Chapter 213 Severing Relationship

"Oh my god, what's going on? How can a father kneel down to his daughter?"

"She's dressed quite nicely. Her dad's clothes are all tattered and look so poor. I didn't realize she's so good at pretending."

"What should I do? Should I call the instructor?"

Qiao Susu heard the discussions around her getting louder and louder, but her brows remained unchanged.

She looked at the kneeling man calmly, as if she were looking at a stranger. She thought she would feel embarrassed or panicked, or even sad, but she found that she had no emotion at all.

If Qiao Songfan approached her privately and politely asked for her help, she might consider it. But she knew this cowardly and cunning man too well. He thought that by kneeling in public and putting pressure on her, she would take him directly to see Guan Weizhi.

Qiao Suisui sneered.

Gu Mengze, who was at the back of the crowd, saw the scene in front of him, frowned, squeezed to the front, and used his hand to block the phone of the classmate who was recording the video.

"What are you filming? Is it interesting?"

Although Gu Mengze was a handsome guy, he was a bit sullen when he looked like he was not to be messed with. Therefore, several students quietly put away their phones.

Qiao Songfan kowtowed to Qiao Suisui repeatedly, as if he were worshipping Guanyin Bodhisattva, and each kowtow was extremely pious. It was so sad and pitiful that many people were filled with sympathy and said to Qiao Suisui, "Hurry up and help your father up."

"Yeah, yeah, you're just going to sit there and watch?"

Some even questioned from a moral high ground: "He's your father after all, why are you like this?"

Qiao Susu watched coldly and accepted his bows without any fear, ignoring the doubts around her.

She asked calmly, "Have you had enough?"

Qiao Songfan was stunned for a moment, then continued to act pitiful: "Sui Sui, you haven't been home for a long time, I'm worried about you. Come home with Dad."

Once these words were spoken, they were misleading to everyone. The current situation was that an old father was earnestly asking his rebellious and ignorant daughter to go home.

Suddenly, discussions broke out in the crowd, and even Gu Mengze frowned hesitantly.

Qiao Susu waited patiently until the situation calmed down, and then she gathered her emotions, and then her tears came.

She lowered her eyes, a helpless smile on her face, and said in a voice that everyone could hear clearly: "When you stop gambling, come find me again."

"Wow—"

The crowd exploded again.

The students who were just standing and talking without any back pain turned around and said, "Wow, it turns out he is an old gambler."

"Oh my god, it's such a miserable life to have a father like this."

There was a flash of pity in Gu Mengze's eyes.

Qiao Suisui didn't give Qiao Songfan a chance to speak, and continued crying, "I can't go home yet because I have to work in my spare time. Go away and don't ask me for money anymore." She took a step back and pretended to cover her bag, crying bitterly, "I don't have any money, and I wouldn't give it to you even if I did. This is all for mom's medical treatment and medicine, and my brother's tuition. I really can't give it to you."

“No, you.”

Qiao Songfan opened his mouth and before he could finish his words, someone in the crowd couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "Call security!"

College students are a group that is extremely easy to incite and exploit, because at this age they have not seen too many social dangers, their values ​​are clearly black and white, and they have not been beaten by society. This is the period when their sense of justice is overflowing.

So the classmates who were questioning Qiao Susu just now have spontaneously held hands and stood in front of her.

Gu Mengze walked over, grabbed her wrist and led her out through the back door. Qiao Songfan tried desperately to explain, but he was surrounded by a group of students and couldn't catch up.

The two ran out of the teaching building and hid in the shade behind the school playground.

"Are you okay?" Gu Mengze asked.

Qiao Susu shook her head, pulled her hand back and thanked him.

Gu Mengze responded, looking away for a while, then looking at her, not knowing what to do with his hands and feet.

"Well." He organized his words and tried to comfort her, "Don't be too sad. If your dad bothers you again, you can call me."

Qiao Susu looked at him strangely, rolled her eyes, lowered her eyes and smiled.

"You want to give me your phone number?"

"No, that's not what I meant. I really want to help," Gu Mengze explained, and felt that there was nothing wrong with this. He paused for a moment, then took out his mobile phone, unlocked it, opened the dial pad and handed it to Qiao Susu, but his eyes looked elsewhere.

He said, "Put your phone number in."

Qiao Susu laughed and thought to herself that although he was a handsome guy, he was indeed not very good at actively pursuing girls.

She pushed his phone back and didn't leave her number. Instead, she thanked him earnestly and said, "Thank you for your concern, but I can handle it myself."

Gu Mengze was taken aback by the straightforward and tactful rejection. He stared at the slender girl before him, puzzled as to why she was different from the other girls. Anyone else would have screamed excitedly or shyly complied. But she simply rejected him calmly and openly, leaving him with an indescribable sense of loss.

"What if your dad comes to trouble you again in the future?"

Qiao Sui Sui corrected him, "He's not my dad." Then she brushed off the leaves on her skirt, stood up gracefully, and said, "And it won't happen again."

Because she wasn't going to let that happen again.

There are some things that she should put to an end.

That night, Qiao Susu returned to the Qiao family.

Without a word, she slammed a bank card and an agreement on the table.

The money in the bank card was what she had earned from odd jobs over the years. Previously, she had used it to save for her tuition. Now that she had received investment from Zhonghe Fund, she had a lot more money on hand, so she took out this money as alimony to pay back to the Qiao family.

"There's a total of 30,000 yuan here. It's not much, but I'll continue to transfer money to the card as a token of my gratitude for supporting me over the years. Until I'm fully repaid."

Then, she tapped the agreement on the table with her fingertips and said to Qiao Songfan, "Don't you want to invest? I will explain your situation to Guan Weizhi, but I can't guarantee that I will be able to help you."

A look of joy appeared on Qiao Songfan's face, and he wanted to shake her hand to express his gratitude, but Qiao Susu ruthlessly dodged him. Qiao's mother also glared at Qiao Songfan.

"You're thanking me too soon. I haven't finished yet. You can connect with Guan Weizhi through me, but I have one condition. Sign this letter of commitment. From now on, I will have nothing to do with the Qiao family. If you become rich, I won't ask for a penny. Similarly, if you become poor, I won't ask for anything either. We will never have anything to do with each other again."

Qiao Jiming looked up at her, his face showing an uncontrollable joy.

Mother Qiao's face changed drastically, and she asked in disbelief, "Are you crazy? What nonsense are you talking about? We are a family. Listen to what you say, do you think it makes sense?"

Qiao Suisui smiled, and with one sentence, she made Qiao's mother feel as if she was falling into an ice cave. "Mom, you have been playing the role of the Qiao family for so many years, have they really accepted you?"

"I don't want to care whether you want to continue or not, but I won't play this 'family' game with you anymore." Her tone was very calm, as if she was talking about a trivial matter.

For a moment, the entire living room fell silent.

Qiao Jiming walked up, handed the pen to Qiao Songfan, and said, "Sign it. Don't you want the company more than the three of us?"

Qiao Songfan's old face flushed red, as if a silent slap had landed on it. He looked at Qiao's mother who was still in a daze, gritted his teeth, and signed with a pen.

The last stroke of the pen also symbolizes that Qiao Susu has truly escaped from this family.

She packed her things, said, "I'll let you know when to talk to Guan Weizhi," and turned and left. As she left the apartment building, Qiao Jiming chased after her.

"Sister, I want to tell you something."

Qiao Sui Sui turned around and was about to ask what was wrong, but when she saw the familiar shadow behind Qiao Jiming, her pupils suddenly shrank and she subconsciously called out:

"Lan Ze?"

(End of this chapter)