not capable, don't pick fights. Otherwise, you deserve to get beaten."
"Tang Xiaomin, you've ruined my performance tomorrow!" Tang Ye argued.
"Heh?" Tang Xiaomin let out a mocking cold laugh.
"You've been in this business for years and still rely on your looks? How many more years can that face stay young?"
"Tang Xiaomin..."
Tang Ye, enraged, rushed towards Tang Xiaomin again, completely forgetting how strong Tang Xiaomin's wrist was.
*Slap!*
Tang Xiaomin slapped Tang Ye, sending him flying to the ground, both sides of his face swollen symmetrically.
Zhang Meiyu, furious, stood up and roared.
"That's enough! What's with all this fighting!"
"Tang Ye, you're the older brother. How can you fight with your sister?"
The main issue was that he couldn't win even after fighting.
Tang Ye gritted his teeth in anger at being scolded.
"Fine, you're all siding with Tang Xiaomin now and don't care about Yiyi anymore, right?"
"I'm telling you, if you don't care, I do!"
Tang Ye said to Tang Yiyi.
"Yiyi, don't worry. Even if everyone in this family sides with Tang Xiaomin, your second brother will stand by you. Let's go."
Tang Ye pulled Tang Yiyi, and they stormed off to the second floor.
...
Tang Yiyi's complaint was in vain.
Tang Xiaomin picked up her bag and returned to her room, too lazy to sit with the Tang family.
At 9:30 PM, Ye Fengxing called Tang Xiaomin.
Tang Xiaomin hung up, but he called persistently.
Tang Xiaomin had no choice but to answer.
"What is it?"
Her tone was still as cool as ever.
Ye Fengxing felt the distance Tang Xiaomin was putting between them, and it made him uncomfortable.
"You haven't been to the company lately. Is there something you're not satisfied with?"
There was nothing to do at the company anyway, just sleeping all day. Tang Xiaomin suspected that Ye Fengxing's offer for her to work at Ye's was just a pretext to keep her with him.
"I need to prepare for the school anniversary program. I'm resigning."
Resign!
Ye Fengxing knew Tang Xiaomin's impetuous nature well.
"Then, why don't you busy yourself with this for now and come back to the company later? Soon, there will be a new project, and I hope you'll still be the designer."
Tang Xiaomin had taken benefits from him, so she couldn't easily refuse him.
"Alright."
The call ended abruptly.
Tang Xiaomin thought about it, and after Tang Yiyi's issue was resolved, she still needed to break off the engagement with the Ye family.
The next day.
Tang Yiyi was traumatized and dared not go to school alone.
When Tang Xiaomin left, Tang Yiyi was waiting in the living room for Zhang Meiyu to accompany her, hoping Zhang Meiyu would help her get justice.
She thought Tang Yiyi had a stronger mindset, but she couldn't handle a little conflict. Sudan Novel Network.
In the dean's office, the dean listened to Tang Yiyi's account of what happened and looked troubled.
The dean quietly said to Zhang Meiyu.
"Mrs. Tang, the red card was a game played by Young Master Ye Lingyun. It was just a prank. There were definitely many participants. If we were to pursue this matter seriously, you would offend many powerful individuals, which would not be worth the effort."
So, Tang Yiyi had indeed been bullied.
Zhang Meiyu then asked, "Then won't you intervene?"